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+Title: Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading
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+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 435px;">
+<img src="images/frontis.jpg" width="435" height="600" alt="Christ the Shepherd" />
+</div>
+<hr class='chap' /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<h1><span class='smcap'><span class='big'>Young Folks' Bible</span></span><br />
+<span class='small'>IN WORDS OF EASY READING:</span><br />
+
+THE SWEET STORIES OF GOD'S WORD<br />
+<span class='small'>IN THE LANGUAGE OF CHILDHOOD</span></h1>
+
+<div class='center'><span class='small'>AND</span><br />
+
+In the Beautiful Delineations of Christian Art.<br />
+
+<span class='small'>THE WHOLE DESIGNED TO</span><br />
+
+<span class="smcap">Impress the Mind and Heart of the Youngest Readers, and Kindle a
+Genuine Love for the Book of Books</span>.<br />
+<br />
+<span class='small'>By</span><br />
+
+<span class='author'>JOSEPHINE POLLARD,</span><br />
+<span class='small'>Author of "History of the Old Testament," "History of the New Testament," etc., etc.</span><br />
+
+&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+<span class='small'>WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev.</span> W. H. MILBURN, D. D.,<br />
+<span class='small'>TO WHICH IS ADDED</span><br />
+<span class='big'>THE CHILD AND THE BIBLE,</span><br />
+<br />
+By PROF. DAVID SWING,<br />
+<br />
+<span class='small'>AND</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">An Address to Children</span>:<br />
+<br />
+<span class='big'>THE BIBLE THE BOOK FOR THE YOUNG,</span><br />
+<br />
+By REV. JOHN H. BARROWS, D. D.<br />
+<br />
+&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+NEARLY 200 STRIKING ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS AND WORLD-FAMOUS<br />
+MASTER-PIECES OF SACRED ART,<br />
+<br />
+<span class='small'>AND WITH</span><br />
+<br />
+MAGNIFICENT COLORED PLATES.<br />
+<br />
+&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap"><span class='small'>Chicago and New York</span>:</span><br />
+<span class='big'>R. S. Peale &amp; Company.</span><br />
+1890.<br />
+</div><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<div class='copyright'>
+Copyright<br />
+By JOSEPH L. BLAMIRE.<br />
+1888.<br />
+<br />
+Copyright<br />
+By R. S. PEALE &amp; CO.<br />
+1889.<br />
+</div><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>PREFACE.</h2>
+
+
+<p>The word Bible is from the Greek, and means
+<span class="smcap">The Book</span>. It is made up of several small books,
+and when bound in two parts is known as the Old
+Testament and the New Testament. A Testament
+is a will; and the Bible is God's will made for man's
+good, and for his guide through life. The Old Testament
+tells of God's love and care for the Jews, and
+His thought of Christ can be traced through all its
+pages. There is a good deal in the Bible that a child
+cannot understand, and the queer names make it
+very hard reading.</p>
+
+<p>It has been the Author's aim to tell the story
+simply, and in Bible language, so that the little ones
+can read it themselves, and learn to love and prize
+it as the best of all books.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+J. P.<br />
+</div><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/preface.jpg" width="400" height="400" alt="Madonna and child" />
+</div><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Introduction.</span></h2>
+
+<div class='center'><span class="smcap">By Rev. William Henry Milburn</span>, D. D.</div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>NO man of his time filled a larger space in the public eye of this
+country than John Randolph of Roanoke. His eccentricities,
+audacity and brilliancy,&mdash;his pride of birth and race, fearlessness
+and self-assertion,&mdash;his incisive and trenchant speeches set off with sparkling
+wit, keen satire, fierce invective, clothed in perfect English, and
+uttered with the style of a master, his sharp criticisms of the faults and
+short-comings of his fellow-Congressmen, which gained for him the title,
+"schoolmaster of Congress," together with his political consistency and
+fitfulness of temper, invested all his movements and sayings with a
+peculiar charm for the people. In his earliest years he had been carefully
+taught by his beautiful mother, the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, the Ten
+Commandments, and many parts of God's Word, until he had them by
+heart, and yet, in his haughty youth and early manhood he strove to set
+at naught these teachings: furnished himself with a "whole body of infidelity,"
+as he styled his collection of the writings of Voltaire and other
+French authors, as well as British, who strove to abolish the Bible, 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 Life, and to jeer with flout and scoff at all he had learned
+from his mother's lips. But later on he confessed, with heart-breaking
+sobs and bitter tears, that with all his arrogance and insolence, his stern
+resolve to become and continue a Deist, he had never been able to put
+aside for a single day or night the lessons taught him by his mother, and
+that the hallowed forms of sound words, learned on her lap or at her
+knee, had dwelt with him, and were ever sounding in his ears, to admonish,
+counsel and reprove. There have been few more pathetic scenes
+than that in which Randolph came to die; a gaunt old man, old before<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span>
+his time; worn out by misery, shrivelled and haggard, sitting upright in
+his bed, covered by a blanket, even his head enveloped and his hat on top
+of it; unutterable despair looking out at his eyes, his pinched lips and
+squeaking voice uttering, "Let me see it; get a dictionary; find me the
+word Remorse." A dictionary could not be found. "Write it; I must
+see it," he almost shrieked with failing voice. The word was written on
+his visiting card below his name; he demanded that it should be written
+above as well. The card was handed to him. "Remorse, John Randolph
+of Roanoke, Remorse." With horror in his face and that card in
+his hand, his eyes staring at the word, he breathed his last. From that
+mournful death-bed seemed to come floating the solemn words, "Take
+fast hold of instruction; keep her; let her not go, for she is thy life,"
+and "He that sinneth against wisdom wrongeth his own soul."</div>
+
+<p>Long centuries ago, a young man of aristocratic birth, handsome
+person, polished manners, brilliant and highly cultivated intellect, was
+walking, on a day in the reign of the Emperor Julian, by the bank
+of the river Orontes, not far from the stately city of Antioch, the
+Paris of that age,&mdash;and saw something floating in the stream. The
+branch of a tree enabled him to drag it ashore; it proved to be a copy of
+the sacred Scriptures; Julian, the mad master of the world, had issued
+an edict, annexed to which were heavy penalties, that all copies of that
+book should be destroyed. The young man who drew the manuscript to
+shore had been taught the lessons of that volume from a child, by his
+pious mother, Anthusa; but he had thrown off the yoke of his mother's
+faith; had become a devotee of heathen philosophy, poetry and rhetoric,
+and at the same time steeped himself in the licentious pleasures and dissipations
+of the Grove of Daphne, the Hippodrome and Theatre, and resolved
+that "the man Christ Jesus should not reign over him." He
+opened the parchment, some words on the page caught his eye; they
+were familiar, yet shone with a new light and were armed with irresistible
+power: he read on; his mother's prayers were answered; he embraced
+the truth, bowed his neck to the yoke he had foresworn, and the volume
+he rescued from the flood became a treasure-trove for the world,&mdash;through<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span>
+fifteen centuries alike in the east and west,&mdash;that man has been
+known as St. John Chrysostom, the "Mouth of Gold," one of the most
+saintly and eloquent preachers, whose life, genius, sufferings and death for
+conscience's sake adorned the history of mankind.</p>
+
+<p>Not far from the same time, a young man bathed in tears lay writhing
+in agony under a fig tree in the garden of his house at Milan. His
+devout mother, Monica, in their Numidian home, had taught him the
+way of life written in God's Word; but as he grew to manhood he strove
+to shake off the influence and authority of her instruction; became a libertine,
+reached forth to grasp the crown of heathen eloquence and learning,
+and for more than ten years wrought steadily to undo the sacred
+work his mother had performed for him as a child. But the lesson she
+had taught him lay deeper than his surging passions, imperious intellect,
+and haughty will, and because of their power over him he could find no
+rest night or day. He journeyed to Carthage, Rome, Milan, the chief
+cities of the western world, to study art and eloquence, to drench his soul
+with the pleasures of sense and lay the ghost of his disquiet; but in vain.
+In his anguish under the fig tree he heard, or seemed to hear, again and
+again, "Take it up and read, Take it up and read." Springing to his
+feet, he ran to a friend near by who was reading the Word. Seizing the
+volume, his eyes rested on the words, "Let us walk honestly as in the
+day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness,
+not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and
+make not provisions for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof." The birth-pangs
+of his conversion were ended; he found peace in believing; and
+that incident makes an era in the history of the world, for that man
+was none other than Saint Augustine, the influence of whose writings has
+swayed with more might than that of an imperial sceptre the destinies of
+western Christendom for ages. "Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings
+of mine and doeth them," saith the Lord, "I will liken him unto a
+wise man which built his house upon a rock; and the rain descended,
+and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house; and
+it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span>
+these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish
+man which built his house upon the sand; and the rains descended,
+and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house and
+it fell, and great was the fall of it." Woe to Randolph! he heard and
+would not, and his house fell, and great was the fall of it. Mankind with
+one voice calls Augustine and Chrysostom blessed; they heard, obeyed,
+and their houses stand forever; they were built upon the rock. "Their
+Rock is not as our Rock, our enemies themselves being judges" was the
+boast of Israel at an early day. With how much fuller emphasis may
+Christendom utter it to-day. Compare India with Britain, China with
+the United States, and after all other forces are measured and allowed,
+it will be found that the significant and self-renewing causes for the superiority
+of the western nations over the eastern are the presence, authority
+and influence of the Old and New Testament. "And he shewed me
+a pure river of water of life clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne
+of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either
+side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of
+fruits and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were
+for the healing of the nations."</p>
+
+<p>In this beautiful book, Miss Pollard, with admirable tact and skill,
+has made a path by which the children may draw near to that river and
+drink of the water of life; and the artists whose genius has been laid under
+such effective contribution by the liberality of the publisher, will help
+the little ones to gather the leaves and pluck the fruit of that tree.</p>
+
+<p>Every home in the land blessed by the presence of boys and girls will
+be illumined and enriched by this volume; every mother who strives to
+train her children "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord" will be
+signally helped by its ministry.</p>
+
+<p>The letter-press will quicken the understanding and attune the ear, 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&mdash;" "Oldest Choral melody as of the
+heart of mankind; soft and great as the summer midnight, as the world
+with the seas and stars."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>No man's education can be complete, no human life can have its
+full store of flowers and fruits, which is not begun, continued and ended
+in the ever deepening study and love of the articulate word of God.</p>
+
+<p>I cannot better close this introduction than with this remarkable passage,
+modified to suit my purpose. "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 character. It lives like a music that can never be forgotten, like the
+sound of church bells which the reader hardly knows how he can forego.
+Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It
+is part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness. The
+memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood
+are stereotyped into its phrases. The power of all the man's griefs and
+trials are hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best
+moments; and all that there has been about him of soft and gentle and
+pure and penitent and good, speaks to him forever out of his English
+Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed and controversy
+never soiled. It has been to him all along as the silent, yet oh,
+how intelligible! voice of his guardian angel, and in the length and
+breadth of the land there is not a Christian, with one spark of religiousness
+about him, whose spiritual Biography is not in his Saxon Bible."</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="smcap">Washington</span>, April, 1889.<br />
+</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>The Child and the Bible.</h2>
+
+<div class='center'><span class="smcap">By Prof. David Swing.</span></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>THAT reading and study are very imperfect which do not bring to
+all our young people a knowledge of the general contents of the
+Bible. The Old and New Testaments contain the best moral and
+religious thought and belief of two important epochs in man's history&mdash;the
+Hebrew and Christian periods. It contains the history, the wisdom,
+the morality, the piety and the hope of that part of the human
+race that made religion the chief aim of the nation and the individual.
+The Hebrew people was set apart for the special task of carrying forward
+the idea of God. 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 Psalms. 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 world.</div>
+
+<p>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 Nile, or a State which,
+like Babylonia, might live only for luxury, or which, like Greece, might
+live only for the fine arts, or which, like Rome, might find a reason of
+being in wars of conquest. Divinely led, 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 religion.
+Israel stands as the wonder of the past, the only nation in all history
+that elected God for its king and went up into a high mountain so as to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span>
+deduce its laws from the thunder and storm and from the sunlight and
+peace of His presence. With what success it achieved its task may be
+learned from reading the meditations in Job and the Psalms, and from
+the lofty rhapsodies of Isaiah and Malachi. 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 century,
+a book is composed at which to scoff is a proof of a weak or a wicked
+mind, 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 death.</p>
+
+<p>Much that is valuable in these two testaments is recorded in events
+or in parables, and for all young minds and for nearly all older intellects,
+the doctrines, the alarms, the benedictions, the promises, the hopes are
+treasured up in incidents which might be thrown upon canvas or carved
+out of marble. Faith is seen in the picture of Abraham; patriotism,
+courage, honor, piety in Moses; justice in the story of Lot's wife; eternal
+friendship in Ruth; reckless ambition in Absalom; resignation in
+Job; faithfulness in Daniel; while in the New Testament the pictures
+offered in the Christ, the Marys, the Johns and St. Paul have been too
+many and too great for art to equal.</p>
+
+<p>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 religion. When that gifted writer who composed the hymn "Nearer
+my God to Thee" sat down to her task, what an imperfection would
+have marked her poem had she not known of Jacob's stony pillow and
+beautiful dream!</p>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+Though like a wanderer,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The sun gone down,</span><br />
+Darkness be over me,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">My rest a stone.</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<p>And the two following stanzas would have been wanting; nor is it
+probable that the writer, although a woman most gifted, could have found
+in all literature any compensation for her loss and our loss. In the
+"Battle-Hymn of the Republic," the eloquent writer shows in her first<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span>
+line her memory of Simeon, and through his eyes she looked and said:
+"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," and in the
+last verse, back comes one of the most beautiful incidents in the New
+Testament: "In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea."</p>
+
+<p>Thus have thousands of years, in all, acted as the great time-space
+for attaching the Hebrew and Christian mind and heart to the persons
+and incidents found in the Holy Scriptures. Not to know all these
+Heaven-sent emblems of virtue, wisdom, piety and salvation is not only
+not to be a Christian, but it is to stand afar off from the honor of even
+a common education and the most needful culture.</p>
+
+<p>For the youth of our country Josephine Pollard, a wonderful friend
+of all those who are living their early years, and as good a writer as she
+is a friend, has detached from the Bible this volume of historic incidents,
+and while they make a continuous record of the old and the new dispensations,
+they are separated from that which is too abstract to detain and
+impress the youngest readers. To these interesting events she has made
+the engraver add his art, and the picture of the pencil comes to help the
+picture more hidden in the words. While Christ is speaking of the
+"lost sheep" the picture reveals the lonely mountains and the lamb
+missed from the flock. While the great Teacher is speaking of the foolish
+virgins, the picture appears of the thoughtless ones attempting in
+vain to find oil for their lamps. Thus the pictures of history combine
+with the suggestive sketches of the artist and engraver, to make, indeed,
+a Bible for Young People. The authoress came to her task with rare
+fitness, and while the young folks are reading her volume they will find
+not only the religious truths they all need, but they will also find the
+simplicity and power of their own English language.</p>
+<hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">An Address to Children.</span></h2>
+
+<div class='center'><span class="smcap">By John H. Barrows</span>, D.D.</div>
+
+<h2>THE BIBLE THE BOOK FOR THE YOUNG.</h2>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>GOD once said: "And thou shalt teach them diligently to thy children."
+The whole Bible, Old Testament and New, was meant
+to be taught to the boys and girls all over the world. When I
+was in Egypt, fifteen years ago, I lay one beautiful moonlight night on
+the white sand of an island in the river Nile. It was an island away up
+near the equator, and as I lay there I saw beautiful trees with their long,
+leafy branches above me; I saw green fields reaching out on either side;
+I heard the old river Nile rippling over the stones in its bed; 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 river, and of all the
+people who had gotten their bread from the waters of the Nile, which,
+covering the sand of the desert, make it fertile and fruitful, and I blessed
+God for the Nile. Where does it come from? You have learned that
+the Nile springs from the snows of very high mountains away up in
+Abyssinia, and from two immense lakes in the center of Africa, and it
+carries the waters from these mountains and lakes down through Egypt,
+and turns a desert into a garden.</div>
+
+<p>But there is another river more wonderful than the river of old
+Egypt. It flows down from God out of heaven, and flows over this
+world, and brings with it all that is beautiful and healthful and good.
+The waters of this river are carried off in little canals, and are brought
+into the homes and churches and Sunday-schools; and wherever they
+go tend to make lives good and happy. Little children love this River<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span>
+of God, and dip their cups into it and drink, and there is a voice speaking
+in their ears and saying: "Whosoever will, let him take of the water
+of life freely." There are some people who have traveled round the
+world and seen many very interesting lands and strange and curious
+people&mdash;white men, red men, black men, copper-colored men, yellow
+men, but they will tell you that they never saw men where the children
+were happy, where the homes were happy, and where people were trying
+to do each other good, unless this River of God went there first.
+This beautiful river that is doing so much for all who live on its banks,&mdash;it
+is the Bible, the Word of God, which tells us about Himself and
+about ourselves, which speaks to us of a Savior and of the life after
+death.</p>
+
+<p>Some years ago a black prince in Africa sent a messenger to Queen
+Victoria, a man who was to ask her what was the reason that England
+was so rich and prosperous; and she sent back to this African savage
+something that told the whole story. What do you suppose it was?
+Not a rifle, not a sword, not a steam-engine, not a plow, not a sewing-machine,
+but a copy of the Bible. Let me tell you <i>five</i> things about
+this book, and if you know how to spell the word Bible you will find
+them easy to remember&mdash;B-I-B-L-E.</p>
+
+<p>First, then, the Bible is a <i>beautiful</i> book. I do not mean as to its
+shape and color. It may be very lovely or it may be very plain, as it
+looks to your eye. I have seen Bibles that you could buy for a sixpence,
+and I have a New Testament that I bought for a penny. I have seen
+Bibles which were copied with a pen and filled with pictures on which
+men labored for years, and which you couldn't buy for a thousand dollars.
+When I say that the Bible is a beautiful book, I mean that it is full of
+beautiful thoughts and beautiful pictures and beautiful stories that speak
+to our minds. God often talks with children through pictures. You love
+things that speak to you through the eye, like flowers and birds, and
+your dear mother's face. Just think of some of the pictures God has
+given us in this Book.</p>
+
+<p>I see, with my mind's eye, a garden, large, fair, with great trees and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span>
+beautiful walks, pure, clear streams with lovely flowers, with animals
+playing about, with two trees that were set apart from the rest, one
+called the Tree of Life and the other the Tree of the Knowledge of
+Good and Evil. I see a man in this garden, and animals passing before
+him and hear him giving them names. Now I see a city with twelve
+gates, each gate a pearl. The city has walls made of twelve kinds of
+jewels, and the streets are of pure gold, and there is no temple in the
+city and no sun, but it is very glorious and wonderful. I see a beautiful
+River and a glorious Sea, and a great multitude of shining ones with
+harps in their hands, and I see a throne and One that sits thereon, more
+lovely and beautiful and mighty and glorious than any words can say.</p>
+
+<p>The little three-year-old boy before he can read, loves to take his
+picture book and see things that are to him very wonderful, 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 books. The first book I ever colored was
+full of Bible pictures. There was the picture of a man on the top of a
+hill with his son laid on a heap of stones. The father's face was sad,
+and the old man was lifting a knife in his hand; and there was a sheep
+caught in a bush near by; and there was the figure of an angel in the
+sky. Then there was the picture of a young man lying on the ground,
+with stones under his head for a pillow, and a stairway or ladder reaching
+up to the heavens above, with angels going up and down. There
+was the picture of a boy whose father gave him a coat of many colors,
+and how I liked to daub on the red and yellow and blue paint, and I am
+afraid I took a pin and punched out the eyes in the pictures of the
+brothers of this boy&mdash;those brothers who, as you remember, cast him
+into a dry well and afterward sold him as a slave. There was a picture
+of a little boy lying in a little boat which was among the tall grasses of
+a river. There was the picture of a great tent in the desert, with altars
+on which fire was burning, and a great pillar of cloud resting down on
+it in the midst of the tent. And then far over in the book was the picture
+of the best Man who ever lived, taking little children in His arms,
+putting His hands on them and blessing them.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The Bible is a beautiful book for a great many reasons that I can't
+speak of now. Its beauty is not like that of an apple blossom, which
+soon fades away. It grows more and more lovely as you grow older.
+I like to see a little child reading with happy face from this book which
+tells of God's love; but it is lovelier still to see the old grandmother,
+who loved the Bible in childhood, putting on her spectacles and reading
+these words of David: "Oh, how I love thy law! It is my meditation
+all the day. How sweet are thy words to my taste, yea, sweeter than
+honey to my mouth!" Two of the most beautiful things that we ever
+see are gold and honey&mdash;gold, bright shining, and the honey which
+looks like liquid gold, shut up in little boxes of pearl. Now I am going
+to end what I have to say about the Bible as beautiful, by telling you
+what David said of the words of the Lord that are found in this book:
+"More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold;
+sweeter also than honey and the honey comb."</p>
+
+<p>But the Bible is not only a beautiful book for children, but it is an
+<i>interesting</i> book. You like to read it and hear it, partly because it tells
+so much about children, boys and girls like you. You read in this book
+about two brothers, one of whom loved God, and the other did not love
+his brother, and slew him because his own deeds were evil and his
+brother's righteous. You read about a little girl who was taken off in
+a certain war, and became a servant for the wife of a great general.
+He was a leper, and this little girl, believing in God and in God's prophet,
+Elisha, told her mistress that the prophet in Israel could heal her master
+of his awful disease. You read the story of a little boy whose mother
+gave him early to the Lord, and who went to live with an old man in a
+great tent, which was God's house, and who heard the voice of the Lord
+calling to him in the night. Did you never hear God's voice speaking
+to your heart, and do you always answer as did this boy in the tabernacle
+at Shiloh: "Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth"?</p>
+
+<p>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 wines, and who formed a boys' temperance society in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span>
+court of the king, and who rose to high honor and great fame. Above
+all, you read of the perfect Child who was obedient to his earthly father
+and mother, and who did the will of his Heavenly Father, and who grew
+into the bravest, noblest, truest, most manly man that ever lived, and who
+died for us all&mdash;that Man whose words are, I think, the first words of the
+Bible that you learned by heart. I have heard of a little girl who lived
+where the Bible is not permitted to be read by the children. But she had
+a present of the good Book from her Sunday School teacher. It was
+discovered that she had this book; it was snatched from her and thrown
+into the fire. She watched it burn, while the tears rolled down her cheeks,
+and turning sadly away, said: "Thank God, there are fourteen chapters
+of the Gospel of John which they can't burn up, for I have committed
+them to memory."</p>
+
+<p>The Bible interests you because it is full of <i>wonderful</i> things. It tells
+of a wonderful God who doeth marvelous things for His people. It tells
+of the flood which swept away the wicked world; of the plagues which
+fell on wicked Egypt; of the march of two millions of people through the
+Red Sea which God divided; it tells you of the wonderful life of the children
+of Israel in the desert, with God's hand feeding them with the birds
+and the bread; it leads you to the foot of a great mountain, on which
+God came down in a chariot of fire, while the thunders roared and the
+trumpet blown by some mighty angel sounded loud and long, and the
+mountain shook and smoked like a great furnace, and all the people trembled
+while God gave the law which begins: "I am the Lord that brought
+thee out of Egypt. Thou shalt have no other gods before me."</p>
+
+<p>This Bible has more wonderful things than you will find anywhere
+else. It tells of great battles, of the sun and moon standing still, of cities
+falling down at the blowing of trumpets; of fire descending from heaven;
+it tells of shipwrecks and storms, and cruel kings, and men willing to die
+for the name of Jesus. It tells of God's wonderful love, and how the Son
+of God came from heaven to earth and died for us on the Cross and rose
+from the grave. And the best thing, children, about all these Bible wonders,
+is this, that they are true. A wonderful God doeth wonderful things.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span>
+This is a wonderful world we live in. You children know it and feel it,
+and some older people have got to become much wiser than they now are
+to be as wise as you are. Is not the Bible an interesting Book? My
+children will listen longer to the story of the Bible than anything else.
+And as you grow older, if you will only keep on studying the Bible, it will
+keep its interest till you die.</p>
+
+<p>Children who live in cities love to ride, in summer, in the parks and
+see the wonderful figures which the gardeners have made with their plants
+and flowers, the stars and stripes, an elephant, the ball-player, a giraffe,
+a sun-dial, a calendar, an obelisk, sphinxes, and so forth. Now, this book
+is a great garden on which God has made figures that will last as long
+as the world lasts. There is Adam, with his face dark and sorrowful because
+he had sinned; there is Abel, looking up to that heaven which he,
+first of all men, entered; there is Noah, a preacher of righteousness, who
+preached many years without converting a soul, but kept on believing
+God; there is Abraham with a staff in his hand; there is Moses holding
+the wondrous rod and the book of the law; there is David with his harp;
+there is Paul, going forth to preach Christ; there is John, looking into
+heaven. The children who have the Bible taught them will find great
+interest in these figures. But the greatest interest in the Bible is this,
+that it is a sign-board pointing us to our Father's house in Heaven.</p>
+
+<p>Now, I come to the third letter. The B-I-<i>B</i>-L-E&mdash;is not only a
+Beautiful book, and an Interesting book, but it is a Blessed book. That
+is, it makes people happy and good, good and happy. A poor man comes
+from England to Chicago with his wife and three children, expecting to
+get work and to make him a lovely home. But he fails to get work and
+he has to sell many things to get bread for his family. At last he is in
+despair, but a good man comes to his house, learns of his need, gives him
+bread and gets him work; and that night the Englishman says to his wife,
+"Wasn't he a blessed man to help us at this time?" But in a few days
+the baby of the house is taken sick and soon dies, and the good man
+comes again and advances money to pay for the funeral of the dear little
+child; and they say, "Blessed man!" again. But that night, when all is<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span>
+over, and the baby is laid to sleep in the cemetery, the poor man takes
+down the Bible and reads to his wife of Christ's love to children, and of
+the beautiful world beyond, where there is no more crying and death, and
+the wife says, "Oh, isn't that a blessed Book!"</p>
+
+<p><i>Blessed</i> Book. So the mother thinks whose boy has gone off to
+school or to sea. 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 day. She knows
+perfectly well that no great harm can come to him, if he reads and obeys
+what is written in the Word of God. I know a young lady who was very
+much distressed when in Paris several years ago because her hand-bag, a
+little portmanteau, had been lost. And when, after much hunting, it was
+found, she confessed that what distressed her most of all in the thought
+of losing her hand-bag was this, that it contained the little Bible which
+had been given to her when a child and which she had made her daily
+companion ever since. I hope that each of you owns a Bible which, the
+gift of a mother or of some dear friend, is growing more and more blessed
+to you as you go forward into your lives. There is much darkness in the
+future. You will have sorrows as well as joys. The clouds will gather.
+The shadows will sometimes descend and you will wonder where you are
+to walk, or what you are to do. But remember what David has said of
+this blessed Book: "Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a guide to my
+path."</p>
+
+<p>Now, we come to the fourth letter, B-I-B-<i>L</i>-E. Beautiful, Interesting,
+Blessed, L, Life-giving. This is something better than anything we
+have yet said to you about the Bible. It gives life to those who are dead.
+You have seen a patch of ground early in the spring on which nothing
+was growing. But the rain falls, and the warm sunshine pours down, and
+the seeds in that soil burst into life and spring up and cover the earth with
+living plants and flowers. And so God's Word brings its dew and sunshine
+on our cold, dead hearts, and the flowers of love, hope, peace and joy spring
+up. The Bible is like bread, like the manna which came to the children of
+Israel in the desert. It feeds our souls. It gives us life. How does it give
+us life? It teaches us about God and his great love in Jesus, and when we<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span>
+come to get from Him the forgiveness of our sins, when we come to know
+God and love God and trust in God, we have life. "This is life eternal,"
+said Jesus, "that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ
+whom thou hast sent." Some of you are giving money to send this Book
+to the heathen people. Where this Book goes it gives life like bread sent
+to people who are starving.</p>
+
+<p>But why do we need the Bible to know about God? 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 them? Yes, they tell us that God
+is powerful, that He is very great, but they do not tell us that he loves us
+poor sinners. The Egyptians believed in God; yes, in many gods.
+They were, as we know, a very wise and learned people. And yet this
+people Moses found bowing down and worshiping cats and crocodiles and
+beetles. They did not know the one God who led His people, and who
+said, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," and who is not only
+holy, but merciful, forgiving our sins. Suppose that you were on an ocean
+steamer way out at sea, and she was sinking into the waves. To what
+or to whom would you pray? You wouldn't pray to the waves. They
+would not have mercy on you. You wouldn't pray to the stars. They
+wouldn't have mercy on you. You would pray to the God who is revealed
+in this Book, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has said
+that nothing can take us from His love, neither life nor death, land nor
+ocean, nothing can separate us from His love.</p>
+
+<p>Children, this Book tells us one thing which all need to learn, and
+that is, how we may gain life eternal, how we may escape from death.
+This Book is the story of God's love. It is the story of Jesus, our Savior.
+He that has Christ in his heart has life. "I am the resurrection and the
+life," said Jesus; "I am the way, the truth and the life." If this Book
+does not lead you to Christ, you have failed to get from it what God gave
+it for. David said of the Bible: "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting
+the soul."</p>
+
+<p>We come now to the fifth letter, B-I-B-L-<i>E</i>&mdash;Everlasting. The
+Bible is Beautiful, Interesting, Blessed, Life-giving, and Everlasting. It<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span>
+is something that does not wear out. "The word of the Lord endureth
+forever." Children's clothes wear out, as you well know. Your play-things
+break; your shoes don't last; your books get torn; these bodies
+die; but the Bible lasts. It was good in David's time. It was good
+when Christ was a child, and He read it. It was good in Paul's time, and
+he added to it. It was good when Martin Luther translated it into the
+German language, and William Tyndale translated it into English. It
+lasts the way an oak tree lasts, that grows bigger and bigger and sends
+out little shoots that grow into other oaks and make a mighty forest.
+This Bible is now speaking to men in nearly three hundred different languages.
+It is going to be the one Book of the world. A hundred years
+ago a famous infidel in France, named Voltaire, foolishly published his
+opinion that the religion of the Bible would soon die out, but to-day men
+are using Voltaire's printing-press in Geneva to publish this grand old
+Book. Here is something, children, that is going to last. You can stand
+on it safely. God is in it. When the little girl whose father was an infidel
+and whose mother was a Christian was dying, and she said to her
+father, "Shall I hold to your principles, father, or shall I turn now to my
+mother's God?" the father said: "Believe in your mother's God."</p>
+
+<p>Just before beginning a great battle on the sea, you remember that
+Admiral Nelson hung out a flag with these words for all to see: "England
+expects every man to do his duty." And so our great General, the Captain
+of our salvation, expects that every boy trained up in a Christian
+church will do his duty. He expects that you will take this Beautiful,
+Interesting, Blessed, Life-giving and Eternal book and make it your guide,
+your compass, your rudder, your chart on the great ocean of life. He
+expects that you will be true men and women, honest, pure, obedient to
+God, loving your country and all the world. He expects that you will
+be faithful to duty, that you will be clean in body and in lips and mouth
+and eyes and heart. He expects to meet you and welcome you all in
+glory above.</p>
+
+<p>A passenger on one of our ocean steamers found an old friend in the
+captain. They talked about one of their old classmates in school. Said<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span>
+the passenger: "I could never understand why Will did not succeed.
+He left college well educated, full of life and health, well-to-do. He gave
+up the ministry which he had intended to enter, having fallen in with some
+free-thinking fellows. He studied law, but gave that up and went to
+farming. He became a skeptic. He left his wife and farming and became
+a gold-seeker in California. He left this and went to Idaho. He had lost
+everything, and supported himself by odd jobs. I knew him there. He
+was not a drunkard or a gambler, but he had never succeeded. He tried
+something new several times a year. He was now almost mad in his opposition
+to the religion of the Bible. Soon he died, bitterly rebelling
+against God. It is wonderful that such a man should ever have come to
+such an end."</p>
+
+<p>The captain was silent for a while, but at last said: "Old sailors
+have a superstition that there are phantom ships (that is, ghosts of ships)
+which cross the sea. I saw a vessel once that showed me how this idea
+may have sprung up. It was a full-rigged bark, driving under full sail.
+There was no one on board. Some disease may have broken out, and
+all the sailors had left. I could not capture her, though I tried. Several
+months later I passed her again. Her topmast was gone; her sails were
+in rags; the wind drove her where it would. A year later she came in
+sight one stormy winter night. She was a shattered hulk and went down
+at last in the darkness and storm. She was a good ship at first, but,"
+added the captain, "she had lost her rudder." Boys and girls, young
+men and women, I pray you, on this voyage of life, not to lose the rudder
+by which, in the storm, you may hold the ship true to the harbor.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CONTENTS.</h2>
+
+
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents">
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER I.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">God Made the World</span>,</td><td align="right"><span class='small'>PAGE</span><br /><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER II.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Great Flood; and a Great Tow-er</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER III.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">A-bra-ham: The Man of Faith</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER IV.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Ja-cob and E-sau</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER V.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Ja-cob and Ra-chel</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER VI.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Jo-seph and his Breth-ren</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_76">76</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER VII.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Through the Red Sea and the Wil-der-ness</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_91">91</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER VIII.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">How Josh-u-a and Jeph-thah Fought for the Lord</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_112">112</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER IX.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span><span class="smcap">Sam-son, the Strong Man</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_118">118</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER X.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Ruth</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_128">128</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XI.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Job</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_132">132</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XII.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Sam-u-el, the Child of God</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_139">139</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XIII.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Sam-u-el, the Man of God</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_147">147</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XIV.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Da-vid and Saul</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_157">157</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XV.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Sol-o-mon, the Wise Man</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_177">177</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XVI.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">E-li-jah</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_183">183</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XVII.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">E-li-sha</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_192">192</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XVIII.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Jo-nah, the Man who Tried to Hide from God</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_200">200</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XIX.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Dan-i-el</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_204">204</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XX.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span><span class="smcap">The Good Queen Es-ther</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_217">217</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br /><br />NEW TESTAMENT.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER I.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Birth of Christ</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_235">235</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER II.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Star in the East</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_244">244</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER III.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Boy-hood of Je-sus</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_251">251</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER IV.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Je-sus and John the Bap-tist</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_256">256</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER V.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Wo-man at the Well.&mdash;Je-sus by the Sea</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_267">267</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER VI.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Je-sus Heals the Sick, and does Good Work on the Day of Rest</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_276">276</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER VII.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Ser-mon on the Mount</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_286">286</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER VIII.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Good Words and Good Works</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_295">295</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER IX.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Je-sus at the Sea-shore</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_303">303</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER X.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span><span class="smcap">Je-sus Brings the Dead to Life.&mdash;Feeds Five Thou-sand</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_311">311</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XI.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Je-sus Heals the Sick.&mdash;His Form Changed on the Mount</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_320">320</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XII.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Good Sa-mar-i-tan.&mdash;Mar-tha and Ma-ry.&mdash;The Man Born Blind</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_327">327</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XIII.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Je-sus the Good Shep-herd.&mdash;Laz-a-rus Brought to Life.&mdash;The Feast and those who were bid to it</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_337">337</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XIV.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Prod-i-gal Son.&mdash;The Phar-i-see and the Pub-li-can.&mdash;Babes Brought to Je-sus.&mdash;Zac-che-us Climbs a Tree</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_346">346</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XV.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Feast of the Pass-o-ver.&mdash;The Sup-per at Beth-a-ny</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_353">353</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XVI.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Par-a-bles of our Lord</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_362">362</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XVII.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">The Lord's Sup-per.&mdash;Je-sus in Geth-sem-a-ne.&mdash;The Ju-das Kiss.&mdash;Pe-ter De-nies Je-sus</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_375">375</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XVIII.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Christ Be-fore Pi-late.&mdash;Christ on the Cross</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_382">382</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XIX.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Je-sus Leaves the Grave.&mdash;Ap-pears to Ma-ry.&mdash;Ste-phen Stoned.&mdash;Paul's Life, Ship-wreck and Death</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_395">395</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"><br />CHAPTER XX.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">What John saw while on the Isle of Pat-mos.&mdash;The Great White Throne.&mdash;The Land of Light</span>,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_412">412</a></td></tr>
+</table></div><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>History of the Old Testament.</h2>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER I.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>GOD MADE THE WORLD.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Far</span> back in the past, more years than you could
+think or count, God made the world. It did not look
+at first as it does now, for there was no live thing on
+it, no men, beasts, or birds, not a bush, tree or plant,
+but all was dark and drear.</p>
+
+<p>Then God said, Let there be light! And the
+light came. And God saw the light, and it pleased
+him, and he gave it the name of Day. And when
+the day was gone, and the dark came back to stay
+for a while, he gave the dark spell the name of Night.
+And God did these things on the first day.</p>
+
+<p>The next day God made the clouds, and the
+sky in which they were to move; and he gave the
+sky a name; he called it Heav-en.</p>
+
+<p>Then he drove the wa-ters to one place where
+they were both deep and wide, and he called the wa-ters
+Seas, and to the dry land he gave the name of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span>
+Earth. And God made the grass to grow up out of
+the earth, and the trees and shrubs that have fruit on
+them. And the grass and the shrubs and the trees
+were to bear seeds, so that when these seeds were put
+in-to the ground more grass and trees and shrubs would
+grow there. God did these things on the third day.</p>
+
+<p>And God put two great lights in the sky, the Sun
+to shine by day, and the Moon to shine by night;
+and he made the stars, and put each one in its place.
+And these things he did on the fourth day.</p>
+
+<p>And he made the great whales, and all the fish
+that live in the sea, and the birds that swim on it, as
+well as those that fly through the air, and make their
+nests in the deep woods. And these things God did
+on the fifth day.</p>
+
+<p>God made the beasts: those that are wild and
+live in the deep, dark woods, far from the homes of
+men; and those that are tame and of use to men,
+and live where men live&mdash;such as the horse, the cow,
+the ox and the sheep. And he made the things that
+creep on the ground, and flies and bugs that course
+through the air.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 437px;">
+<img src="images/i_001.jpg" width="437" height="600" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">AD-AM AND EVE DRIV-EN FROM PAR-A-DISE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And then God made Man, and told him that he
+should rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the air,
+and all else that lived on the earth. And he told
+man that the fruit which grew on the trees and shrubs
+should be his food, while the beasts were to feed on
+the leaves, and on the grass that was spread out on
+the earth. These things were done on the sixth day.</p>
+
+<p>The next day God did no work at all, but made
+it a day of rest.</p>
+
+<p>God made man out of the dust of the earth, and
+breathed in him till the man breathed and moved,
+and showed signs of life. Then God made a gar-den
+for man to live in, where all sorts of trees grew that
+were nice to look at, and that bore fruit good to eat.
+And this place was called E-den. And through it
+flowed a large stream that kept the earth moist.</p>
+
+<p>And God took Ad-am, the man he had made,
+and put him in the gar-den, and told him to take care
+of it. He told him he might eat of the fruit that
+grew on all the trees but one. God said he must
+not eat of that tree, for if he did he would be sure to
+die. And all the birds and beasts came to A-dam,
+that he might give them their names. And the
+names he gave them are those by which they are
+known to this day.</p>
+
+<p>And God saw it was not good for man to be
+a-lone; he should have some one to be with him and
+help him. So he had a deep sleep fall on Ad-am,
+and while he slept God took out of his side a bone,
+and out of this bone he made a wo-man. Then he
+brought this wo-man he had made to Ad-am, and
+she was his wife.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a><br /><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Now there was in this gar-den of E-den a great
+big snake. And this snake spoke to the wo-man&mdash;as
+Sa-tan speaks to us&mdash;to tempt her to sin.</p>
+
+<p>The snake said: Has God told you not to eat of
+all the trees in the gar-den?</p>
+
+<p>And the wo-man said that they might eat of all
+but one; if they ate of that or touched it they would
+be sure to die. The snake told them they should
+not die, and that God did not wish them to eat of it
+for fear they would grow wise, and know more than
+he thought was good for them.</p>
+
+<p>The wo-man heard what the snake said, and when
+she saw that the tree was nice to look at and the fruit
+seemed good to eat, she gave no thought to what
+God had said, but took some of the fruit and ate of it;
+she gave some to the man, Ad-am, and he did eat.</p>
+
+<p>In a short time they heard a voice, and knew that
+God spoke to them. Yet they did not come near
+him when they heard his voice, but ran and tried to
+hide from him.</p>
+
+<p>But God spoke once more, and said to the man,
+Where art thou?</p>
+
+<p>And Ad-am said, I heard thy voice, and my fear
+was so great that I hid from thee.</p>
+
+<p>And God said, Did'st thou eat of the tree I told
+thee not to eat of?</p>
+
+<p>And the man said, She whom thou dids't give<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span>
+me to be with me brought me some of the fruit, and
+I did eat.</p>
+
+<p>And God said to the man's wife, What is this
+that thou hast done?</p>
+
+<p>And she told God what the snake had said, and
+how she came to eat of the fruit, and God was wroth
+with them all. He said the snake should crawl on
+the ground and eat dust all the days of its life; and
+he told the wife she should know what it was to be
+sick and sad, and should have much grief and care.</p>
+
+<p>And God drove the man and his wife out of
+E-den, and would let them live no more in that fair
+place. And he sent an-gels to keep watch, and a
+sword of fire that would turn in all ways, so that the
+two whom God for their sins drove out of E-den
+could not get back to the home they had lost.</p>
+
+<p>And God told Ad-am that as he had paid heed
+to what his wife said, and did eat of the tree which
+the Lord had told him not to eat of, the ground
+should bear no more fruit for him by it-self, as it had
+done up to this time, and Ad-am would have to work
+hard all his life to raise food to eat, and when he died he
+would go back to the dust out of which he was made.</p>
+
+<p>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 ground. He said he
+would send One from the sky who would give his
+life for theirs: that is, he would be put to death for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span>
+their sins. Then if they would turn from their sins,
+and give their hearts to the One who was to save
+them, God
+would not turn
+his face from
+them, but when
+they died they
+would have a
+home with him,
+and have no
+thought of sin.</p>
+
+<p>So Ad-am
+went forth to
+till the land,
+and he gave his
+wife the name
+of Eve. And
+they made
+coats out of the
+skins of beasts.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 455px;">
+<img src="images/i_002.jpg" width="455" height="600" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">CAIN AND A-BEL OF-FER-ING SAC-RI-FI-CES TO GOD.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Ad-am and
+his wife had
+two sons: Cain
+and A-bel.
+When they
+grew up to be men, Cain, who was the first-born, took
+care of a farm; A-bel kept a flock of sheep.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>They both had bad hearts, and at times would be
+led in-to sin, just as Ad-am and his wife had been.
+But when A-bel did wrong he was grieved, and
+sought to make peace with God. One day he brought
+a lamb from his flock, and killed it, and burnt it on
+a heap of stones. And the smoke went up on high.</p>
+
+<p>This act of A-bel's pleased God, for it was the
+sign that a Lamb was to be sent to the world to save
+men from their sins.</p>
+
+<p>But Cain kept on in his sins, and paid his vows
+to God not with a lamb, but with fruit or grain out
+of the field. This did not please God, and the
+smoke went not up on high. When Cain saw this
+he was in a rage, and showed by his looks that he
+was wroth with God. Yet God spoke to him in a
+kind voice, and said, Why art thou wroth? and why
+art thou so cast down?</p>
+
+<p>If Cain did right God told him he would be
+pleased with his gift; but if he did not do right, the
+fault was his own.</p>
+
+<p>Then Cain was wroth with A-bel, for he saw that
+God was pleased with A-bel's gift and not with his.
+And one day when both of them were out in the
+field he rose up and slew A-bel, and the blood ran
+out of A-bel's wounds and sank deep in the ground.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as this deed was done, God spoke to
+Cain, and said: Where is A-bel?</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Cain said, I know not. He is not in my care.
+Then God, who had seen the crime, and knew just
+how bad his heart was, said to Cain: What hast
+thou done?
+The voice of A-bel's
+blood cries
+to me from out
+the ground.</p>
+
+<p>And God
+told Cain that
+for his great sin
+he should move
+from place to
+place, as one
+who was in fear
+of his life, and
+had no home to
+stay in. And
+if he should
+plant aught in
+the field to bear
+food, it should
+not grow well.
+Weeds would come up and choke it, or it would bear
+leaves and no fruit, so that Cain would not have
+much to eat.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 507px;">
+<img src="images/i_003.jpg" width="507" height="600" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">THE DEATH OF A-BEL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And Cain said if God drove him here and there<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span>
+on the face of the earth, and would not take care of
+him, all those who met him would want to kill him.</p>
+
+<p>But God said the man who hurt Cain would have
+a worse fate. God set a mark on Cain; what kind
+of a mark it was we are not told, but those who saw
+it would know it was Cain, and it would bring to
+their minds that God had said no man should kill him.</p>
+
+<p>Ad-am lived to be an old, old man, and had a
+large flock of chil-dren, who grew up and were wed,
+and they went off and made homes, and day by day
+were folks born in-to the world. When Ad-am died
+he was laid in the ground and went back to dust, as
+God had said he should when he went out of E-den.</p>
+
+<p>One of the men who lived in those days was
+named E-noch. It is said of him that he walked
+with God. That means that he loved God, and
+thought of him, and kept near him all the time, and
+did his best to please him.</p>
+
+<p>And E-noch did not die, but God took him up
+to be with him while he still lived, just as if he were
+to take up one of us.</p>
+
+<p>And E-noch had a son whose name was Me-thu-se-lah,
+who died at a great old age. In those times
+men lived more years than they do now, 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-lah.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER II.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>THE GREAT FLOOD; AND A GREAT TOWER.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">In</span> the course of time, when there came to be
+more folks in the world, they grew fond of sin.
+They did not love
+God, or try to please
+him. And God was
+wroth with them, and
+said he would send
+a flood that would
+drown the world,
+and there should
+not be any dry land
+left for men, beasts,
+or birds to live on.</p>
+
+<p>But though most
+of the folks at that
+time were as bad as
+they could be, there
+was one good man
+in their midst, and
+his name was No-ah.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 494px;">
+<img src="images/i_004.jpg" width="494" height="600" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">THE ARK.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And God loved No-ah and told him what he
+meant to do. And God bade No-ah build an ark.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span>
+This was a boat. It was to be made large, with
+rooms in it, and a great door on its side. And it
+was to be quite high, and to have a roof on top.</p>
+
+<p>And God told No-ah when the ark was done he
+and his sons and their wives should go in it.</p>
+
+<p>And he told No-ah to take in with him two of
+each kind of bird and of beast, and of bug, and of
+things that crept, and to take care of them in the ark
+so long as the flood should be on the earth; for all
+that were not in the ark would be sure to be drowned.</p>
+
+<p>So No-ah set out at once to build the ark; and
+it took him a great while to build it. When not at
+work on the ark, he would talk of God, and of his
+plan to send a flood to wash sin out of the world, and
+would urge the folks to give up their sins, and lead
+good lives. But they paid no heed to his words,
+and went from bad to worse all the time that No-ah
+was at work on the ark.</p>
+
+<p>When it was done God told No-ah to come in-to
+the ark, for he saw he was a good man who had
+done his best to serve him, and to bring the birds
+and beasts with him. For in a few days he would
+send the rain on the earth, and all that was left on it
+would be drowned.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i_005.jpg" width="600" height="456" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">THE ARK</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>So No-ah did as God told him. And when he
+and his wife, and his three sons and their wives, and
+the birds and the beasts, both small and great, had
+passed through the great door of the ark, God shut
+them in.</p>
+
+<p>At the end of a week the rain set in, and did not
+stop for more than a month. The rain seemed to
+pour out of the sky, and all the springs, the large and
+small streams, and the great seas, rose up and swept
+through the length and breadth of the land. They
+came to where the ark was, and went round and
+round it, and rose so high that the ark was borne
+from its place and set a-float on the great wide sea.</p>
+
+<p>Then those who had paid no heed to No-ah, but
+had kept on in their sins, were in a sad plight. The
+flood had come, and they knew now that all that he
+had told them was true. How glad they would
+have been to go with him in the ark. But it was too
+late. They ran in wild haste to the tops of the hills
+in hopes to find there a safe place. But still the
+floods rose and rose till there was no place for them
+to go, and all those not in the ark were drowned,
+and there was not a bit of dry land in the whole wide
+world.</p>
+
+<p>But God took care of No-ah, and those who were
+with him, and kept them safe till the floods went
+down. 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-rat. It stood there for at
+least two months, and at the end of that time the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a><br /><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span>
+sea had gone down so that tops of high hills could
+be seen here and there.</p>
+
+<p>And No-ah sent forth a ra-ven, and the bird flew
+this way and that,
+but came not back
+to the ark.</p>
+
+<p>Then No-ah
+sent forth a dove,
+that he might find
+out if the ground was
+yet dry. And the
+dove flew here and
+there in search of
+green things, but
+found not a tree in
+sight, and naught
+but cold hard rock,
+and so she flew back
+to the ark and No-ah
+put out his hand and
+took her in.</p>
+
+<p>At the end of a
+week No-ah sent out
+the dove once more, and at the close of the day
+she came back with a leaf in her mouth.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 304px;">
+<img src="images/i_006.jpg" width="304" height="400" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">THE RE-TURN OF THE DOVE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>As soon as No-ah saw the leaf he knew that the
+waves had gone down or the dove could not have<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span>
+found it. And he knew that God had sent the dove
+back to him that he might know the ground would
+soon be dry.</p>
+
+<p>In a few days he sent the dove out for the third
+time, but she did not come back; and No-ah was
+sure then that the ground was dry, and that God
+meant that for a sign that he should leave the ark in
+which he had been shut up so long.</p>
+
+<p>And God spoke to No-ah and told him to come
+out of the ark, and to bring out all that had been in
+there with him. And No-ah did so, and he built
+up a heap of stones as A-bel had done, on which he
+laid beasts and birds, and burnt them, which was the
+way in which man gave thanks to God in those
+days.</p>
+
+<p>And No-ah's heart was full of praise to God,
+who had kept him, and those who were near and
+dear to him, safe from the flood, while all the rest of
+the world was drowned.</p>
+
+<p>And God told No-ah and his sons that they
+should rule on the earth, and might kill the beasts
+and use the flesh for food. 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 ground, and
+did not know the taste of meat.</p>
+
+<p>And God told No-ah that he would send no
+more floods to drown the world as this one had done.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span>
+And he gave No-ah a sign that he would keep his
+word, so that when No-ah saw it he would have no
+fear of a flood.
+And this sign
+was the rain-bow,
+which God
+set up in the sky
+as a bow of hope
+to No-ah and to
+all the world.</p>
+
+<p>No-ah lived
+for years and
+years af-ter the
+flood, and died
+at a ripe old age.</p>
+
+<p>The tribes of
+No-ah grew so
+fast that the
+world was quite
+well filled once
+more.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 291px;">
+<img src="images/i_007.jpg" width="291" height="400" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">NO-AH&#39;S SAC-RI-FICE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And you
+would think they
+would have been
+glad to serve God, and to do right in his sight. But
+their hearts were full of sin, and they went on as
+those had done who were drowned in the flood.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 431px;">
+<img src="images/i_008.jpg" width="431" height="600" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">HE-BREWS, AND THEIR MODE OF TRAV-EL-ING.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>At this time all those who dwelt on the earth
+spoke but one tongue; that is, they used the same
+kind of speech.</p>
+
+<p>Now these tribes did not stay in one spot all the
+time, but would pack
+up their tents and move
+from place to place as
+they chose.</p>
+
+<p>And as they went
+to the east they came
+to a plain in the land of
+Shi-nar. And they
+said, Let us make brick
+and build a high tow-er
+that shall reach up to
+the sky. And let us
+make a name, so that
+when we go from this
+place it will be known
+what great men were
+here, and what great
+deeds they could do.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 273px;">
+<img src="images/i_009.jpg" width="273" height="400" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">BUILD-ING THE TOW-ER OF BA-BEL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And they set to
+work to build it. God,
+who read their hearts, knew that sin was at work
+there, and that the tow-er they meant to build was
+not to serve him in, or to add to his praise. So he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span>
+was not pleased with their work, and chose a strange
+way to stop them. He made them all at once speak
+in strange tongues. This one could not tell what
+that one said, and they made such a noise that it
+grew to be just a ba-bel of sound. And that is why
+it was called the tow-er of Ba-bel.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER III.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>ABRAHAM: THE MAN OF FAITH.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">There</span> dwelt in the land of Ur a man whose
+name was A-bra-ham. And in that land the men
+did not serve the true God, but had set up false gods
+to whom they paid their vows.</p>
+
+<p>And God told A-bra-ham to leave his home and
+go to a land which he would show him. A-bra-ham
+did not know where the land was, but he had great
+faith, and knew that God would take care of him and
+bring him to the land he had told him of.</p>
+
+<p>So A-bra-ham took Sa-rah, his wife, and his
+bro-ther's son, whose name was Lot, and they set out
+for the land which God had said he would show
+him.</p>
+
+<p>A-bra-ham was a rich man, and so was Lot, and
+they had a great wealth of flocks, and of herds, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span>
+of tents. And they each had a large force of herds-men.
+And these herds-men were at strife.</p>
+
+<p>And A-bra-ham told Lot it was best that they
+should part; and he said to him, Choose where thou
+shalt go. If thou wilt take the left hand I will go to
+the right, and if thou wilt go to the right hand then
+I will go to the left.</p>
+
+<p>So Lot looked round and saw that the plain of
+Jor-dan was rich in grass, and would be a fine place
+for him and his herds to dwell in; so he made his
+choice at once, and went to live there.</p>
+
+<p>Two large towns were on this plain, Sod-om and
+Go-mor-rah. The men in Sod-om were full of sin,
+yet Lot, though a good man, went to live there that
+he might have a chance to add to his wealth.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as Lot had gone, the Lord told A-bra-ham
+that he would give to him and his heirs all that
+land as far as he could see it. And the tribe of
+A-bra-ham would be so great that no one could
+count them.</p>
+
+<p>Now Sa-rah A-bra-ham's wife, had a hand-maid&mdash;that
+is, a maid-of-all-work&mdash;whose name was Ha-gar;
+and she came from E-gypt. Ha-gar did Sa-rah
+a great wrong, and Sa-rah drove her from the
+house, and she fled to the woods.</p>
+
+<p>An an-gel of the Lord found Ha-gar there by a
+spring of wa-ter, and said to her, From whence<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span>
+didst thou come? and where wilt thou go? And she
+said she had fled from Sa-rah, whose maid she was.</p>
+
+<p>And the an-gel said she must go back to Sa-rah
+and do as she wished her to do. And he told Ha-gar
+she would have a son whose name would be
+Ish-ma-el, and that he would live out of doors and be
+at strife with all men. So Ha-gar went back to Sa-rah,
+and in due time God gave her a son, who was
+called Ish-ma-el.</p>
+
+<p>When A-bra-ham was an old man, God told him
+that he and Sa-rah should have a son, who should
+be called I-saac.</p>
+
+<p>One day at the hour of noon, when A-bra-ham
+sat by the door of his tent, he looked up and saw
+three men quite near him. Then he ran out to
+meet them, and bowed his face to the ground. And
+A-bra-ham bade them sit down and rest, and let
+some wa-ter be brought that they might wash their
+feet.</p>
+
+<p>No one in those days wore such shoes as are
+worn now. Some went bare-foot, and some wore
+just a sole tied to the foot with strings, which did
+not keep off the dust and dirt as our shoes do.</p>
+
+<p>So when one came in from a long walk the first
+thing he did was to bathe his feet, as that gave rest
+and ease, and when guests came the bowl was
+brought for their use.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And A-bra-ham brought them food to eat, and
+stood by to wait on them; and when they had had
+their fill, went
+with them to
+show them the
+way.</p>
+
+<p>In those
+days the Lord
+came down on
+the earth and
+spoke with men,
+and it is thought
+that one of these
+three was the
+Lord, and the
+two with him
+were an-gels.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 384px;">
+<img src="images/i_010.jpg" width="384" height="500" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">THE AN-GELS&#39; VIS-IT.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>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 there. This made A-bra-ham sad, and he
+said there might be a few good men there, and he
+begged the Lord to spare the towns for their sakes.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The Lord said he would do so if ten good men
+could be found there.</p>
+
+<p>And the Lord left A-bra-ham and he went back
+to his tent. At the close of the day, Lot sat in the
+gate of Sod-om and two an-gels came there. And as
+soon as Lot saw them he rose up to meet them and
+bowed down with his face to the ground.</p>
+
+<p>Then these an-gels told Lot to take out of Sod-om
+all those who were dear to him, and flee in great
+haste, as the Lord meant to set the place on fire.</p>
+
+<p>They were told not to look back, but while on
+their way Lot's wife turned her head, which was a
+sign that her heart was in Sod-om, and she died
+where she stood, and turned to salt.</p>
+
+<p>But Lot and his two girls reached Zo-ar at dawn
+of the next day. Then the Lord rained fire on Sod-om
+and Go-mor-rah, and they were burnt up in fierce
+flame, with all that lived there, and all that grew out
+of the ground.</p>
+
+<p>In due time God gave A-bra-ham the son he had
+said he should have.</p>
+
+<p>And the child grew, and as soon as it could eat,
+A-bra-ham made a great feast. And at this feast
+Sa-rah saw that Ha-gar's son, Ish-ma-el, made fun
+of her boy, and she begged A-bra-ham to cast him
+out. A-bra-ham did not wish to do this, but God
+spoke to him and told him to do as Sa-rah had said,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span>
+for I-saac was to be the true heir. So the next day
+A-bra-ham gave food and drink to Ha-gar and sent
+her and her child out of his house.</p>
+
+<p>And Ha-gar
+took her
+boy and went
+to the waste
+lands of Beer-she-ba.</p>
+
+<p>And when
+there was
+nought for the
+child to drink,
+he grew weak,
+and was like
+to die. And
+Ha-gar laid
+him 'neath a
+bush and went
+off and sat
+down and hid
+her face, and
+wept, for she
+loved her boy
+ve-ry much and did not want to see him die.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 328px;">
+<img src="images/i_011.jpg" width="328" height="400" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">DE-STRUC-TION OF THE CIT-IES OF THE PLAIN.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And a voice spoke to Ha-gar out of the sky, and
+said, What ails thee, Ha-gar? Fear not, for God<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span>
+hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Rise,
+lift up the lad and hold him in thine arms.</p>
+
+<p>And the voice told her that her son should be
+the head of a great tribe. And as she raised her
+eyes she saw a well of wa-ter, and she ran to it and
+gave her son a drink and he was soon strong and
+well once more.</p>
+
+<p>And God was kind to Ish-ma-el, and he grew,
+and made his home in the woods, and came to have
+great skill with the bow.</p>
+
+<p>Now it was God's wish to try the faith of A-bra-ham
+to him.</p>
+
+<p>And he told him to take his son, I-saac, and go
+to the land of Mo-ri-ah, and lay him on the al-tar he
+was to build on one of the mounts there. It was
+not a hard task to kill a lamb, and to burn it so that
+the smoke of it should rise up to God, like praise
+from the hearts of men. But how could A-bra-ham
+take his own dear son, I-saac, and lay him on the
+wood, and let him be burnt up like a lamb?</p>
+
+<p>Yet God told him to do it, and A-bra-ham knew
+that it was safe for him to do as God said.</p>
+
+<p>So he rose the next day and took two of his
+young men with him, and I-saac his son, and cut the
+wood the right length, and set out for the mount of
+which God had told him.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i_012.jpg" width="600" height="455" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">HA-GAR AND ISH-MA-EL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And as they drew near the place he took the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span>
+wood from the ass and laid it on I-saac's back, and
+took the fire in his hand and a knife, and the two
+went up the mount.</p>
+
+<p>Now I-saac did not know what the Lord had
+told A-bra-ham to do, nor why his fa-ther took him
+up to the mount. And he said, Here is the fire and
+the wood, but where is the lamb?</p>
+
+<p>And A-bra-ham said, My son, God will give us
+the lamb we need.</p>
+
+<p>And when they came to the place, A-bra-ham
+piled up the stones and put the wood on them, and
+bound I-saac and laid him on the wood.</p>
+
+<p>Then he drew forth the knife to kill his son.
+And just then a voice from the sky cried out, A-bra-ham!
+A-bra-ham! And A-bra-ham said, Here am I.</p>
+
+<p>And the Lord told him to do no harm to I-saac,
+for now he knew that A-bra-ham loved him, since he
+would not spare his own dear son if it was God's
+wish that he should give him up.</p>
+
+<p>And as A-bra-ham turned his head he saw a ram
+that was caught in a bush, and he took the ram and
+laid it on the wood, and burnt it in-stead of his son.</p>
+
+<p>At the end of a few years A-bra-ham went to live
+at Heb-ron. And Sa-rah died there.</p>
+
+<p>When I-saac grew up to be a man, A-bra-ham
+did not wish him to take a wife from the land of Ca-naan
+where they served strange gods.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>So he sent one of his men to the land where he
+used to live to bring back a wife for I-saac.</p>
+
+<p>And as he drew near to a large town in that
+land he made his cam-els
+kneel down by a
+well. And it was the
+time of day when the
+wo-men of the place
+went out to draw wa-ter
+from the well.</p>
+
+<p>And the man
+whom A-bra-ham had
+sent, asked God to
+help him, and to let
+him know which one
+of them was to be
+I-saac's wife. And
+he said he would ask
+one of them for a
+drink, and if she was
+kind and gave him a
+drink, and let his
+cam-els quench their
+thirst, then he should
+know that she was the one God chose to be the wife
+of A-bra-ham's son.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 272px;">
+<img src="images/i_013.jpg" width="272" height="400" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">RE-BEK-AH AT THE WELL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And he raised his heart to God and said, O<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span>
+Lord God of A-bra-ham, give me good speed this
+day.</p>
+
+<p>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 filled. And the man ran to meet
+her, and said to her, Let me drink, I pray thee.</p>
+
+<p>And she said, Drink, my Lord, and held the jar
+in her hand so that he could drink with ease.</p>
+
+<p>Then she said, I will give thy cam-els a drink;
+and she went down to the well and drew for all the
+cam-els. And the man stood still, and was yet
+in doubt if this was the maid whom God chose to be
+I-saac's wife.</p>
+
+<p>And as soon as the cam-els had drunk their fill,
+the man took a gold ear-ring, and two bands of gold
+for the wrists, and gave them to Re-bek-ah. And
+he said, Whose child art thou? tell me, I pray
+thee. And is there room in thy sire's house for us
+to lodge in?</p>
+
+<p>The maid said that her sire's name was Beth-u-el,
+and that there was no lack of straw and food,
+and there was room in the house where he and his
+men might lodge.</p>
+
+<p>The man was glad when he heard this, for he
+knew the Lord had led him, and had brought him
+to the house to which he was sent. And he bowed
+his head and gave thanks.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 449px;">
+<img src="images/i_014.jpg" width="449" height="600" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">RE-BEK-AH JOUR-NEY-ING TO I-SAAC.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The next day Re-bek-ah and her maids went
+with A-bra-ham's head man. And they came to the
+land of Ca-naan.</p>
+
+<p>At the close of the day I-saac went to walk in the
+fields, and as he raised his eyes he saw the cam-els
+on their way home, and he went out to meet them.</p>
+
+<p>Re-bek-ah said to the man with whom she rode,
+What man is this that comes through the field to
+meet us?</p>
+
+<p>And the man told her that it was A-bra-ham's
+son, I-saac.</p>
+
+<p>Then the maid drew her veil round her so as to
+hide her face, and came down from the cam-el. And
+I-saac took her to his house and made her his wife.
+And A-bra-ham gave, all that he had to I-saac; and
+when he died he was laid by the side of Sa-rah, his
+wife, in the tomb he had bought at Mach-pe-lah.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 455px;">
+<img src="images/i_015.jpg" width="455" height="600" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">THE MEET-ING OF I-SAAC AND RE-BEK-AH.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And to this day no one has had such faith or
+trust in God as did A-bra-ham.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER IV.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>JACOB AND ESAU.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">I-saac</span> and Re-bek-ah had two sons. Their
+names were Ja-cob and E-sau. E-sau was the first-born,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span>
+and in those days the first-born son had what
+was called the birth-right. This made him chief of
+all the rest, and heir to the most of his sire's wealth.</p>
+
+<p>When the boys grew up to be men, E-sau took
+to the fields and to out-door sports, while Ja-cob
+was a plain man and dwelt in tents. And I-saac
+was fond of E-sau, who killed the deer, and brought
+him the meat to eat. But Re-bek-ah was more fond
+of Ja-cob.</p>
+
+<p>One day Ja-cob had made some food called pot-tage,
+and E-sau came in from the field and said,
+Feed me, I pray thee, with that pot-tage, for I am
+faint.</p>
+
+<p>And Ja-cob said, Sell me thy birth-right.</p>
+
+<p>And E-sau said, I am at the point of death, so
+what good will a birth-right do me?</p>
+
+<p>So he sold his birth-right to Ja-cob&mdash;which was
+a wrong thing for him to do&mdash;and took the bread
+and meat, and ate and drank, and then went on his
+way.</p>
+
+<p>Now there came a time when I-saac was an old
+man, and his eyes were dim, for he had not long to
+live. 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 of, that he
+might eat it and bless E-sau ere he died.</p>
+
+<p>And Re-bek-ah heard what I-saac had said to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span>
+E-sau, and she told it to Ja-cob. And she said to
+him, Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence
+two good kids, and I will make such a dish as thy
+fa-ther loves. And
+thou shalt bring it to
+him that he may eat,
+and that he may bless
+thee ere his death.</p>
+
+<p>So Ja-cob did as
+he was told, and
+brought the kids to his
+mo-ther that she
+might cook them in
+a way that would
+please the good man
+of the house.</p>
+
+<p>Then Re-bek-ah
+put some of E-sau's
+clothes on Ja-cob, and
+put the skins of goats
+on his hands, for
+E-sau's hands had on
+them a thick coat of
+hair. And then Ja-cob took the meat and the
+bread and went in to his fa-ther.</p>
+
+<p>And I-saac said, Who art thou, my son?</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 280px;">
+<img src="images/i_016.jpg" width="280" height="400" alt="Issac amd Esau" />
+<span class="caption">I-SAAC SPEAK-ING TO E-SAU.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And Ja-cob said, I am E-sau, thy first-born.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span>
+Rise, I pray thee, and eat of the deer's meat I have
+brought, that thy soul may bless me.</p>
+
+<p>And I-saac said to Ja-cob, How is it that thou
+hast found it so soon, my son?</p>
+
+<p>And he said, The Lord thy God brought it to me.</p>
+
+<p>And I-saac said to Ja-cob, Come near, I pray
+thee, that I may feel thee, my son, and know if thou
+be my son E-sau or not. And Ja-cob went near to
+his fa-ther and he felt him, and said, The voice is
+Ja-cob's voice, but the hands are the hands of E-sau.</p>
+
+<p>And he said, Art thou in truth my son E-sau?</p>
+
+<p>And Ja-cob said, I am.</p>
+
+<p>And he said, Bring near the food, and I will eat,
+that my soul may bless thee.</p>
+
+<p>And Ja-cob brought it near to him, and he did
+eat, and he brought him wine and he drank.</p>
+
+<p>And his fa-ther said to him, Come near now, and
+kiss me, my son.</p>
+
+<p>And he came near, and gave him the kiss. Then
+the old man asked God to bless this whom he
+thought was his first-born, and make him great, and
+give him all good things.</p>
+
+<p>Ja-cob was scarce yet gone out from his fa-ther
+when E-sau came in from the hunt. And he
+brought in a nice dish of meat, and said, Let my fa-ther
+rise and eat of the flesh of the deer, that thy
+soul may bless me.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And I-saac said, Who art thou?</p>
+
+<p>And he said, I am thy son, thy first-born, E-sau.</p>
+
+<p>And I-saac shook like a leaf, and said, Who?
+Where is he that took deer's meat and brought it to
+me so that I did eat ere
+this, and bless him?
+Yea, and he shall be
+blest.</p>
+
+<p>When E-sau heard
+these words he cried out
+with great grief, and said
+to his fa-ther, Bless me
+too, O my fa-ther!</p>
+
+<p>But I-saac said that
+he could not take from
+Ja-cob what was now
+his&mdash;though he had won
+it through fraud.</p>
+
+<p>And E-sau said in
+his heart, My fa-ther will
+soon be dead, and then
+I will kill Ja-cob.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 280px;">
+<img src="images/i_017.jpg" width="280" height="400" alt="angels on ladder" />
+<span class="caption">JA-COB&#39;S DREAM.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And these words
+were told to Re-bek-ah, and she sent for Ja-cob and
+said to him that E-sau meant to kill him, and he
+must leave home at once and go and stay with her
+bro-ther La-ban till E-sau's wrath had cooled.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And Ja-cob went out from Beer-she-ba.</p>
+
+<p>And as he went on his way he came to a place
+where he thought he would lie down and rest. The
+sun was set, the day had been a long one, and he
+was quite worn out. So he put some stones for his
+head to rest on, and was soon sound a-sleep.</p>
+
+<p>And while he slept he had a strange dream. He
+saw a flight of steps that stood on the ground, the top
+of which was far, far up in the sky. And bright an-gels
+went up and down the steps. And the Lord
+stood at the top, and said, I am with thee, and will
+take care of thee, and will bring thee back to this
+land, for I will not leave thee till I have done that
+which I have told thee of.</p>
+
+<p>And Ja-cob woke out of his sleep, and said, 'Tis
+true the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.</p>
+
+<p>And he was in great fear, and said, This is the
+house of God, and this is the gate of heav-en!</p>
+
+<p>Then he rose up and took the stone on which
+his head had lain and set it up on end, and he
+poured oil on top of it. And he gave to that place
+the name of Beth-el, and made a vow to love and
+serve God all the rest of his life.</p>
+
+<p>And though he had done wrong, God for-gave
+him, and he was known as a great and good man.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER V.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>JACOB AND RACHEL.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">As</span> Ja-cob went on his way to the East he came
+to a well that was out
+in the field, near which
+lay three great flocks
+of sheep. And there
+was a great stone on
+top of the well. And
+the men who took care
+of the flocks would roll
+the stone from the
+mouth of the well, and
+give drink to the sheep.
+Then they would roll
+the stone back to the
+mouth of the well.</p>
+
+<p>Ja-cob said to the
+men, Whence do ye
+come?</p>
+
+<p>And they told him.</p>
+
+<p>And he said, Know
+ye La-ban, the son of
+Na-hor?</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 261px;">
+<img src="images/i_018.jpg" width="261" height="400" alt="Rachel and Jacob at the well" />
+<span class="caption">RA-CHEL AND JA-COB AT THE WELL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And they said, We know him.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And he said, Is he well?</p>
+
+<p>And they said, He is well. And there is one of
+his girls now, Ra-chel, and she comes this way with
+her sheep.</p>
+
+<p>While Ja-cob yet spake with the men, Ra-chel
+came up with the sheep that she took care of. And
+when Ja-cob saw her, he came near, and drew the
+stone from the mouth of the well, and gave drink to
+the whole of her flock.</p>
+
+<p>And as soon as he told her that he was Re-bek-ah's
+son, she ran home with the news.</p>
+
+<p>And when La-ban heard that his sis-ter's son was
+near, he ran out to meet him, and threw his arms
+round his neck and kissed him, and brought him
+to his house.</p>
+
+<p>And Ja-cob dwelt there for the space of a month.</p>
+
+<p>And La-ban said to Ja-cob, Thou art bone of my
+bone and flesh of my flesh, but it is not right for thee
+to serve me for nought. Tell me how much I shall
+pay thee?</p>
+
+<p>Now La-ban had two girls&mdash;Le-ah and Ra-chel.
+And Ja-cob was in love with Ra-chel; and he said
+to La-ban, I will serve thee se-ven years if thou wilt
+give me Ra-chel for a wife.</p>
+
+<p>And La-ban said it would please him to have
+Ja-cob for a son-in-law, and Ja-cob served sev-en years
+for Ra-chel, and they seemed to him but a few days,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span>
+so great was his love for her. And at the end of
+that time Ja-cob said to La-ban, Give me my wife,
+for I have served thee my full time.</p>
+
+<p>And La-ban made a feast, and brought in Le-ah
+to be Ja-cob's wife. In those days the bride wore a
+veil, and the man she wed could not look on her face
+till the next day.</p>
+
+<p>So Ja-cob did not find out this trick till the next
+morn, and then he came in great wrath to La-ban
+and said, What is this thou hast done to us? Did I
+not serve with thee for Ra-chel? and why did'st thou
+cheat me?</p>
+
+<p>And La-ban said, In our land the first-born must
+wed the first. Serve me sev-en years more, and thou
+shalt have Ra-chel for a wife. And Ja-cob did so,
+and though he dwelt with both&mdash;which was thought
+to be no sin in those days&mdash;he was far more fond of
+Ra-chel than he was of Le-ah.</p>
+
+<p>Le-ah bore Ja-cob a host of sons, but it was years
+ere Ra-chel had a child. And this made her sad.
+But at last she had a son, and she called his name
+Jo-seph. And as soon as Jo-seph was born Ja-cob
+told La-ban to give him his wives and all the goods
+that he owned, and let him go back to the land he
+came from.</p>
+
+<p>But La-ban begged him to stay. He had found,
+he said, that the Lord had blest him for Ja-cob's<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span>
+sake, and he might have some of the land and the
+flocks if he would still serve him.</p>
+
+<p>So Ja-cob took care of La-ban's flocks, and had
+sheep and goats of his own, and things went well
+for a time.</p>
+
+<p>But one day Ja-cob heard La-ban's sons say some
+hard things of him, and he saw that La-ban did not
+give him the kind looks that he used to. And he
+felt that the time had come for them to part. And
+the Lord told Ja-cob to go back to the land he came
+from, and he would deal well with him. And Ja-cob
+took his wives, and the flocks and the goods he
+owned, and set out for the land of Ca-naan.</p>
+
+<p>Ja-cob sent one of his men to E-sau to say that
+he was on his way home, and was in hopes he would
+find grace in his sight.</p>
+
+<p>And the man brought back word that E-sau was
+on his way to meet Ja-cob with a large force of men.
+And Ja-cob thought of the wrongs he had done his
+broth-er, and was in great fear of him.</p>
+
+<p>He sought the help of God, and God told him
+what to do. And Ja-cob sent great droves of sheep
+and goats, and ewes and rams, and ca-mels and colts,
+and cows, and choice ones from all his live stock, as
+a gift to E-sau.</p>
+
+<p>And at night, when no one else was near, a man
+whose face shone with a strange light, came to Ja-cob<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span>
+and wound his arms round him and tried to
+throw him. And the two strove so hard that
+Ja-cob's thigh was put out of joint.</p>
+
+<p>And as it grew
+light the man said, Let
+me go, for the day
+breaks.</p>
+
+<p>Ja-cob said, I will
+not let thee go till thou
+hast blest me.</p>
+
+<p>And the man said,
+What is thy name?
+And he said, Ja-cob.</p>
+
+<p>And he said, Thy
+name shall be no more
+Ja-cob but Is-ra-el, for
+as a prince thou hast
+pow-er with God and
+with men.</p>
+
+<p>And when he had
+blest Ja-cob he went
+his way. And Ja-cob
+gave the place the name
+of Pe-ni-el, for, said he,
+I have seen God face to face and my life has been
+spared. For Ja-cob knew by this that E-sau would
+not kill him.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 259px;">
+<img src="images/i_019.jpg" width="259" height="400" alt="Jacob and Esau's reunion" />
+<span class="caption">THE MEET-ING OF JA-COB AND E-SAU.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When Ja-cob was an old, old man Ra-chel bore
+him a son; and they called his name Ben-ja-min.
+And Ra-chel died. And it was hard for Ja-cob to
+have her die and leave him, for his love for her was
+great, and she was a good wife to him.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER VI.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Ja-cob</span> had twelve sons, and he was more fond of
+Jo-seph than of all the rest; for he was the child of
+his old age. And he gave him a fine coat, and made
+a great pet of him. This did not please the rest of
+the sons, and they showed their hate of Jo-seph in
+all sorts of ways.</p>
+
+<p>One night Jo-seph had a strange dream, and he
+told it to Le-vi, Sim-e-on, and the rest, and it made
+them hate him all the more.</p>
+
+<p>He said, As we bound sheaves in the field, lo,
+my sheaf rose and stood up straight. And your
+sheaves stood round, and bowed to my sheaf.</p>
+
+<p>And those who heard him said, Shalt thou in-deed
+reign o'er us? And his words and his deeds
+filled them with a fierce hate.</p>
+
+<p>And it was not long ere he told them of a fresh<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span>
+dream he had had, in which he saw the sun and
+moon and e-lev-en stars bow down to him. And he
+told it to Ja-cob,
+and his e-lev-en
+sons.</p>
+
+<p>And Ja-cob
+took him to task,
+and said to him,
+What does this
+dream mean? Are
+all of us to bow
+down to the earth
+to thee? And he
+made up his mind
+to watch these
+signs, which might
+be sent of God.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 355px;">
+<img src="images/i_020.jpg" width="355" height="500" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">JO-SEPH&#39;S DREAM.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now Ja-cob
+had large flocks
+of sheep and goats
+at Shech-em, and
+all of his sons but
+Jo-seph had gone
+there to feed them.
+And Ja-cob said to Jo-seph, Go and see if it be well
+with thy breth-ren, and with the flocks, and bring me
+back word.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And Jo-seph went out from the vale of Heb-ron
+to the land of Shech-em.</p>
+
+<p>When he came there he found that his broth-ers
+had gone on to Do-than. And <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Ja-cob'">Jo-seph</ins> went to Do-than
+and found them. And as soon as he came in
+sight they thought of a way in which they might get
+rid of him.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i_021.jpg" width="400" height="280" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">SHECH-EM, THE FIRST CAP-I-TAL OF THE KING-DOM OF IS-RAEL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Come, let us kill him, they said; and throw him
+in-to a pit, and say that a wild beast ate him up.
+Then we shall see what will be-come of his dreams.</p>
+
+<p>But Reu-ben heard it, and saved him out of their
+hands. And he said, Let us not kill the lad. Shed
+no blood; but cast him in-to this pit, and lay no hand<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span>
+on him. For he meant to take him out of the pit,
+and bear him home to his fath-er.</p>
+
+<p>But when Jo-seph came near these men who
+should have been kind
+to him, they took off his
+coat and threw him in-to
+the pit, which was dry,
+or he would have
+drowned. These old
+dry wells were left as
+traps in which to catch
+the wild beasts that
+prowled round in the
+dead of night, and well
+these bad men knew
+what would be Jo-seph's
+fate.</p>
+
+<p>As they sat down to
+eat, they looked up and
+saw a lot of men and
+cam-els on their way to
+E-gypt, with spices, and
+balm and myrrh.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 247px;">
+<img src="images/i_022.jpg" width="247" height="400" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">JO-SEPH SOLD BY HIS BROTH-ERS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And Ju-dah&mdash;one of Ja-cob's sons&mdash;said, Let us
+not kill the lad, for he is of our own flesh, but let us
+sell him to these men. And the rest thought it was
+a good scheme. So they drew Jo-seph up out of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span>
+pit and sold him for a small sum, and those who
+bought the lad took him down with them to E-gypt.</p>
+
+<p>And the bad men took Jo-seph's coat and dipped
+it in the blood of a kid they had slain. And they
+brought it to Ja-cob, and said, This have we found.
+Is it thy son's coat?</p>
+
+<p>And Ja-cob knew it at once, and said, It is my
+son's coat. Jo-seph has no doubt been the prey of
+some wild beast. And his grief was great.</p>
+
+<p>The men who bought Jo-seph brought him down
+to E-gypt and sold him to Pot-i-phar for a slave.</p>
+
+<p>And the Lord was with Jo-seph, who served Pot-i-phar
+so well, that the rich man put him in charge of
+his home and lands. But Pot-i-phar's wife told false
+tales, and Jo-seph, who had done no wrong, was thrust
+in-to jail. Pha-ra-oh was then king of E-gypt. And
+it came to pass that he fell out with his but-ler and
+chief cook, and had them shut up in the same place
+where Jo-seph was bound.</p>
+
+<p>And the man on guard put them in charge of Jo-seph,
+who went in and out of the ward as he chose.
+And one morn when he came in to them he saw they
+were sad, and asked them why it was.</p>
+
+<p>And they said, We have dreamed dreams, and
+there is no one to tell us what they mean.</p>
+
+<p>And Jo-seph said, Tell me them, I pray you.</p>
+
+<p>And the chief but-ler told his dream to Jo-seph<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span>
+first. And he said, In my dream I saw a vine, that put
+forth three branch-es and brought forth ripe grapes.</p>
+
+<p>And Jo-seph said to him, In three days shall
+Pha-ra-oh lift
+up thine head,
+and put thee
+back in thy
+place, and thou
+shalt serve him
+as of old. But
+think of me
+when it shall
+be well with
+thee; speak of
+me to the king,
+and bring me
+out of this house.</p>
+
+<p>And the
+but-ler said that
+he would.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 340px;">
+<img src="images/i_023.jpg" width="340" height="400" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">JO-SEPH&#39;S COAT.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then the
+chief cook told
+his dream; and
+he said, In my dream I had three white bas-kets on
+my head. And in the top one were all sorts of bake
+meats for the king. And the birds did eat out of
+the bas-ket that I bore on my head.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And Jo-seph said to him, In three days shall
+Pha-ra-oh lift up thy head and hang thee on a tree;
+and the birds shall eat the flesh from thy bones.</p>
+
+<p>The third day was the king's birth-day, and he
+made a great feast. And he put the chief but-ler
+back in his place, and hung the chief cook; just as
+Jo-seph had said he would do. But the chief but-ler
+gave not a thought to Jo-seph, nor spoke one good
+word for him to the king, as he had said he would.</p>
+
+<p>Two years from this time the king had a dream,
+from which he woke, and then fell a-sleep and dreamt
+the self-same dream. This was such a strange thing
+that it made the king feel ill at ease. And he sent
+for all the wise men in the land to tell him what these
+dreams meant.</p>
+
+<p>Then the chief but-ler spoke to the king, and said
+that when he and the cook were in jail, there was a
+young man there, a Jew, whom the chief of the guard
+made much use of. And we told him our dreams,
+and he told us what they meant. And it came out
+just as he said.</p>
+
+<p>Then the king sent at once for Jo-seph, and said
+to him: In my dream I stood on the bank of the
+Nile. And there came up out of the riv-er sev-en fat
+cows, and they fed in a field near by. Then sev-en
+lean cows came up that were naught but skin and
+bone. And the lean cows ate up the fat cows. And<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span>
+yet no one would have known it, for they were just
+as lean as when I first saw them. Then I woke,
+but soon fell a-sleep once more.</p>
+
+<p>Then I dreamt, and in my dream I saw sev-en
+ears of corn come up on one stalk, full and good.
+And lo, sev-en ears
+that were thin and
+dried up with the east
+wind sprang up af-ter
+them. And the poor
+ears ate up the good
+ones.</p>
+
+<p>Jo-seph said, For
+sev-en years there will
+be no lack of food in
+the land, and all will
+go well; and then there
+will come a time of
+great want, and rich
+and poor will be in
+need of food, and not
+a few will starve to
+death. Let the king choose a wise man to see that
+corn is laid up in the land when the good years
+bring the rich growth, so that there will be no lack
+of food in the years when the crops are small.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/i_024.jpg" width="290" height="350" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">PHA-RA-OH&#39;S DREAM.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And the king said to Jo-seph, Since God hath<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span>
+showed thee all this there is none so wise as thou
+art. So he put him in charge of all the land of
+E-gypt, and he was to rank next to the king. And
+the king took a ring from his own hand and put it
+on Jo-seph's hand, and when he rode out, men bowed
+the knee, and his word was law in all the land.
+And Jo-seph took a wife, and he who was brought
+to E-gypt a slave, was now a rich man.</p>
+
+<p>And there came years when the grain grew rank
+in the fields, and the crops were large. And Jo-seph
+saw that a large part of it was laid up, and that there
+was no waste of the good food. For the end of those
+rich years came and then there was a time of dearth
+in all the lands, when the earth would not yield, and
+men and beasts were in want of food.</p>
+
+<p>But there was no lack of corn in E-gypt. And
+Jo-seph sold the corn that he had stored in the
+barns, and crowds came in to buy it.</p>
+
+<p>When Ja-cob heard that corn could be bought in
+E-gypt, he told his sons to go down and buy some,
+that they might not starve to death.</p>
+
+<p>And ten of them went down to buy corn in
+E-gypt. But Ja-cob kept Ben-ja-min at home,
+for fear he would be lost to him as Jo-seph was
+lost.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 486px;">
+<img src="images/i_025.jpg" width="486" height="600" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">JO-SEPH AND HIS BROTH-ERS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>When Ja-cob's ten sons came to the place where
+Jo-seph was, they bowed down to the ground. And<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span>
+Jo-seph knew them at once, but they did not know
+him, or give a thought to his dreams.</p>
+
+<p>And Jo-seph spoke in a rough voice, and said,
+Whence come ye?</p>
+
+<p>And they said, From the land of Ca-naan to buy
+food.</p>
+
+<p>And he said, Ye are spies, and have come to see
+how poor the land is.</p>
+
+<p>And they said to him, Nay, my lord, but to buy
+food are we come. We are all one man's sons; and
+we are true men, and not spies.</p>
+
+<p>But Jo-seph would have it that they were
+spies.</p>
+
+<p>And they said, There were twelve of us, sons of
+one man. Young Ben-ja-min is at home with his
+fa-ther, and one is dead.</p>
+
+<p>And Jo-seph said, Go prove that ye are not spies;
+let one of the ten that are here go and fetch the young
+lad, Ben-ja-min. And he put them in jail for three
+days. And he said, Let one of you be bound, and
+kept in the guard-house, while the rest of you take
+back the corn that you need. And they said that
+they would do this.</p>
+
+<p>Then he took Sim-e-on from their midst, and had
+him bound, and put in the guard-house.</p>
+
+<p>And he sent word to his men to fill their sacks
+with corn, and to put back the price in each sack, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span>
+to give them food to eat on the way. And thus did
+Jo-seph do good to those who did ill to him.</p>
+
+<p>When Ja-cob's nine sons went home they told all
+that had been
+said and done
+to them, and
+that the lord of
+the land bade
+them bring
+Ben-ja-min
+down to E-gypt
+or he would
+think they were
+spies, and their
+lives would not
+be safe.</p>
+
+<p>Ja-cob said,
+My son shall
+not go down
+with you, for
+his broth-er is
+dead, and he is
+all I have left.
+If harm should come to him on the way, I should
+die of grief.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 336px;">
+<img src="images/i_026.jpg" width="336" height="400" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">THE MEET-ING OF JO-SEPH AND BEN-JA-MIN.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>When the corn they had brought from E-gypt
+was all gone, Ja-cob told his sons to go down and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span>
+buy more. And Ju-dah spoke up and said, The
+man swore we should not see his face if Ben-ja-min
+was not with us. If thou wilt send him with us we
+will go; but if thou wilt not send him we will not
+go down.</p>
+
+<p>Then Ja-cob said, If it must be so, take Ben-ja-min
+with you, and may God give you grace with this
+man that he may send my two boys back to me.</p>
+
+<p>So the men took Ben-ja-min and went down to
+E-gypt, and stood face to face with Jo-seph.</p>
+
+<p>And they gave Jo-seph the gifts they had brought,
+and bowed down to the earth. And he asked how
+they all were, and if their fath-er was well; and when
+he saw Ben-ja-min he said, Is this the young broth-er
+of whom you spoke? And he said to the lad, God
+be good to thee, my son.</p>
+
+<p>And Jo-seph's heart was so full at sight of the
+boy, and he longed so to throw his arms round him,
+that he had to make haste and leave the room that
+his tears might not be seen.</p>
+
+<p>Then he came back and had the feast set out,
+and all did eat and drink, and were glad at heart.
+And when the time came for his guests to leave, Jo-seph
+told his head man to fill their sacks with corn,
+to put their gold back in the mouth of the sacks, and
+to put in the young lad's sack the cup from which
+Jo-seph drank at each meal.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>This was done, and when they had gone out of
+the town Jo-seph bade his man go and say to them:
+My lord's cup is lost, and you must know who stole it.</p>
+
+<p>And when the man came up with Ja-cob's sons, he
+said just what
+Jo-seph told him
+to say. And
+they were all in
+a rage, and said:
+Why does my
+lord say such
+things of us? If
+the cup is found
+on one of us,
+kill him; and
+make the rest
+of us slaves.</p>
+
+<p>And each
+one of them cast
+his sack on the
+ground, and
+loosed it at the
+top. And the cup was found in Ben-ja-min's sack.
+Then they rent their clothes, and in great grief went
+back to Jo-seph's house and found him there. And
+they fell down at his feet.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 328px;">
+<img src="images/i_027.jpg" width="328" height="350" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">JA-COB BLESS-ES JO-SEPH&#39;S CHIL-DREN.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And Ju-dah said, God has found out our sins.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span>
+Let us be your slaves; and take him as well in whose
+sack the cup was found.</p>
+
+<p>Jo-seph said, No; but the man in whose sack the
+cup was found shall stay and serve me, and the rest
+shall go in peace.</p>
+
+<p>Then Ju-dah, who had sworn that he would bring
+back the boy, said to Jo-seph: If we go home, and
+our fath-er sees the lad is not with us, he will die of
+grief. For his life is bound up in the lad's life.</p>
+
+<p>Jo-seph could not keep back his tears, and when
+he had sent all the men of E-gypt out of the room,
+he said to his broth-ers, Come near, I pray you.</p>
+
+<p>And they came near. And he said, I am Jo-seph,
+whom ye sold in-to E-gypt. But grieve not
+that ye did this thing, for God did send me here that
+I might save your lives. Go home and tell my fath-er
+that God hath made me lord of all E-gypt, and bid
+him come down to me at once. And say that he
+shall dwell near me, in the land of Go-shen, and I
+will take care of him.</p>
+
+<p>Then he fell on Ben-ja-min's neck, and they wept;
+and he kissed his broth-ers and shed tears, but they
+were tears of joy.</p>
+
+<p>Ja-cob took all that he had and went down to
+E-gypt. And three-score and ten souls went with
+him. And they dwelt in the land of Go-shen, and
+Ja-cob died there.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Jo-seph's breth-ren thought that he would hate
+them now that their fath-er was dead. And they
+fell down at his feet and wept and prayed that he
+would do them no harm.</p>
+
+<p>Jo-seph bade them fear not, for he would take
+care of them and be kind to them. They had meant
+to do him an ill turn when he was a lad, but God
+had made it turn out for good, and it was all right.
+And Jo-seph lived to a good old age, and had two
+sons, whose names were E-phra-im and Ma-nas-seh.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER VII.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>THROUGH THE RED SEA AND THE WILDERNESS.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">By</span> and by there rose up a new King in E-gypt
+who knew not Jo-seph. He was called Pha-ra-oh, as
+this was the name by which all the kings of E-gypt
+were known. And he said there were more He-brews,
+or Jews, in the land than there ought to be,
+and if war should break out, and these Jews should
+take sides with the foes of Pha-ra-oh and his race,
+they would be sure to win. So he set them hard
+tasks, and made them bear great loads, and did all he
+could to vex them, and still they grew in strength.
+God had said they were to be as the stars in the sky,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span>
+and as the sands of the sea, that no one could count.
+And the king of E-gypt tried to stop this thing.</p>
+
+<p>And he made it a law that if a boy child was
+born to the He-brews it should be put to death at
+once; but a girl child might live. And this was the
+cause of great grief to the poor bond-slaves, who
+were forced to do the will of the great king.</p>
+
+<p>One day the prin-cess went down to bathe in the
+stream that ran near her house. And her maids
+went with her. And as she stood on the shore of the
+Nile, she caught sight of a small boat built like an
+ark, that was hid in the reeds, and sent her maids to
+fetch it out.</p>
+
+<p>When the prin-cess looked in the ark she saw the
+child. And the babe wept. And the prin-cess
+tried to soothe it, but the child cried the more, for her
+voice was a strange one. And she said, This is a
+He-brew child.</p>
+
+<p>And one of her maids spoke up, and said, Shall I
+get thee a He-brew nurse, that she may nurse the
+child for thee?</p>
+
+<p>And the prin-cess said, Yes; go.</p>
+
+<p>And the maid brought her own and the babe's
+moth-er, to whom the prin-cess said, Take this child
+and nurse it for me, and I will pay thee for it.</p>
+
+<p>And the wo-man took the child and took care
+of it.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 463px;">
+<img src="images/i_028.jpg" width="463" height="600" alt="baby moses" />
+<span class="caption">THE FIND-ING OF MO-SES.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And the child grew, and was brought down to
+Pha-ra-oh's house, and the prin-cess made him her
+son, and gave him the name of Mo-ses: which
+means "Drawn out."</p>
+
+<p>One day, when Mo-ses had grown to be a man,
+he went out to look at those of his own race, and to
+watch them at their tasks. And while he stood
+there a man from E-gypt struck one of the Jews;
+and when Mo-ses looked to the right and to the left
+and saw that no one was near, he slew the one from
+E-gypt and hid him in the sand.</p>
+
+<p>And the next day, when he went out, he saw
+there was a fight be-tween two He-brews. And he
+said to the one who was in the wrong, Why did you
+strike that man?</p>
+
+<p>And he said, Who made thee our judge? Dost
+thou want to kill me, as thou didst the one from
+E-gypt?</p>
+
+<p>And Mo-ses was scared, for he thought no one
+knew of this deed.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as it came to the ears of the king, he
+sought to slay Mo-ses. But Mo-ses fled from him,
+and dwelt in the land of Mid-i-an, and found a wife
+there, and took care of the flocks of Jeth-ro, his
+wife's fath-er.</p>
+
+<p>One day as he led his flock out in search of food
+he came to Mount Ho-reb, and there he saw a flame<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span>
+of fire stream out of a bush, and the bush was not
+burnt in the least.</p>
+
+<p>As he drew near the bush the Lord spoke to him
+out of the flame, and Mo-ses
+hid his face, for he
+dared not look on God.</p>
+
+<p>The Lord said, The
+cry of the chil-dren of Is-ra-el
+has come up to me,
+and I have seen how ill
+they have been used.
+And I will send thee to
+Pha-ra-oh that thou mayst
+bring them forth out of
+the land of E-gypt.</p>
+
+<p>But Mo-ses was loth
+to go.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 246px;">
+<img src="images/i_029.jpg" width="246" height="400" alt="Moses and pharaoh's daughter" />
+<span class="caption">MO-SES BROUGHT BE-FORE PHA-RA-OH&#39;S DAUGH-TER.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And the Lord said,
+What is that in thine
+hand? And Mo-ses said,
+A rod, And the Lord
+said, Cast it on the
+ground. And he cast it
+on the ground, and it was changed to a snake, and
+Mo-ses fled from it. Then the Lord said to Mo-ses,
+Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And
+Mo-ses did so, and it was a rod in his hand. And<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span>
+the Lord said, Put now thy hand in on thy breast.
+And he put it in, and when he drew it out it was
+white, and like a dead hand. And he put his hand
+in once more, and drew it out, and it was like the
+rest of his flesh.</p>
+
+<p>Then Mo-ses said, O, my Lord, I am not fit to do
+this work, for I am slow of speech, and a man of few
+words.</p>
+
+<p>And the Lord said to him, I will be with thee,
+and teach thee what thou wilt say.</p>
+
+<p>Still Mo-ses was loth to go, and the Lord was
+wroth with him, and said, Take Aa-ron with thee.
+He can speak well. And thou shalt tell him what
+to say and do, and I will teach you, and with this
+rod in thy hand thou shalt do great things, as if thou
+wert God.</p>
+
+<p>So Mo-ses took his wife and his sons and put
+them on an ass, and went back to E-gypt with the rod
+of God in his hand.</p>
+
+<p>And Mo-ses and Aa-ron went in to the king and
+begged him to let the He-brews go out of the land.
+And he would not, but laid more work on the men,
+and bade them make bricks with-out straw, and do
+all sorts of hard tasks.</p>
+
+<p>And the Lord sent plagues on the land, and the
+ponds dried up, and all the large streams were turned
+to blood, and the fish died, and the stench of them<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span>
+made the air scarce fit to breathe. And there was
+no wa-ter they could drink. Then there came a
+plague of frogs,
+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
+time.</p>
+
+<p>But the
+king did not
+keep his word,
+for as soon as he
+found the frogs
+grew less, he
+said the He-brews
+should
+not go.</p>
+
+<p>Then the
+Lord smote the land with lice; but still Pha-ra-oh's
+heart was hard.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 392px;">
+<img src="images/i_030.jpg" width="392" height="500" alt="the bush" />
+<span class="caption">MOS-ES AT THE BURN-ING BUSH.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then the Lord sent flies in such swarms that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span>
+there was no place that was free from them, and they
+made the food not fit to eat.</p>
+
+<p>And the king told Mo-ses he would let the bond-slaves
+go to serve their God, but they were not to go
+far till the land was rid of flies. Then Mo-ses went
+forth and prayed to God, and the flies left the land.
+But still the king's heart was hard, and he would
+not let them go.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Lord sent worse plagues: the flocks
+and herds died; there were boils on man and beast;
+the crops did not come up, and rain, hail, and balls
+of fire came down from the sky. And still the heart
+of the king was as hard as stone. Then the Lord
+sent lo-custs, that ate up all the hail had left, and
+there was not a green leaf on the trees nor a blade of
+grass to be seen in the whole land.</p>
+
+<p>And the king bade Mo-ses to set him free from
+this plague. And the Lord sent a strong west wind,
+that blew the flies in-to the Red Sea. Yet Pha-ra-oh
+would not let the He-brews go.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Lord told Mo-ses to stretch out his
+hand, and there came up a thick cloud that made the
+land so dark that the folks staid in bed for three
+days. And Pha-ra-oh said to Mo-ses, Get thee out
+of my sight. For if I see thy face thou shalt die.</p>
+
+<p>And Mo-ses said, Thou hast well said: I will see
+thy face no more.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And the Lord sent one more plague on E-gypt:
+he smote the first-born of men and of beasts, and a
+great cry was heard through the land. And then
+Pha-ra-oh had to let
+the chil-dren of Is-ra-el
+go, for he could not
+keep up this strife with
+God. And Mo-ses led
+the He-brew chil-dren
+out of E-gypt, and the
+Lord sent a cloud by
+day and a fire by night
+to show them the
+way.</p>
+
+<p>And when they
+were in camp by the
+Red Sea, they looked
+up and saw Pha-ra-oh
+and his hosts, and were
+in great fear lest he
+should kill them. And
+they cried out to the
+Lord, and blamed
+Mo-ses that he had
+brought them in-to such straits.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 328px;">
+<img src="images/i_031.jpg" width="328" height="500" alt="dancing" />
+<span class="caption">MIR-I-AM, THE SIS-TER OF MO-SES, AND THE WO-MEN OF IS-RAEL SING-ING PRAISES.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>As they came to the Red Sea, Mo-ses raised his
+rod and the sea rose like a wall on each side, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span>
+the chil-dren of Is-ra-el went on dry land through the
+midst of the sea.</p>
+
+<p>Then Pha-ra-oh and his hosts came close in the
+rear, and passed down be-tween the great sea-wall
+that rose at the right hand and at the left. And the
+waves that had stood still at a sign from God were
+let loose, and the king and his horse-men were swept
+out of sight.</p>
+
+<p>When the chil-dren of Is-ra-el came out of the
+Red Sea they were three days with naught to drink.
+And when they came to a stream, called Ma-rah,
+they found it bitter. And they said to Mo-ses,
+What shall we drink?</p>
+
+<p>And Mo-ses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord
+showed him a tree, and when he had cast a branch
+of it in the stream it was made sweet at once. And
+they came to E-lim, where were ten wells and three-score
+palm-trees, and there they made their camp.</p>
+
+<p>It was not long ere there was a great cry for
+bread.</p>
+
+<p>And Mo-ses plead with God, and when the sun
+went down that day quails flew in-to the camp, and
+they had all the meat they cared to eat. At dawn
+of the next day, as soon as the dew was off the ground,
+there came a rain of what was at first thought to be
+hail-stones.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i_032.jpg" width="600" height="463" alt="crossing on dry land" />
+<span class="caption">THE CROSS-ING OF THE RED SEA.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>But Mo-ses said it was food that God had <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'se'">sent</ins>
+them to eat, and they were to take all and no more
+than they would need for one day. For they were
+to trust in God that he would feed them each day.
+On the sixth day they were to take what would last
+them for two days, for no food fell on the day of rest.</p>
+
+<p>This new food was called man-na.</p>
+
+<p>As they went on they came to Reph-i-dim, but
+found no wa-ter to drink. And they found fault
+with Mo-ses. And Mo-ses cried out, Lord, what
+shall I do to these, who have a mind to stone me?</p>
+
+<p>At this time they were near Mount Ho-reb, where
+God spoke to Mo-ses out of a bush that was on fire,
+yet not burnt.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 457px;">
+<img src="images/i_033.jpg" width="457" height="600" alt="Moses and tablet" />
+<span class="caption">MO-SES AND THE TA-BLES OF THE LAW.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And God told Mo-ses to take his rod in his hand
+and go on till he came to a rock. And this rock he
+was to strike with his rod, and wa-ter would flow out
+of it. And Mo-ses did as the Lord told him, and
+when he struck the rock the wa-ter ran out.</p>
+
+<p>In the third month from the time they left E-gypt,
+the chil-dren of Is-ra-el came near Mount Si-na-i, and
+went in-to camp. And Mo-ses went up to the top
+of the Mount, and the Lord spoke to him there.</p>
+
+<p>On the third day a thick cloud of smoke rose
+from Mount Si-na-i, and a loud noise that made
+those that heard it quake with fear. And Mo-ses
+led his flock out of the camp, and they came and
+stood at the foot of the mount. And they said to
+Mo-ses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but
+let not God speak with us lest we die. But Mo-ses
+told them that God had not come to make them die,
+but to make them fear to do aught that did not please
+him.</p>
+
+<p>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 keep.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i_034.jpg" width="400" height="237" alt="oasis" />
+<span class="caption">WELL AND PALM-TREES IN THE DES-ERT.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i_035.jpg" width="400" height="271" alt="" title="the Nile" />
+<span class="caption">THE RIV-ER NILE IN E-GYPT.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now while Mo-ses was in the mount, face to face
+with God, those whom he had brought out of E-gypt
+were in camp at the foot. And Mo-ses staid so
+long that they made up their minds he would not
+come back. So they said to Aa-ron, Make us a God
+that we can bow down to. And Aa-ron bade them
+throw all the gold they had in-to the fire. And they
+did so, and it took the form of a calf. And when
+God saw this he was not pleased, but bade Mo-ses
+make haste down the mount.</p>
+
+<p>When Mo-ses came down from the mount with
+the two flat stones in his hands, and drew near the
+camp, and saw what had been done, he was in a
+great rage. He cast the blocks of stone out of his
+hands and broke them at the foot of the mount.</p>
+
+<p>Then he took the calf which they had made, and
+burnt it in the fire till there was nought left of it but
+a fine dust. And Mo-ses begged God to blot out
+the sins of those whom he had led out of E-gypt.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a><br /><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a><br /><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span>
+And the Lord told Mo-ses to hew out two blocks of
+stone like to the first, and bring them up with him
+to the top of Mount Si-na-i.</p>
+
+<p>This Mo-ses did, and the Lord wrote on them
+the Ten Laws that all were to keep if they would
+reach the land they sought.</p>
+
+<p>They were more than two-score years on the road,
+and in that time they met with plagues, and there
+was strife in their midst, yet as they went there was
+the fire by night and the cloud by day to show that
+the Lord was with them.</p>
+
+<p>When they came to Mount Hor and were yet
+a long way from Ca-naan, Aa-ron died, and there
+was great grief at his loss. They were sick at heart
+and foot-sore, and spoke hard words of God and
+Mo-ses. There is no bread here for us, they said,
+and no wa-ter, and we loathe this man-na. And for
+this sin God sent snakes in-to their camp, and they
+bit the chil-dren of Is-ra-el so that a few of them died.
+Then they plead with Mo-ses to rid them of the
+snakes, and make their peace with God.</p>
+
+<p>And Mo-ses prayed for them. And God told
+him to make a snake like to those which bit
+his flock, and set it up on a pole. And all those
+who would look at this brass snake should be made
+well.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 445px;">
+<img src="images/i_036.jpg" width="445" height="600" alt="Mt. Sinai" />
+<span class="caption">MOS-ES ON MOUNT SINAI.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And Mo-ses did so. And this sign was meant
+to show forth Christ, who was to heal men of their
+sins, and to be raised up on a cross.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 372px;">
+<img src="images/i_037.jpg" width="372" height="500" alt="angel with sword and Balaam" />
+<span class="caption">BA-LAAM AND THE ASS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And Mo-ses
+led his flock till
+they came to
+the plains of
+Mo-ab. And
+Ba-lak, the king
+of that land,
+thought they
+had come to
+fight with him,
+and he sent a
+man named Ba-laam
+out to
+curse them and
+drive them back.
+He told Ba-laam
+he would make
+him a rich man
+if he would do
+this thing, and
+as Ba-laam was
+fond of wealth
+he said he would do <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'the the'">the</ins> king's will. So he set
+forth on his ass, and had not gone far when he met
+an an-gel with a drawn sword in his hand. Ba-laam<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a><br /><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span>
+did not see him, but the ass did and turned out
+of the road. But the an-gel went on and stood in
+a place where there was a wall on each side.</p>
+
+<p>When the ass came to the place she went close
+to the wall and tried to get by. But she hurt Ba-laam's
+foot and he struck her and made her go on.
+And the an-gel went on and stood in a place where
+there was no room to turn to the right hand or the
+left.</p>
+
+<p>Then the ass shook with fright and fell down on
+the ground. And Ba-laam struck her with the staff
+that he had in his hand.</p>
+
+<p>And the Lord made the ass speak like a man,
+and say, What have I done to thee that thou hast
+struck me these three times?</p>
+
+<p>Ba-laam said, To make thee move on: I would
+there were a sword in my hand, for I would kill thee.</p>
+
+<p>Then the ass said, Am I not thine? and have
+I been wont to do so to thee? And Ba-laam said,
+No. Then the Lord made Ba-laam see the an-gel
+that stood in the way with a drawn sword in his hand,
+and Ba-laam bowed his face to the ground.</p>
+
+<p>Then the an-gel said, Why hast thou struck thine
+ass these three times? Lo, I came out to stop thee,
+and to turn thee from the way of sin. And the ass
+saw me, and turned from the path, and if she had
+not done so I would have slain thee.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Then he said to Ba-laam, Go with the men the
+king has sent, but say on-ly what I shall tell thee.</p>
+
+<p>So Ba-laam went with the men, and when Ba-lak
+heard that he
+was come he
+went out to meet
+him. The next
+day Ba-lak took
+Ba-laam to a
+high place, from
+whence he could
+look down on the
+camp of Is-ra-el,
+and curse them.</p>
+
+<p>But the Lord
+would not let
+him curse them,
+but made him
+speak good
+things of them.
+This was done
+on three high
+mounts, and at
+last the king was
+wroth, and said to Ba-laam, I sent for thee to curse my
+foes, and lo, these three times hast thou blest them.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 387px;">
+<img src="images/i_038.jpg" width="387" height="500" alt="on Mt Nebo" />
+<span class="caption">MO-SES ON MOUNT NE-BO.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And Ba-lak bade him make haste and go back<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span>
+to his own home. And Ba-laam went off as poor as
+he came, for Ba-lak gave him none of his gold.</p>
+
+<p>The Lord brought Mo-ses and his flock to the
+banks of the Jor-dan, which they would have to cross
+to reach the land of Ca-naan. And while they were
+there, Mo-ses went up to the top of Mount Ne-bo to
+talk with God. And God told him how large the
+land was that he would give to the chil-dren of Is-ra-el.
+And he said that Mo-ses should look on it,
+but should not step foot in the land. And Mo-ses
+died on Mount Ne-bo, and though an old man, was
+well and strong till the Lord took him. And no
+one knows in what part of the earth his grave was
+made.</p><hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER VIII.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>HOW JOSHUA AND JEPHTHAH FOUGHT FOR THE LORD.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">When</span> Mo-ses died, Josh-u-a took charge of the
+chil-dren of Is-ra-el, and sought to do God's will, as
+Mo-ses had done. And Josh-u-a sent word through
+the camp that in three days they would cross the
+Jor-dan. And when they set foot in the stream the
+waves stood back as they did in the Red Sea, and
+they went through Jor-dan on dry ground. And as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[113]</a></span>
+they came up out of the stream the waves closed up
+and there was no path-way through them.</p>
+
+<p>The chil-dren of Is-ra-el made their camp at a
+place called Gil-gal;
+and as there was no
+lack of food in this
+good land, the Lord
+ceased to rain down
+man-na for them to
+eat.</p>
+
+<p>The next day
+Josh-u-a left the
+camp and came near
+to the walls of Jer-i-cho.
+There he met
+a man with a drawn
+sword in his hand.
+And Josh-u-a said,
+Art thou for us or
+for our foes?</p>
+
+<p>And the man
+said, As prince of
+the Lord's host am
+I now come. And at these words Josh-u-a fell on
+his face to the earth; for he knew it was the Lord
+that spoke to him.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 296px;">
+<img src="images/i_039.jpg" width="296" height="400" alt="soldiers" />
+<span class="caption">PASS-ING THROUGH THE JOR-DAN.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The Lord told Josh-u-a to have no fear of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[114]</a></span>
+king of Jer-i-cho, for the chil-dren of Is-ra-el should
+take the town. All their men of war were to march
+round the town once each day for six days. Some
+of the priests were to bear the ark, which held the
+things they made use of when they went in to talk
+with God, and some were to blow on rams' horns.</p>
+
+<p>And the next day&mdash;when the six days were at an
+end&mdash;they were to march round the town sev-en
+times, and the priests were to blow their horns. 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 ground, and they could march in and take
+the town.</p>
+
+<p>Josh-u-a bade his men do all the Lord had said;
+and told them to make no noise with their voice as
+they went their rounds till he bade them shout.
+And when the priests blew their horns for the last
+time, Josh-u-a cried, Shout! for the Lord is with us!
+and there was a great shout and the wall fell, and
+they took the town; and the fame of Josh-u-a spread
+through all the lands.</p>
+
+<p>Josh-u-a fought with more than a score of kings
+and won their lands from them; but yet there was
+much land in Ca-naan for which the chil-dren of Is-ra-el
+would have to fight.</p>
+
+<p>But as the years went on, Josh-u-a grew so old
+that he could not lead his men to war as he used to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[115]</a></span>
+do. And he called his flock to him and told them
+how good the Lord had been to them. And he bade
+them love the Lord and serve him, and put from
+them all strange gods. He said, Choose ye this day
+whom ye will serve; but as for me and my house we
+will serve the Lord.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 550px;">
+<img src="images/i_040.jpg" width="550" height="440" alt="Joshua" />
+<span class="caption">JOSH-U-A AND THE STONE OF WIT-NESS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And the men said, The Lord hath done great<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a></span>
+things for us, and him will we serve, for he is
+our God.</p>
+
+<p>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-loh. And this stone, he said, was to be
+a sign of the vow they had made there to serve the
+Lord. And when the talk was at an end, the men
+went to their own homes.</p>
+
+<p>And ere long Josh-u-a died. And they laid him
+in the part of the land that God gave him as his own,
+on the north side of the hill of Ga-ash.</p>
+
+<p>Then the chil-dren of Is-ra-el went to war with
+the tribes that were in the land of Ca-naan, as Josh-u-a
+had told them to do. But they did not drive
+them all out, as they should have done, but made
+friends with those that were left, and were led in-to
+sin, and were made to serve as bond-slaves. And
+when they were sick of their sins, and sought the
+help of the Lord, he sent men to rule them, and to
+lead them out to war and set them free from these
+friends who proved to be the worst kind of foes.</p>
+
+<p>Now there was a man in Is-ra-el whose name was
+Jeph-thah. He was a brave man, and had done
+great deeds, but the chil-dren of Is-ra-el were not
+kind to him, so he fled from their land, and went to
+live in the land of Tob. But when the Jews had
+need of a man to lead them out to war, they thought<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[117]</a></span>
+of Jeph-thah. And they said, Come, and be at the
+head of us when we go out to fight the Am-mon-ites.</p>
+
+<p>And Jeph-thah said, If I go with you, and win
+the fight, will you make
+me judge in Is-ra-el?</p>
+
+<p>And they said they
+would.</p>
+
+<p>Now ere the fight
+took place, Jeph-thah
+made a vow that if the
+Lord would let him
+win he would give to
+God&mdash;that is, would
+slay and burn as if it
+were a lamb&mdash;the first
+who came out of his
+doors to meet him
+when he went back to
+his home.</p>
+
+<p>Jeph-thah should
+not have made this rash
+vow, and need not have
+kept it if he had asked
+God to for-give the sin.</p>
+
+<p>He went out to fight the Am-mon-ites, and by
+the help of the Lord the chil-dren of Is-ra-el were
+set free from them.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 266px;">
+<img src="images/i_041.jpg" width="266" height="400" alt="daughter dancing" />
+<span class="caption">JEPH-THAH AND HIS DAUGH-TER.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[118]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When the fight was at an end Jeph-thah went
+back to his home, and the first to come out to meet
+him was his own child, a fair young maid, whose
+face was bright with joy. She was all the child that
+Jeph-thah had, and when he saw her he rent his
+clothes and told her of the vow he had made.</p>
+
+<p>And she said, My fath-er, if thou hast made a
+vow to the Lord, do with me as thou hast said.
+And he took his child and did to her as he had said
+he would, and all the young girls in Is-ra-el wept
+for her.</p>
+
+<p>Jeph-thah was a judge for six years, and then
+he died.</p><hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER IX.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>SAMSON: THE STRONG MAN.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Jews kept on in their sins, and took no
+pains to please the Lord, and so fell in-to the hands
+of the Phil-is-tines.</p>
+
+<p>And there was at that time a man in Is-ra-el
+whose name was Ma-no-ah. Both he and his wife
+served the Lord; and they had no child. And God
+sent one of his an-gels to the wife of Ma-no-ah to tell<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span>
+her that she should have a son who was to be brought
+up to serve the Lord, and to do his work.</p>
+
+<p>Ere long Ma-no-ah and his wife had a son, to
+whom they gave the name of Sam-son.</p>
+
+<p>And the child grew, and the Lord blest him.
+And when he was grown up he went to Tin-muth,
+where he met a Phil-is-tine wo-man and fell in love
+with her.</p>
+
+<p>Then his pa-rents plead with him to find a wife
+in Is-ra-el, and not to take this one who was no friend
+to his race. But Sam-son would not give her up.</p>
+
+<p>So they went with him to Tin-muth. And on
+the way a li-on ran out and roared at him. And
+Sam-son put his arms round the beast and tore him
+with his hands as if he had been a young kid. But
+he did not tell his fath-er and moth-er what he had
+done.</p>
+
+<p>The time soon came when Sam-son was to set
+the Jews free from the Phil-is-tines. And he went
+down to one of their towns and slew a few of their
+men, and then went back to his own home, while his
+wife stayed in Tin-muth.</p>
+
+<p>When it was time to bring the wheat in from the
+field, Sam-son went down to see his wife, and took
+with him a young kid. But when he came to the
+house her fath-er would not let him go in, and told
+him that she was his wife no more, but had gone to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[120]</a></span>
+live with some one else. Then Sam-son was in a
+great rage, and he went and caught more than ten
+score fox-es, and set bits of wood on fire, and tied
+these fire-brands to their tails, and let them loose in
+the fields and vine-yards of the Phil-is-tines.</p>
+
+<p>And they set fire to the grain, and burnt it all up.</p>
+
+<p>And the grape-vines and fruit trees were burnt,
+and much harm was done.</p>
+
+<p>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 death. And Sam-son
+fought and slew a host of the Phil-is-tines, and then
+went on the top of a high rock called E-tam to stay
+there.</p>
+
+<p>Then a crowd of men went up with a rush to the
+top of the rock, and they said to Sam-son, We have
+come to bind thee, that we may give thee in-to the
+hands of the Phil-is-tines.</p>
+
+<p>Sam-son made them swear that they would not
+put him to death, and they bound him with strong
+cords and brought him down from the rock.</p>
+
+<p>As they drew near the camp of the Phil-is-tines
+a great shout went up from the men there. And
+the Lord gave Sam-son such strength that he broke
+the cords from his arms as if they had been burnt
+threads.</p>
+
+<p>And Sam-son took up the jaw-bone of an ass,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span>
+and with it he fought the Phil-is-tines and slew a host
+of them.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 326px;">
+<img src="images/i_042.jpg" width="326" height="400" alt="Samson" />
+<span class="caption">SAM-SON SLAY-ING THE PHIL-IS-TINES.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then a great thirst came on him, and there was
+no well near from which he could drink. 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 foes.</p>
+
+<p>And the Lord
+made a spring at
+that place and wa-ter
+ran out, and
+when Sam-son had
+drunk, his strength
+came back to him.</p>
+
+<p>Sam-son came
+to the town of Ga-za,
+and went in a
+house there. Now
+the Phil-is-tines
+dwelt in Ga-za,
+and when they heard that Sam-son was there they
+shut the gates of the town, and kept watch near them
+all night. They said when the day dawns we will
+kill him.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[122]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>But in the dead of the night Sam-son rose up
+and came to the gates of the town, and when he found
+them shut he took them up&mdash;posts, bar and all&mdash;and
+bore them a long way off to the top of a hill.</p>
+
+<p>Sam-son's hair had not been cut, and it had grown
+thick and long. And there was a wo-man named
+De-li-lah whom Sam-son used to go and see. 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 off, they would give her
+a large sum of gold.</p>
+
+<p>So when Sam-son came to De-li-lah's house she
+said to him, Tell me, I pray thee what makes thee
+so strong, and with what thou couldst be bound and
+not break loose?</p>
+
+<p>Sam-son said if they bound him with sev-en green
+withes&mdash;that is, cords made out of soft twigs&mdash;he
+would be so weak that he could not break them.</p>
+
+<p>When De-li-lah told this to the Phil-is-tines they
+brought her sev-en green withes, and Sam-son let her
+bind him with them. Now she had men hid in her
+house who were to take Sam-son if he could not
+break the twigs. And when she had bound him
+she cried out, The Phil-is-tines seize thee, Sam-son!
+And as soon as she had said these words he broke
+the green withes as if they were burnt threads.</p>
+
+<p>Then De-li-lah knew that Sam-son made fun of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[123]</a></span>
+her and told her lies, and she said once more, Tell
+me, I pray thee, with what thou canst be bound and
+not break loose.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/i_043.jpg" width="500" height="377" alt="Samson carrying" />
+<span class="caption">SAM-SON CAR-RY-ING THE GATES OF GA-ZA.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Sam-son told her if he were bound with new
+ropes, which had not been used, that his strength
+would leave him, and he would be too weak to break
+them.</p>
+
+<p>So she took new ropes and bound him. But ere
+the men who were hid in the room could spring out<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></span>
+and take him, Sam-son broke the ropes from his
+arms as if they had been threads.</p>
+
+<p>Then De-li-lah told Sam-son that he did but
+mock her and tell her lies, and she begged him to let
+her know how he might be bound.</p>
+
+<p>And he said if she would weave his hair with the
+web in the loom his strength would go from him.
+And she wove his long hair in with the web, and
+made it fast with a large peg that was part of
+the loom.</p>
+
+<p>Then she cried out, and Sam-son rose up and
+went off with the great peg, and the whole of the
+web that was in the loom.</p>
+
+<p>Then she said he did not love her or he would
+not make sport of her in this way. And she teased
+him each day, and gave him no peace, so that at last
+he had to tell her the truth.</p>
+
+<p>He said his hair had not been cut since he was
+born, and if it were shaved off he would lose all his
+strength.</p>
+
+<p>It was wrong for Sam-son to tell her this, for she
+was bad at heart and not a true friend. But he did
+not know then how great was his sin.</p>
+
+<p>De-li-lah knew that this time Sam-son had told
+her the truth; so she sent for the Phil-is-tines to come
+up to her house.</p>
+
+<p>Then while Sam-son slept, she had a man come<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[125]</a></span>
+in and shave all the hair from his head. And when
+this was done she cried out, The Phil-is-tines seize
+thee, Sam-son.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 385px;">
+<img src="images/i_044.jpg" width="385" height="500" alt="" title="Samson&#39;s hair" />
+<span class="caption">SAM-SON AND DE-LI-LAH.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And he
+woke from his
+sleep, and
+knew not his
+strength had
+gone from him.</p>
+
+<p>Then the
+Phil-is-tines
+took him and
+put out his
+eyes, brought
+him down to
+Ga-za, and
+bound him
+with chains of
+brass. And
+they made him
+fast to a mill-stone,
+and he
+had to work
+hard to grind
+their corn.</p>
+
+<p>While he was shut up in jail Sam-son had time
+to think of his sins, and he no doubt cried out to the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[126]</a></span>
+Lord to keep him. For his hair grew out and his
+strength came back. But the Phil-is-tines did not
+know this.</p>
+
+<p>They had made their own god, and its name was
+Da-gon. And they thought that Da-gon gave Sam-son
+in-to their hands, and loud was their praise of
+him. 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 thanks.</p>
+
+<p>The crowd was great, and their hearts were full
+of joy. And they said, Send for Sam-son that he
+may make sport for us. And poor blind Sam-son
+was brought in, and sat down in their midst. And
+those in the house and those on the roof made sport
+of him in all sorts of ways.</p>
+
+<p>And Sam-son put his arms round two of the
+great posts that held up the house. And he bent
+down, and the house fell, and most of the Phil-is-tines
+were killed. Sam-son died with them, and by
+his death slew more of the foes of Is-ra-el than he had
+slain in all his life.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[127]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 483px;">
+<img src="images/i_045.jpg" width="483" height="600" alt="columns falling" />
+<span class="caption">SAM-SON DE-STROYS THE TEM-PLE.</span>
+</div><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER X.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>RUTH.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">While</span> Is-ra-el was ruled by a judge whose name
+has not come down to us, a dearth came on the land
+of Ca-naan. And one of the Jews who dwelt in
+Beth-le-hem, took his wife and his two sons and
+went to stay for a while in the land of Mo-ab. His
+wife's name was Na-o-mi. The man died while
+they were in Mo-ab, and in a few years each of the
+sons took him a wife. And their names were Or-pah
+and Ruth. At the end of ten years the sons died,
+and Na-o-mi and their wives dwelt in the land of
+Mo-ab.</p>
+
+<p>When Na-o-mi heard there was no lack of food
+in Is-ra-el, she made up her mind to go back to
+Beth-le-hem to live.</p>
+
+<p>She told Or-pah and Ruth of her plan, and said
+if they choose to stay in the land of Mo-ab, where they
+were born, they might do so.</p>
+
+<p>And they kissed her and wept and said they
+would go with her. But she bade them stay where
+they were, and at last Or-pah, with tears in her eyes,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[129]</a></span>
+kissed Na-o-mi good-bye and went back to her own
+home. But Ruth would not leave her. She told
+Na-o-mi not to
+urge her to go,
+for nought but
+death should
+part them.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 378px;">
+<img src="images/i_046.jpg" width="378" height="500" alt="two women" />
+<span class="caption">RUTH AND NA-O-MI.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>So they went
+to the town of
+Beth-le-hem
+where Na-o-mi
+used to live.</p>
+
+<p>It was the
+days when the
+grain was ripe
+in the fields, and
+the men had
+gone out to cut
+it down.</p>
+
+<p>And Na-o-mi
+had a kins-man
+in Beth-le-hem,
+whose
+name was Bo-az,
+and he was a rich and great man. And Ruth said
+to Na-o-mi, Let me now go to the fields and glean
+the ears of corn.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[130]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>To glean is to pick up. And poor folks, who
+had no fields of their own, went to pick up that which
+was left on the ground for them.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 280px;">
+<img src="images/i_047.jpg" width="280" height="400" alt="woman" />
+<span class="caption">RUTH.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And Na-o-mi told
+Ruth to go. And
+she went out and came
+to the field that was
+owned by the rich
+man, Bo-az.</p>
+
+<p>When Bo-az saw
+Ruth he asked the
+men who she was, and
+where she came from.
+And one of them said,
+She came with Na-o-mi
+from the land of
+Mo-ab. And she
+said to us, I pray you
+let me glean where
+the field has been
+reaped. And we
+told her she might,
+and she has been
+there for some hours. Then Bo-az went to Ruth.</p>
+
+<p>So she went out each day to his field, and gleaned
+there till the grain was all cut and in the barns.</p>
+
+<p>Na-o-mi said to Ruth, Bo-az will win-now the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[131]</a></span>
+bar-ley to-night. To win-now is to fan, or to drive
+off by means of a wind. The grain was first threshed,
+then thrown
+from the hands
+up in the air.
+The wind
+would blow off
+the chaff and
+the good grain
+would fall to
+the ground.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 384px;">
+<img src="images/i_048.jpg" width="384" height="500" alt="collecting grain" />
+<span class="caption">BO-AZ AND RUTH.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Na-o-mi
+told Ruth to go
+in and speak
+to Bo-az the
+things she told
+her. So Ruth
+did as Na-o-mi
+said, and went
+down to the
+fields where
+Bo-az and his
+men were.</p>
+
+<p>When she
+came back to Na-o-mi she told her all that she had
+said and done.</p>
+
+<p>The next day Bo-az went down to the gate of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[132]</a></span>
+Beth-le-hem, and told all the chief men whom he
+met there that he meant to make Ruth his wife.
+And the men said they would make it known, and
+prayed the Lord would bless Ruth and add to the
+fame and wealth of the rich and great Bo-az.</p>
+
+<p>So Bo-az took Ruth for his wife. And they had
+a son O-bed. And Na-o-mi was its nurse.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XI.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>JOB.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">There</span> was a man in the land of Uz whose name
+was Job. He was a good man and tried to do all
+that was right in the sight of the Lord. And God
+gave him ten chil-dren: sev-en boys and three girls.
+He gave Job great wealth, too, so that there was no
+man in all that part of the world as rich as he was.</p>
+
+<p>When Job's sons were grown up and had homes
+of their own, they used to make feasts in turn, and
+send for their three sis-ters to come and eat and drink
+with them. And Job kept them in mind of all they
+owed to God, and urged them to lead good and true
+lives, and to do no wrong.</p>
+
+<p>When Job had lived at his ease and been a rich
+man for a long term of years, a great change took<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[133]</a></span>
+place. He lost all his wealth, and all his chil-dren;
+for it was God's will to try him and see how he
+would bear these ills.</p>
+
+<p>One day one of his men came to him in great
+haste, and said, While we were in the field with the
+ploughs, a band of thieves came and drove off the ox-en
+and ass-es and slew thy men who were with them,
+and I a-lone am left to tell thee.</p>
+
+<p>While this man spoke, there came up one who
+said, A great fire has come down from the sky and
+burnt up thy sheep, and all those who took care of
+them, and I a-lone am left to tell thee.</p>
+
+<p>While he yet spoke, a third man came and said,
+Thy foes came and took all thy cam-els, and slew
+the men who had charge of them, and I a-lone am
+left to tell thee.</p>
+
+<p>Then a fourth came, and said, Thy chil-dren
+were at a feast in the house of thy first-born son,
+when there came a great wind that broke down the
+house, and it fell on the young men and they are
+all dead, and I a-lone am left to tell thee.</p>
+
+<p>When Job heard these things he tore his clothes,
+and bowed down to the earth, as if at the feet of God.
+And he said, I had nought when I came in-to the
+world, and I shall have nought when I die and go
+out of it. God gave me all that I had, and God
+took it from me. He knows what is best for me,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[134]</a></span>
+and I thank him for all that he has done. So Job
+did not sin, nor speak ill of God, though his grief
+was so great and had come up-on him in such a
+strange, swift way.</p>
+
+<p>To try Job still more, God let him get sick and
+he was in great pain. Boils came on him and from
+head to foot he was a mass of sores.</p>
+
+<p>Then his wife came to Job and said, Dost thou
+still trust God? Do so no more, but curse him,
+though he kill thee for it.</p>
+
+<p>Job said, Thou dost not speak wise words.
+When we have so much good from God, shall we
+not be con-tent to take our share of the ills he may
+send? In all this Job said not a word that was wrong.</p>
+
+<p>Now Job had three friends, who, when they
+heard of his hard lot, came to talk with him and cheer
+him. But when they saw him, the change was so
+great they did not know him.</p>
+
+<p>Then they rent their clothes and wept, and sat
+down on the ground near him, but did not speak for
+some time, for they could see that his grief was great.
+These friends thought that Job must have done some
+great sin, else these ills would not have been sent
+up-on him. When they spoke to him they said, If
+thou hast done wrong, do so no more, and God will
+free thee from thy pains.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 502px;">
+<img src="images/i_049.jpg" width="502" height="600" alt="Job and comforters" />
+<span class="caption">JOB, AND HIS FRIENDS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now Job knew that he had done no wrong,
+and he said to them, You came to soothe me, but
+what you say does not soothe me at all. Did I send
+for you, or ask you to help me? If you were in such
+grief as I am, I might say hard things of you and
+call you bad men. But I would not do so; but
+would speak kind words to you, and try to help you
+bear your ills, and to make your grief less.</p>
+
+<p>Then Job spoke of his own griefs, and said: O,
+that the Lord would put me to death that I might
+suf-fer no more. When I lie down at night I can-not
+sleep, but toss on my bed in pain and wish the
+day would dawn. Or, if I fall a-sleep for a while, I
+have the worst kind of dreams, so that I would be
+glad to die and wake no more in this world. O, that
+I had some one to speak to God for me, for he does
+not hear when I pray. Yet I know that he lives who
+will save my soul, and that he will come on the earth,
+and I shall rise up from my grave and see God
+for my-self.</p>
+
+<p>But when Job found that he could not die, nor
+be made well, but must still bear his pains, he grew
+cross, and was not at all like the Job of old. He
+found fault, and said that his griefs were too great,
+and that God was not kind to put him in such pain.</p>
+
+<p>His three friends did not try to calm him, or to
+cheer him with the hope that his woes would soon
+be at an end, nor did they bid him trust in God and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[136]</a><br /><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</a></span>
+seek help and strength from him. But they told him
+that he must have done some great wrong, else God
+would not have sent all these ills up-on him.</p>
+
+<p>This did not please Job, and he spoke to them in
+great wrath, and they spoke back in the same style.</p>
+
+<p>When they had talked in this way for some time,
+and had each of them said things they ought not to
+have said, they heard a voice speak to them out of a
+whirl-wind that swept by the place. It was the voice
+of God.</p>
+
+<p>And the voice spoke to Job and told him of the
+great works that God had done; that it was he who
+made the earth, the sea, and the sky. He sends the
+rain on the field to make the grass grow and the flow-ers
+to spring up. He sends the cold and the heat,
+the frost and the snow, and the ice that stops the flow
+of the streams. He sends the clouds, and the roar
+and the flash that come from them when the storms
+rage. He made the horse that is so swift and strong,
+and has no fear in time of war, but will rush in-to the
+fight at the sound of the trump.</p>
+
+<p>All this and more the voice spoke from the whirl-wind.
+And when God had told Job of all these
+great works, he asked him if he could do these things,
+or if he thought he was so wise that he could teach
+God what it was best to do.</p>
+
+<p>Then Job saw what a sin it was to find fault with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[138]</a></span>
+God. And he was full of shame, and said: My
+guilt is great; I spoke of that of which I knew naught,
+and I bow down in the dust be-fore thee.</p>
+
+<p>God said to Job's three friends, I am wroth with
+you, for you did not speak in the right way to Job.
+Now, lest I pun-ish you, take sev-en young bulls and
+sev-en rams and burn them on the al-tar, and ask Job
+to pray for you, for him will I hear. So they did as
+the Lord told them, and Job prayed for them, and
+God for-gave them their sins.</p>
+
+<p>In a short time Job was well once more. His
+pains all left him; and then his friends and all his
+folks came to see him and they had a good feast.
+And each man brought him a rich gift, and the Lord
+blest him more than he had done be-fore, and gave
+him twice as much wealth. He had great herds of
+sheep, and cam-els, and ox-en and ass-es, and large
+fields for them to roam in, and a host of men to care
+for them. So that he was a great man once more.</p>
+
+<p>And God gave him ten chil-dren: sev-en boys
+and three girls. And when these girls grew up,
+there were no maids in all the land so fair as they in
+face and form. And Job had great peace of mind,
+and dwelt at his ease for long, long years; and when
+he died he was an old, old man.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[139]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XII.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>SAMUEL, THE CHILD OF GOD.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">There</span> 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 hosts.
+And his wife, whose
+name was Han-nah,
+went with him. The
+man's name was El-ka-nah.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 286px;">
+<img src="images/i_050.jpg" width="286" height="400" alt="boy" />
+<span class="caption">SAM-U-EL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>E-li was the high-priest
+at that time, and
+as he sat in the Lord's
+house he saw Han-nah
+on her knees with her
+eyes full of tears.</p>
+
+<p>And he spoke to her
+in a kind voice, and said:
+May God grant thee
+what thou dost ask of
+him. And Han-nah was glad at the high-priest's
+words, for she had asked God to give her a son.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[140]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And the Lord gave Han-nah a son, and she
+called his name Sam-u-el, which means "Asked of
+the Lord."</p>
+
+<p>Sam-u-el was quite young when Han-nah took
+him up to the house of the Lord at Shi-loh. And
+when they brought the child to E-li, Han-nah said,
+I am the wo-man that stood by thee here and prayed
+to the Lord. For this child did I pray, and the
+Lord heard me and gave me what I asked for. So
+I have brought him to the Lord; so long as he lives
+shall he be the child of God. For this was the vow
+she made if God would give her a son.</p>
+
+<p>And Sam-u-el was left to stay with E-li in the
+Lord's house.</p>
+
+<p>Now E-li had two sons, and they were priests in
+the Lord's house. But they were not fit for the
+place, for they were bad men, and broke God's laws.
+And by their sins they kept men from the house of
+the Lord.</p>
+
+<p>But Sam-u-el, though a young child, did what was
+right and pleased the Lord. And his moth-er made
+him a coat, and brought it to him each year when
+she and her hus-band went up to Shi-loh. And E-li
+spoke kind words to them, and asked the Lord to
+bless them for the sake of the child whom they gave
+to him.</p>
+
+<p>Now E-li was an old man, and when he heard<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[141]</a></span>
+of all the things his sons had done, he did not drive
+them out of the Lord's house as he should have done,
+but let them go on in their sins. He cared more to
+please his sons than he
+did to please the Lord.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 239px;">
+<img src="images/i_051.jpg" width="239" height="400" alt="brought to the temple" />
+<span class="caption">HAN-NAH PRE-SENTS SAM-U-EL TO E-LI.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>One night when E-li
+and Sam-u-el lay down to
+sleep, the child heard a
+voice speak his name.
+And he said, Here am I.
+And he got up and ran
+to E-li, for he thought it
+was his voice, and he said,
+Here am I, for thou did'st
+call me.</p>
+
+<p>E-li said, I did not call
+thee, my son. Go back,
+and lie down. And the
+lad did so.</p>
+
+<p>In a short time he
+heard the same voice say,
+Sam-u-el&mdash;Sam-u-el.</p>
+
+<p>And he rose at once
+and went to E-li, and said
+to him, Here am I, for thou did'st call me. But
+E-li said, I did not call thee, and sent the lad back
+to his bed once more.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[142]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Then Sam-u-el heard the voice a third time, and
+went to E-li and said, Here am I, for thou did'st
+call me.</p>
+
+<p>And E-li knew it was the Lord who spoke to
+Sam-u-el. And he said to the lad, Go, lie down, and
+if he call thee, say, Speak, Lord, for I hear thee.</p>
+
+<p>And Sam-u-el went and lay down. And the
+Lord came for the fourth time, and called, Sam-u-el&mdash;Sam-u-el!</p>
+
+<p>And Sam-u-el said, Speak, Lord, for I hear thee.</p>
+
+<p>And the Lord told Sam-u-el all that he meant to
+do to the house of E-li. He had let his sons go on
+in their sins, and they were to be put to death in a
+way that would make men fear God.</p>
+
+<p>Sam-u-el lay still till day-light. Then he rose,
+but did not dare to tell E-li what God had told him.</p>
+
+<p>But E-li called him and said, What did the Lord
+say to thee? I pray thee hide it not from me.</p>
+
+<p>So Sam-u-el told E-li all that the Lord had said.
+When E-li heard it, he said, It is the Lord, let him
+do what he thinks is best.</p>
+
+<p>And Sam-u-el grew, and the Lord was with him
+and blest him, and it was known to all that he was
+one of God's saints, who could fore-tell things that
+were to take place. Such wise men were some-times
+called seers.</p>
+
+<p>The words which God spoke to Sam-u-el came<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[143]</a></span>
+true; for the chil-dren of Is-ra-el went out to fight
+the Phil-is-tines, and a host of them were slain.</p>
+
+<p>Those who came back said, Let us take the ark
+out with us to save us from our foes.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i_052.jpg" width="600" height="483" alt="stealing the ark" />
+<span class="caption">CAP-TURE OF THE ARK.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now God had not told them to take the ark, and
+it was a sin for them to touch it. They should have
+put their trust in the Lord, and looked to him for help.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[144]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>But they sent to Shi-loh for the ark, and E-li's
+two sons came with it. When it was brought to the
+camp the Jews gave such a shout that the earth shook
+with the noise.</p>
+
+<p>And when the Phil-is-tines heard it, they said,
+What does it mean? And they were told that the ark
+of the Lord had been brought to the camp of Is-ra-el.</p>
+
+<p>And they were in great fear; for they said, God
+is come to the camp! Woe un-to us, for this is the
+first time such a thing has been done!</p>
+
+<p>And they said, Let us be strong and fight like
+men, that we may not be slaves to these Jews!</p>
+
+<p>So they fought once more with the Jews, and
+slew a host of them, and the rest fled to their tents.
+And the ark of the Lord fell in-to the hands of the
+foe, and E-li's two sons were slain.</p>
+
+<p>And the same day a man ran down to Shi-loh,
+with his clothes rent, and bits of earth on his head to
+show his grief.</p>
+
+<p>E-li sat on a seat by the way-side, where he kept
+watch, for he was in great fear lest harm should come
+to the ark of God. And when the man came through
+the crowd and told that the ark was lost, all cried out
+with great fear. And when E-li heard the noise, he
+said, What is it? What do those sounds mean?
+For his eyes were dim with age, and he could not see.</p>
+
+<p>And the man ran up to E-li and said, I am he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[145]</a></span>
+that came out of the fight, and I fled from there
+to-day.</p>
+
+<p>And E-li said, What word hast thou, my son?</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i_053.jpg" width="600" height="475" alt="Ark returns" />
+<span class="caption">THE RE-TURN OF THE ARK.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And he said that Is-ra-el had been put to flight
+with great loss, his two sons were dead, and the ark
+of God in the hands of the Phil-is-tines.</p>
+
+<p>When the man spoke of the ark of God, E-li fell off<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[146]</a></span>
+the seat by the side of the gate, and broke his neck,
+and died there. And he had been a high priest and
+a judge in Is-ra-el for two-score years.</p>
+
+<p>And the ark of God was with the Phil-is-tines
+for more than half the year, and to each place where
+it was sent it brought great grief.</p>
+
+<p>So at last they sent for their wise men, and said
+to them, What shall we do with the ark of the Lord?
+To what place shall we send it?</p>
+
+<p>And the wise men told them to make a new cart,
+and tie two cows to it, but to bring the calves home
+with them. Then they should put the ark on the
+cart, and let the cows draw it where they would.</p>
+
+<p>If the cows should leave their calves and go down
+to the land of Is-ra-el, it would be a sign that the
+Lord was their guide, and that he had sent these ills
+on the Phil-is-tines for their great sins.</p>
+
+<p>But if the cows did not take the ark, it would
+show that the Lord did not want it back, and that
+all these ills they had to bear had come by chance,
+and were not sent from the Lord.</p>
+
+<p>So the Phil-is-tines did as their wise men said.
+They took the two cows and tied them to the cart,
+and shut up their calves at home. And they laid
+the ark on the cart, and let the cows go where they
+chose.</p>
+
+<p>And the cows took the straight road to the land<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[147]</a></span>
+of Is-ra-el till they came to a place called Beth-she-mesh.</p>
+
+<p>The Jews who dwelt there were out in the wheat
+fields. And the cows brought the cart to the fields of
+a man named Josh-u-a, and stood there by a great
+stone.</p>
+
+<p>Then some of the men of Le-vi came and took
+the ark and set it on the stone. And they broke up
+the cart, and burnt the cows as a gift of praise to
+the Lord.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XIII.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>SAMUEL THE MAN OF GOD.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">When</span> E-li died, Sam-u-el was made a judge in
+Is-ra-el. And he went from place to place to teach
+men the law. And as the ark had not been brought
+back to Shi-loh, Sam-u-el built an al-tar in his own
+house and served God there.</p>
+
+<p>The chil-dren of Is-ra-el set up strange gods, and
+the Phil-is-tines went to war with them. And Sam-u-el
+told them to give up their false gods and serve
+the Lord, and he would save them from their foes.
+And they did so. And he said, Come up to Miz-peh,
+and I will pray to the Lord for you.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[148]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And they came to Miz-peh, and gave their hearts
+to the Lord, and were in grief for their sins.</p>
+
+<p>And when the Phil-is-tines heard they were at
+Miz-peh, they went up to fight them. And the
+chil-dren of Is-ra-el were in great fear, and Sam-u-el
+plead for them, and when the fight came on the Lord
+sent a fierce storm that put the Phil-is-tines to flight,
+and they fled from the field with great loss.</p>
+
+<p>And Sam-u-el set up a stone at Miz-peh, and gave
+it the name of Eb-en-e-zer&mdash;"The Stone of Help."</p>
+
+<p>When Sam-u-el was an old man he set his two
+sons to judge Is-ra-el. But his sons were not just
+men, and did not rule as their fath-er had done. If
+a man did wrong, they would say it was right if he
+paid them for it. And the wise men came to Sam-u-el,
+and said to him, As thou art old, and thy sons
+walk not in thy ways, make us a king to judge us.</p>
+
+<p>Sam-u-el felt hurt when they asked him to choose
+a king, and asked the Lord to tell him what to do.</p>
+
+<p>And the Lord told Sam-u-el to choose a king
+for them.</p>
+
+<p>Now there was a man whose name was Kish,
+and he had a son whose name was Saul, a tall young
+man of fine form and good looks.</p>
+
+<p>And the ass-es of Kish were lost. And he said
+to Saul, his son, Take one of the men with you, and
+go find the ass-es.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[149]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And they went a long way and could not find
+them. And Saul said to the man with him, Come,
+let us go back, lest my fath-er think we are lost.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i_054.jpg" width="600" height="491" alt="setting up the stone" />
+<span class="caption">THE STONE OF HELP.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And the man said to Saul, There is a man of
+God here, and what he says is sure to come to pass.
+It may be that he can tell us what we ought to do<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[150]</a></span>
+Saul said, Thy word is good; come, let us go.
+And they went to the town where Sam-u-el, the man
+of God, was. And they met him on their way.</p>
+
+<p>And the Lord made it known to Sam-u-el that
+this was the man he should choose to reign in Is-ra-el.</p>
+
+<p>And Saul drew near to Sam-u-el, and said, Tell
+me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.</p>
+
+<p>And Sam-u-el said, I am the seer; and the ass-es
+that were lost are found. And he took Saul and his
+man to his own house, and made them spend the
+night there.</p>
+
+<p>The next day Sam-u-el took Saul to the roof of
+his house, and had a talk with him.</p>
+
+<p>Then they went out on the street, and as they
+drew near the gate of the town, Sam-u-el said to Saul,
+Bid thy man pass on, but do thou stand still for a
+while, that I may show thee the word of God.</p>
+
+<p>Then Sam-u-el took a horn of oil and poured it
+on Saul's head.</p>
+
+<p>This was done when a man was made a high-priest;
+and the same thing was done when he was
+made a king. And God was pleased with Saul, and
+gave him a new heart; but as yet none but these two
+knew that Saul was to be King of the Jews.</p>
+
+<p>Sam-u-el spoke to the chil-dren of Is-ra-el and
+told them once more all that the Lord had done for
+them, how he had brought them out of the land of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[151]</a></span>
+E-gypt, and set them free from their foes, and yet
+they would not serve the Lord, but cried out for a
+king. So he bade them all go up to Miz-peh that
+the Lord might choose them a king.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 353px;">
+<img src="images/i_055.jpg" width="353" height="400" alt="Hiding" />
+<span class="caption">SAUL IN HIS HID-ING PLACE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And the
+Lord chose
+Saul. But when
+the men went
+to seek for him,
+they could not
+find him. And
+the Lord said,
+He hath hid in
+the midst of the
+stuff. And they
+ran and brought
+him out, and he
+was so tall that
+all the rest had
+to look up to
+him.</p>
+
+<p>And Sam-u-el
+said, This
+is he whom the Lord hath sent to rule thee. There
+is none like him, as thou canst see.</p>
+
+<p>And they all cried out, God save the king!
+Then Sam-u-el told them what they were to do,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[152]</a></span>
+and how the king was to rule, and wrote it down in
+a book.</p>
+
+<p>When Saul had been king for two years, he set
+out with his son, Jon-a-than, to fight the Phil-is-tines.
+And a great host went with them. And the Phil-is-tines
+had more men than they could count. And
+when the Jews saw the strength of their foes, they
+were in great fear, and ran and hid in caves and pits,
+or fled to the high hills where the rocks would screen
+them. So there were but few left to go out with
+Saul, and they shook with dread.</p>
+
+<p>And Saul came to Gil-gal, where he was to meet
+Sam-u-el, but he was not there. Sam-u-el had told
+him to wait for him, and he would tell him what he
+was to do.</p>
+
+<p>But at the end of a week Saul had the flesh
+brought to him and laid on the stone, and he set fire
+to it, that the flame might rise to God and bring
+peace to the land. And as soon as Saul had done
+this thing, Sam-u-el came. And Saul went out to
+meet him, that he might bless him.</p>
+
+<p>And Sam-u-el said, What hast thou done?</p>
+
+<p>And Saul told of the strait he was in, and that
+the Phil-is-tines were near in great force, 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 hour.</p>
+
+<p>Sam-u-el told him that he had done wrong.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[153]</a></span>
+When the Lord told him to wait, he should wait.
+And now his reign would be a short one, and God
+would choose a new king to take his place.</p>
+
+<p>In those days men fought with bows and ar-rows.
+And while the Jews were held as slaves by the
+Phil-is-tines they would not let them have swords or
+spears, lest they should rise up and kill them.</p>
+
+<p>And they sent all the smiths out of the land, lest
+they should make these things for the chil-dren of
+Is-ra-el.</p>
+
+<p>So when they went out to fight none of them had
+a sword or a spear but Saul and his son.</p>
+
+<p>In those days men wore coats of mail, and bore
+a shield with them so as to ward off the darts. These
+shields were made of a thick piece of wood, on which
+the skin of an ox was stretched when dried.</p>
+
+<p>Jon-a-than, Saul's son, wore a coat of mail, and
+had a man to bear his spear and his shield when he
+did not care to use them. And he said to his man,
+Come, let us go to the camp of the Phil-is-tines. For
+it may be that the Lord will help us.</p>
+
+<p>And the man said he would go.</p>
+
+<p>Jon-a-than said this should be their sign: They
+would go where the foe could see them, and if they
+said, Wait there till I come to you, they would know
+the Lord did not mean to help them. But if the
+Phil-is-tines said, Come up to us and we will show<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[154]</a></span>
+you some-thing, they would go up, for the Lord
+would be with them.</p>
+
+<p>So Jon-a-than and his man stood out where the
+foe could see them. And the Phil-is-tines made
+sport of them, and cried out, Come up to us, and we
+will shew you some-thing.</p>
+
+<p>And the two went up the rocks on their hands
+and feet, and fought with the Phil-is-tines, and slew
+a score of them. And the Lord shook the earth, so
+that the Phil-is-tines were in great fear.</p>
+
+<p>Now Saul and the men who were with him did
+not know what his son had done. But his watch-man,
+who was on the look-out, saw that there was a
+fight in the camp of the Phil-is-tines, and told Saul
+of it.</p>
+
+<p>And Saul and his men went to join in the fight.
+And all those who had hid in caves and holes, or up
+on the mount, when they heard that the Phil-is-tines
+had fled, went with Saul, and Is-ra-el won the day.</p>
+
+<p>But Saul did not de-sire to please the Lord in all
+things. For when the Lord sent him out to fight
+King A-gag, he told Saul to wipe him and all he had
+from the face of the earth. But Saul kept back some
+of the spoils, the best of the sheep and lambs, and
+did not put the king to death as he should have done.</p>
+
+<p>And the Lord told Sam-u-el that Saul was not
+a good king, and his reign should be short.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[155]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And it made Sam-u-el sad to hear this, and he
+prayed to God all night. Then he had a talk with
+Saul, who did not
+look at his sins in
+the right light. And
+Sam-u-el told him
+that his reign as
+king would soon be
+at an end.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 341px;">
+<img src="images/i_056.jpg" width="341" height="500" alt="Annointed" />
+<span class="caption">DA-VID A-NOINT-ED BY SAM-U-EL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>God told Sam-u-el
+not to mourn
+for Saul, but to go
+down to Beth-le-hem,
+to the house
+of a man named
+Jes-se, one of whose
+sons was to be made
+king. And the Lord
+said he was not to
+look for one with a
+fine face or form. For
+the Lord sees not as
+man sees, and he
+looks on the heart.</p>
+
+<p>So he went down to Beth-le-hem, and did as the
+Lord told him. And Jes-se had his sev-en sons
+pass one by one be-fore Sam-u-el. And Sam-u-el<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[156]</a></span>
+thought that the first-born must be the one whom
+God chose to be king. But the Lord told him he
+was not the one. And they all went by, and not
+one of them was the one on whom God had set his
+seal.</p>
+
+<p>And Sam-u-el said to Jes-se, Are these all thy
+sons?</p>
+
+<p>And Jes-se said, No there is yet one left; but he
+is quite a lad, and is now in the field where he cares
+for the sheep.</p>
+
+<p>And Sam-u-el told Jes-se to send for him at
+once. And Jes-se sent for him, and he was
+brought in, and his cheeks were red, and his eyes
+bright. And the Lord said to Sam-u-el, Rise&mdash;for
+this is he.</p>
+
+<p>And Sam-u-el rose, and took the horn of oil and
+poured it on the young man's head. So the Lord
+chose Da-vid to be king when Saul should be put
+out of the way.</p>
+
+<p>And Da-vid felt a great change in his heart, for
+the Lord was there to make him strong and wise,
+and fit for the high place he was to fill.</p>
+
+<p>But there was no peace in Saul's heart, and his
+mind was ill at ease.</p>
+
+<p>And his men said it might soothe him to have
+some one play on the harp. For sweet sounds will
+some-times calm the mind.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[157]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>So Saul said, Find a man who can play well on
+the harp, and bring him to me.</p>
+
+<p>And one of them said that he knew such a man.
+He was the son of Jes-se, who dwelt at Beth-le-hem,
+and his name was Da-vid.</p>
+
+<p>And Saul sent men to Jes-se and told him to
+send Da-vid, his son, who kept the sheep.</p>
+
+<p>And Da-vid came to Saul, and stayed with him
+to wait on him. And when Saul was sad and ill at
+ease, Da-vid would take his harp and play for him,
+and he would soon be well.</p><hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XIV.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>DAVID AND SAUL.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">While</span> Saul was yet king, the Phil-is-tines came
+forth once more to fight the chil-dren of Is-ra-el.
+And Saul and his men went out to meet them.
+There were two high hills on each side of a deep
+vale, and from these two hills the foe-men fought.</p>
+
+<p>The Phil-is-tines had on their side a man who
+was more than ten feet high. He wore a coat of
+mail, and was bound with brass from head to foot, so
+that no sword or spear could wound him.</p>
+
+<p>And he cried out to Saul's men, Choose a man<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[158]</a></span>
+from your midst and let him come down to me. If
+he can fight with me and kill me, then we will be
+your slaves. But if I kill him then you must serve
+us. I dare you to send a man to fight with me.</p>
+
+<p>When Saul and his men heard these words they
+were in great fear, for there was no one in their ranks
+who would dare fight with such a gi-ant.</p>
+
+<p>And each morn and eve, for more than a month,
+this great man, whose name was Go-li-ath, drew near
+Saul and his troops and dared them to send a man
+out to fight him.</p>
+
+<p>Now when the war broke out three of Jes-se's
+sons went with Saul, but Da-vid went back to Beth-le-hem
+to feed sheep.</p>
+
+<p>And Jes-se said to Da-vid, Take this parched
+corn and these ten loaves of bread, and run down to
+camp and bring me back word how thy broth-ers
+are.</p>
+
+<p>And Da-vid rose up the next morn, and found
+some one to take care of his sheep, and went as his
+fath-er told him.</p>
+
+<p>And he came to the camp just as the men were
+on their way to the fight, and the air was filled with
+their shouts.</p>
+
+<p>And he left the goods he had brought in the care
+of a man, and ran in the midst of the troops, and
+spoke to his three broth-ers.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[159]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And while he stood there, Go-li-ath came out
+from the ranks of the Phil-is-tines, and dared some
+one to fight with him.</p>
+
+<p>And Da-vid heard his words. And the men of
+Is-ra-el fled from
+his face. And Da-vid
+heard them
+speak of what would
+be done to the man
+who should kill
+him; for the king
+would give him
+great wealth, and
+set him in a high
+place.</p>
+
+<p>And Da-vid
+spoke to the men
+near him, and made
+use of strong words.</p>
+
+<p>And his broth-ers
+told him to go
+home and take care of his sheep, for it was just a
+trick of his to come up to camp that he might see
+the fight.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 326px;">
+<img src="images/i_057.jpg" width="326" height="350" alt="David meets Saul" />
+<span class="caption">DA-VID BE-FORE SAUL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Da-vid said, I have done no wrong! and the men
+to whom he spoke went and told Saul what he had
+said. And Saul sent for him, but did not know<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[160]</a></span>
+that he was the same one who used to play on the
+harp for him.</p>
+
+<p>And Da-vid told Saul he would go out and fight
+the great man from Gath. And Saul said, Thou
+art but a youth, and he has been a man of war all
+his days.</p>
+
+<p>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 flock. And, said he, this
+man is no more than a wild beast, and the Lord will
+save me from him as he did from the paw of the li-on
+and the bear.</p>
+
+<p>And Saul said, Go, and the Lord go with thee.
+And Saul put on him a coat of mail, and clothed
+him in brass from head to foot, and hung a sword at
+his side. But Da-vid took them all off, and said, I
+have not tried them, and can-not use them.</p>
+
+<p>And he took his staff in his hand, and chose five
+smooth stones from the brook and put them in a bag
+that he wore. And his sling was in his hand when
+he drew near to Go-li-ath.</p>
+
+<p>Go-li-ath came near to Da-vid, and when he saw
+what a youth he was, he drew up his head with
+great scorn.</p>
+
+<p>Da-vid ran to meet him, and put his hand in his
+bag and drew forth a stone, and slung it, 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 earth.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 428px;">
+<img src="images/i_058.jpg" width="428" height="600" alt="holding head" />
+<span class="caption">DA-VID WITH GO-LI-ATH&#39;S HEAD.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then Da-vid ran and stood on Go-li-ath, and
+drew his sword from its sheath, and slew him and
+cut off his head.</p>
+
+<p>And when the Phil-is-tines saw that the man
+in whom they had put their trust was dead they fled.</p>
+
+<p>And Da-vid came back from the fight with the
+head of Go-li-ath in his hand, and was brought to
+Saul.</p>
+
+<p>And Saul would not let Da-vid go back to his own
+home, but made him stay with him. And Jon-a-than
+fell in love with him, and to show his love, took
+off all the rich clothes he had on and put them on
+Da-vid, and gave him his sword, his bow, and his
+belt. And Da-vid did as Saul told him, and all who
+saw him were pleased with him, and Saul put him
+at the head of his men of war.</p>
+
+<p>But when King Saul and his men went through
+the towns on their way back from the fight, the folks
+came out and sang and danced to praise them for
+what they had done.</p>
+
+<p>But they said more in praise of Da-vid than of
+Saul, and when Saul heard it he was wroth, and from
+that day ceased to be Da-vid's friend.</p>
+
+<p>The next day Da-vid stood near Saul with his
+harp in his hand to play him some sweet tunes.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[162]</a><br /><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[163]</a></span>
+And Saul held a spear in his hand, and he cast it
+at Da-vid so that it would go through him and pin
+him to the wall.
+But Da-vid saw it
+and took a step one
+side, and it did him
+no harm.</p>
+
+<p>Twice was this
+done, and when
+Saul found that he
+could not hurt Da-vid,
+he was in great
+fear of him, for he
+knew the Lord was
+with him. So he
+drove Da-vid from
+his house, and sent
+men to lay in wait
+to kill him.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 335px;">
+<img src="images/i_059.jpg" width="335" height="500" alt="friends" />
+<span class="caption">JON-A-THAN AND DA-VID.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>But Da-vid fled
+from them and ran
+to the place where
+Jon-a-than was,
+and said to him,
+What have I done that the king seeks my life?</p>
+
+<p>Now Jon-a-than did not know that the king meant
+to kill Da-vid, so he said to him, Thou shalt not die.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[164]</a></span>
+My fath-er would have told me if he meant to kill
+thee. But Da-vid said it was true.</p>
+
+<p>The next day was to be a feast day, and the
+king would look for Dav-id to come and eat with
+him. But Da-vid was in such fear of Saul that he
+did not care to go, and begged Jon-a-than to let him
+hide him-self for three days. If the king asks where
+I am, said Da-vid, tell him that thou did'st give me
+leave to go home.</p>
+
+<p>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 there. And Jon-a-than said he would shoot
+three ar-rows as if he took aim at a mark. And he
+would send a lad out to pick them up. And if he
+said to the lad, Go, find them, they are on this
+side of thee, then Da-vid might know that all was at
+peace and the king would do him no harm. But if
+he should cry out that the darts were be-yond the lad,
+then Da-vid would know that he must flee, for the
+king meant to do him harm.</p>
+
+<p>So Da-vid hid him-self in the field; and when
+the feast day came Saul sat down to eat with his back
+to the wall. And he saw that Da-vid was not in his
+place, but said not a word. The next day when he
+found Da-vid was not in his place, Saul said to his
+son, Why comes not Da-vid to eat these two days?</p>
+
+<p>Jon-a-than said that Da-vid <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'plead'">pled</ins> so hard for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[165]</a></span>
+leave to go home to his own folks, that he had told
+him to go, and that was why he was not at the feast.</p>
+
+<p>Then Saul was
+in a great rage,
+and said to his
+son, As long as
+Da-vid lives thou
+canst not be a
+king. Send for
+him, and bring
+him here that he
+may be put to
+death.</p>
+
+<p>And Jon-a-than
+said, Why
+should he be
+slain? What hath
+he done?</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 356px;">
+<img src="images/i_060.jpg" width="356" height="500" alt="shooting the arrow" />
+<span class="caption">JON-A-THAN SHOOT-ING THE AR-ROWS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Saul threw
+his spear at Jon-a-than.
+And the
+young man knew
+by this that the
+king meant to kill
+Da-vid. So the next morn the king's son went out
+to the field, and took a lad with him. And he said,
+Run now, and pick up the ar-rows that I shoot.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[166]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And as he ran, Jon-a-than sent a dart o'er his
+head; and when the lad came to the place where it
+fell, the king's son cried out, It is be-yond thee.
+Make haste, and stay not.</p>
+
+<p>Da-vid heard these words and knew that he must
+flee, for if Saul caught him he would kill him.</p>
+
+<p>The lad brought the darts to Jon-a-than, and did
+not know why the king's son had shot them and called
+out to him as he did. And Jon-a-than gave him his
+bow and ar-rows, and sent him back to town with
+them.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as the lad was gone, Da-vid came out
+from the place where he was hid, and fell on his face
+to the ground, and bowed three times. Then he
+rose and threw his arms round Jon-a-than's neck,
+and the two friends wept as if their hearts would break.</p>
+
+<p>Then Da-vid fled from Saul, and hid in the woods
+and caves.</p>
+
+<p>Saul went out with a large force of men to seek
+Da-vid on the rocks where the wild goats fed.
+And Saul came to a cave, and went in to lie down
+and rest.</p>
+
+<p>Da-vid and his men were in the cave, but Saul
+could not see them. And the men wished to kill
+Saul; but Da-vid would not let them. While he
+was there Da-vid stole up to Saul and cut off a piece
+of his robe. And Saul did not know it.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[167]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 497px;">
+<img src="images/i_061.jpg" width="497" height="600" alt="a meeting" />
+<span class="caption">DA-VID AND SAUL.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[168]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When Saul went out of the cave, Da-vid went
+out af-ter him and cried out, My lord and my king!</p>
+
+<p>And when Saul looked back, Da-vid bowed down
+to him with his face to the earth. And he told Saul
+to pay no heed to those who said he meant to harm
+the king. For if he had sought to kill Saul he might
+have done so that day while he was in the cave.
+And Da-vid showed Saul the piece of his robe he
+had cut off.</p>
+
+<p>And some bade me kill thee, said Da-vid, but I
+would not, for thou art my lord and my king. Then
+Da-vid held up the piece of cloth he had cut from
+Saul's robe, and said, Since I was so near thee as
+to cut this off and did not kill thee, thou may'st know
+that I have no wish to harm thee. Yet thou dost
+hunt for me to kill me. Let the Lord judge 'twixt
+thee and me, and save me from thy hand, and save
+thee as he will, for I will not harm thee.</p>
+
+<p>When Saul heard Da-vid speak thus, all hate
+went out of his heart, and he wept as he said, Thou
+hast done good to me for the wrongs I did thee, and
+may the Lord bless thee for it. Now I know that
+thou wilt some day be the king of Is-ra-el.</p>
+
+<p>And Saul went home, and Da-vid and his men
+went back to the cave.</p>
+
+<p>But Da-vid knew that he could not trust Saul, so
+he fled to the land of the Phil-is-tines, and he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[169]</a></span>
+and his men dwelt there in the town of Gath for
+the space of a year and four months.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 330px;">
+<img src="images/i_062.jpg" width="330" height="500" alt="taking the sword" />
+<span class="caption">DA-VID TAKES GO-LI-ATH&#39;S SWORD.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>While he was
+there, the Phil-is-tines
+went out to fight with
+Saul once more, and
+when he saw what a
+host of them there
+was, his heart shook
+with fear. He asked
+the Lord what he
+should do, but the
+Lord did not come
+to him in dreams, or
+speak one word to him.</p>
+
+<p>Sam-u-el was
+dead, and the Lord
+had said it was a sin
+to go to a witch, or a
+seer, to find out the
+things that would
+take place, and Saul
+had sent all these
+folks out of the land.</p>
+
+<p>But now he was in such a strait that he felt he
+must have help of some sort. And one of his men
+told him there was at En-dor a witch who could work<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[170]</a></span>
+strange charms, and fore-tell what was to take place.
+So the king drest him-self so that he would not be
+known, and went at night with two of his men to see
+the witch of En-dor. And he said to her, Bring me
+up him whom I shall name to thee.</p>
+
+<p>And the witch said to him, Dost thou not know
+that Saul has sent all those that work charms out of
+the land? And why dost thou set a snare for my
+life, so that I will be put to death?</p>
+
+<p>And Saul said, As the Lord lives there shall no
+harm come to thee for this thing.</p>
+
+<p>Then the witch said, Whom shall I bring up to
+thee? And he said, Bring me Sam-u-el.</p>
+
+<p>So the witch made strange signs and spoke strange
+words, and swept her wand round and round. And
+when she saw the form of Sam-u-el rise up, she cried
+with a loud voice, Why did'st thou not tell me the
+truth? for thou art Saul!</p>
+
+<p>And the king said, Have no fear. What did'st
+thou see?</p>
+
+<p>And the witch said, I saw an old man with a
+cloak round him.</p>
+
+<p>And Saul knew it was Sam-u-el, and bowed his
+face to the ground. And Sam-u-el said, Why hast
+thou brought me up? And Saul told him that he
+was in a great strait, that God had left him, and did
+not come to him in dreams or by the hand of wise<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[171]</a></span>
+men, and he thought that Sam-u-el might tell him
+what to do.</p>
+
+<p>Sam-u-el said, Why then dost thou ask of me if
+the Lord hath left thee? He hath done to thee just
+as he said he would. Thy reign is at an end, and
+Da-vid shall rule in thy stead. And he told Saul
+that the next day he and his sons would be dead,
+and Is-ra-el in the hands of the foes.</p>
+
+<p>When Saul heard these words he fell down in a
+swoon, for he had had no food for a day and a night.</p>
+
+<p>And the witch brought bread and bade him eat,
+that he might have strength to go on his way. And
+Saul and his men ate of the food, and went their way
+that night.</p>
+
+<p>Now the lords of the Phil-is-tines brought all
+their troops to a place called A-phek. And the king
+of Gath went there, and took Da-vid and his men
+with him. 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 Saul.</p>
+
+<p>So Da-vid and his men had to leave the camp,
+and the Phil-is-tines went out to fight, and the men
+of Is-ra-el fled from them with great loss. The king's
+three sons were slain, and an ar-row struck Saul and
+gave him a bad wound.</p>
+
+<p>And Saul said to the man who bore his shield,
+Draw thy sword and put me to death. But the man<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[172]</a></span>
+did not dare to kill his king. So Saul took his own
+sword and fell on it, and thus died by his own hand.
+And when the man saw that Saul was dead, he fell
+on his sword and died with him.</p>
+
+<p>And when it was known that Saul and his sons
+were dead, the Jews fled from that part of the land,
+and the Phil-is-tines went to live there.</p>
+
+<p>In the course of a few years Da-vid was made
+king of Is-ra-el, and then went to live at Je-ru-sa-lem.
+He went to war, and took spoils of rich kings, and
+the Lord was with him, for he sought to do that
+which was right and just.</p>
+
+<p>Da-vid had two sons: Sol-o-mon and Ab-sa-lom.</p>
+
+<p>And in all the land there was no man with such
+a fine face and form as Ab-sa-lom, and he won much
+praise for his good looks. And he had a thick
+growth of long hair. But Ab-sa-lom had a bad
+heart, and his sins made Da-vid weep. But he did
+not scold Ab-sa-lom as he should have done, for the
+king was fond of his son, and so Ab-sa-lom went on
+from bad to worse.</p>
+
+<p>He told what he would do when he was king,
+and made friends with those who thought it a fine
+thing to be on good terms with the king's son.</p>
+
+<p>When he was two-score years of age, Ab-sa-lom
+said to the king, Let me, I pray thee, go up to Heb-ron
+to pay my vows.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[173]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And Da-vid told him to go. But it was not to
+serve the Lord that Ab-sa-lom went, but to have
+him-self made king
+in-stead of Da-vid.
+And he took ten score
+men with him, who
+did not know why or
+where they went, and
+sent spies all through
+the land to speak in
+his praise and urge
+that he be made king.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 324px;">
+<img src="images/i_063.jpg" width="324" height="500" alt="David forgives" />
+<span class="caption">DA-VID FOR-GIV-ING AB-SA-LOM.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And when Da-vid
+heard of it he said to
+his men, Rise, let us
+flee from this place,
+lest Ab-sa-lom come
+and put us to death.</p>
+
+<p>And they all fled
+from Je-ru-sa-lem, and
+went to hide in some
+lone place. 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 king. A-hith-o-phel, who
+had once been a friend of Da-vid, and had now gone<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[174]</a></span>
+with the king's son, had said that he would go out
+with a large force and come up with Da-vid when he
+was weak and faint, so that he would be in a great
+fright. Those who were with Dav-id would flee,
+and he would soon put the king to death. Then, of
+course, Ab-sa-lom would be king.</p>
+
+<p>But Ab-sa-lom would not do this till he had heard
+what Hu-sha-i said. Now Hu-sha-i was a true friend
+of Da-vid, and he told Ab-sa-lom to take more men
+than A-hith-o-phel had said, for he thought that
+would give Da-vid a chance to get out of the way.
+And Hu-sha-i sent two young men to tell Da-vid not
+to stop on the plains that night, but to cross the Jor-dan,
+lest he and all who were with him should be
+put to death.</p>
+
+<p>But a boy saw the two sons of the high-priest who
+were on their way to Da-vid, and went and told Ab-sa-lom.
+And the priest's sons ran to a house near
+by, and hid in the well. And the wo-man who kept
+the house spread corn on top so that no one could
+see that a well was there.</p>
+
+<p>And when Ab-sa-lom's men came in and asked
+the wo-man where the priest's sons were, she said
+they had gone on past the brook Ked-ron. And
+when the two could not be found the men went back.</p>
+
+<p>Then the priest's sons came up out of the well,
+and made haste to give to Da-vid the word that Hu-sha-i<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[175]</a></span>
+had sent. And at dawn Da-vid and all his
+men crossed Jor-dan.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as Ab-sa-lom had all the men he thought
+he would need, he set out to fight with Da-vid. And
+Da-vid drew up his men in line, and put Jo-ab at
+their head. And the king
+said, I will go out with
+you. But the men said
+he should not; so Da-vid
+staid by the gate and saw
+them go out to the fight,
+and bade them be kind to
+Ab-sa-lom for his sake.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 254px;">
+<img src="images/i_064.jpg" width="254" height="350" alt="Absalom caught" />
+<span class="caption">THE DEATH OF AB-SA-LOM.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The fight took place in
+a wood. Ab-sa-lom rode
+on a mule, and as the mule
+passed 'neath a great oak,
+Ab-sa-lom's head caught
+in a branch, and he hung
+in mid air, while the mule
+went off down the road.</p>
+
+<p>And a man saw it and told Jo-ab. And Jo-ab
+said, Why did'st thou not kill him? And the man
+said he would not kill the king's son, for he had heard
+Da-vid ask them to be kind to him.</p>
+
+<p>But Jo-ab said, I can-not waste time with thee.
+And he took three darts in his hand and thrust them<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[176]</a></span>
+through Ab-sa-lom, so that he died. And he was
+thrown in-to a pit that was in the wood, and a great
+heap of stones was piled on him. And all the men
+who had been with
+him went back to
+their tents.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 307px;">
+<img src="images/i_065.jpg" width="307" height="400" alt="David grieves" />
+<span class="caption">DA-VID HEAR-ING OF AB-SA-LOM&#39;S DEATH.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Da-vid sat in
+the gate, and when
+men came back
+with news of the
+fight, he would ask
+of each one, Is
+Ab-sa-lom safe?
+And at last one of
+them said, May all
+the king's foes be
+as this young man
+is. Then Da-vid
+knew that Ab-sa-lom
+was dead, and
+he went to his own
+room and wept.</p>
+
+<p>And he cried
+out with a loud
+voice, O, my son, Ab-sa-lom; my son, my son Ab-sa-lom!
+I would that God had let me die in thy
+stead, O, Ab-sa-lom, my son, my son!</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[177]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Da-vid was king for two-score years, and was an
+old man when he died and had hosts of friends.
+And when he felt that his death was near, he bade
+his men take Sol-o-mon to a place called Gi-hon, and
+pour oil on his head. Then they were to blow the
+horn and cry out. God save King So-lo-mon.</p>
+
+<p>And this was done; and when Da-vid died, Sol-o-mon
+sat on his throne and ruled Is-ra-el.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XV.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>SOLOMON, THE WISE MAN.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Sol-o-mon</span> gave his heart to God when he was
+young, and tried to lead a good life, and to do no
+wrong. And God spoke to him in a dream one
+night and said, Ask what I shall give thee.</p>
+
+<p>And So-lo-mon said, Grant me, I pray thee a
+wise mind that I may know right from wrong, and
+judge well those who look up to me as their king.</p>
+
+<p>This speech pleased the Lord, and he said, Since
+thou didst not ask me for great wealth, or for long
+life, or that thy foes might be put to death, I will
+make thee wise, and will give thee both great wealth
+and a long life if thou wilt serve me and keep my
+laws.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[178]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>There came two wo-men to the king. And one
+of them said, My lord, I and this <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'wo-men'">wo-man</ins> live in one
+house, and we each of us had a son. And this wo-man's
+child died
+in the night, and
+while I slept she
+came and took
+my child from
+me, and laid her
+own child by my
+side. And when
+I woke, and went
+to feed my child,
+it was dead. And
+I knew it was not
+my son.</p>
+
+<p>It is your
+son.</p>
+
+<p>It is not; the
+child that lives
+is mine.</p>
+
+<p>The dead
+child is yours.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 360px;">
+<img src="images/i_066.jpg" width="360" height="450" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">THE JUDG-MENT OF SOL-O-MON.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>In this way
+they spoke, and the king heard them, and said, Bring
+me a sword!</p>
+
+<p>And a sword was brought to him.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[179]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And the king said, Cut the live child in two,
+and give half to one and half to the oth-er.</p>
+
+<p>When the real moth-er of the child heard these
+words she cried
+out, O my lord,
+give her the
+child, but do not
+kill it.</p>
+
+<p>But the oth-er
+said, Cut it in
+half, and let it
+not be hers or
+mine.</p>
+
+<p>Then the
+king told his
+men to give the
+child to the one
+who tried to
+save its life, for
+he knew that
+she was the
+moth-er. And
+it was to find
+this out that he
+sent the men for the sword, and not to take the
+child's life.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 317px;">
+<img src="images/i_66a.jpg" width="317" height="400" alt="shipyard" />
+<span class="caption">SHIPS OF SOL-O-MON.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>When Sol-o-mon had been king for four years,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[180]</a></span>
+he laid out the plan that Da-vid had made for the
+house of the Lord.</p>
+
+<p>He had a talk with Hi-ram the king of Tyre, and
+told him that it was time to build the house. And
+the King of Tyre was glad, and did all he could to
+aid him. He sent So-lo-mon great trees from the
+woods, and sent him men to help in the work; men
+who had skill with the ax, and with fine tools of all
+sorts.</p>
+
+<p>The house was built of stone, and each stone was
+hewn from the rock, cut so as to fit in the wall ere
+it was brought to the place where it was to stand, so
+that no ax nor tools should be used in the house when
+it was put up.</p>
+
+<p>The walls of the rooms were in-laid with gold,
+and gems, and the floor of the place where the ark
+was kept was of pure gold, and in front of the shrine
+were loops and chains of fine gold.</p>
+
+<p>The doors of the house were made of the wood
+of the fir tree, and they were carved with great skill,
+and touched up with gold.</p>
+
+<p>It took Sol-o-mon sev-en years to build the house
+of the Lord; and when it was done he made a feast,
+and the priests brought the ark of the Lord from
+Mount Zi-on where Da-vid kept it.</p>
+
+<p>And all the tribes of Is-ra-el came to Je-ru-sa-lem,
+that they might be there when the ark was brought.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[181]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And when the ark was put in its place, and the
+priests came out, there was such a cloud in the house
+that all stood still. For the Lord was in the cloud.</p>
+
+<p>Then Sol-o-mon
+stood up, and
+with raised hands
+asked him to come
+down and dwell in
+the house, and to
+dwell in men's
+hearts, that they
+might walk in the
+right way, and love
+God all their days.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 316px;">
+<img src="images/i_067.jpg" width="316" height="450" alt="queen" />
+<span class="caption">QUEEN OF SHE-BA.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now the fame
+of Sol-o-mon came
+to the ears of a rich
+queen, who dwelt
+at She-ba, and she
+thought she would
+like to see if this
+man was as wise
+and rich as he was
+said to be. She
+had a long way to come, and a great train came with
+her, and these brought loads of rich spice, and
+gold and sil-ver and gems of worth. And the queen<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[182]</a></span>
+had a talk with Sol-o-mon and he told her all she
+ought to know.</p>
+
+<p>And she said to the king, What I had heard of
+thee in my own lands I did not think could be true.
+So I came to see for my-self, and I find the half
+was not told to me. So she gave rich gifts to Sol-o-mon,
+and he gave rich gifts to her, and the queen
+went back to her own land.</p>
+
+<p>Now it was thought no sin in those days for a
+man to have more than one wife. And some of Sol-o-mon's
+wives had been brought up to serve false
+gods. And it was a sin for the king to wed with
+such. And as he grew old these wives made him
+serve their Gods, and turn from the true God whom
+he had been taught to love and fear.</p>
+
+<p>And this did not please to Lord, and he said
+that Sol-o-mon's son should not be king when Sol-o-mon
+died. For Da-vid's sake he would let him be
+a prince of two tribes all the days of his life. But
+ten tribes he would take from him.</p>
+
+<p>And foes rose up to plague Sol-o-mon, and for
+his sins he had to give up the peace and rest that
+had long been his. When he had been king for two-score
+years Sol-o-mon died, and his fame has come
+down to this day, for no man has been born in-to the
+world so wise and great as King Sol-o-mon.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[183]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XVI.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>ELIJAH.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">A-hab</span> was the last of the six kings who ruled the
+ten tribes. And he made them serve Ba-al, and
+built a house for this false god.</p>
+
+<p>These acts did not please God, so he sent E-li-jah,
+a seer, to tell A-hab that for years and years
+there should be no rain in the land. And he told
+E-li-jah to hide near a brook from which he should
+drink, and the birds of the air would bring him
+food to eat.</p>
+
+<p>E-li-jah did as the Lord told him, and he drank
+from the brook, and the birds brought him his food
+from day to day. But as there was no rain, the
+brook dried up, and there was lack of food in the land.</p>
+
+<p>So the Lord told E-li-jah to go to the town of Za-re-phath,
+where a wo-man dwelt who would give him
+food.</p>
+
+<p>And when E-li-jah came to the gate of the town,
+a poor wo-man drew near him to pick up some sticks.
+And he said to her, Bring me a drink, I pray thee.</p>
+
+<p>And as she went, he said, Bring me, I pray thee,
+a bit of bread in thine hand.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[184]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 415px;">
+<img src="images/i_068.jpg" width="415" height="600" alt="Elijah and ravens" />
+<span class="caption">E-LI-JAH FED BY RA-VENS.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[185]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And she said, As the Lord lives, I have no bread
+in the house, and but a hand-ful of meal, and a few
+drops of oil. And I came out to pick up a few sticks
+that I might light the fire, and bake a small loaf for
+me and my son, that we
+may eat it and die.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 278px;">
+<img src="images/i_069.jpg" width="278" height="400" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">E-LI-JAH AND THE WID-OW&#39;s CHILD.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>E-li-jah said, Fear
+not; go and do as thou
+hast said. But first make
+me a small loaf, and then
+make one for thee and
+thy son. For thus saith
+the Lord, The meal shall
+not waste, nor the cruse
+of oil fail till the day the
+Lord sends rain on the
+earth.</p>
+
+<p>So the wo-man went
+her way and did as E-li-jah
+told her, and there was
+from that time no lack of
+food in her house. But
+one day her son was ill,
+and he grew worse and worse, and then died.</p>
+
+<p>When E-li-jah heard of it, he said, Give me thy
+son. And he took the child from her arms and bore
+him to his own room, and laid him on his bed.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[186]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And E-li-jah cried to the Lord, and said, O Lord,
+I pray thee let this child's soul come back to him.</p>
+
+<p>And the Lord sent back the soul of the child,
+and E-li-jah took the boy and brought him to his
+moth-er.</p>
+
+<p>And she said to E-li-jah, Now by this I know
+that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the
+Lord in thy mouth is truth.</p>
+
+<p>For three years there had been no rain in the
+land, and at the end of that time the Lord said to
+E-li-jah, Go show thy-self to A-hab, and I will send
+rain on the land.</p>
+
+<p>So E-li-jah went, and on the way he met with
+one of A-hab's head men, who loved the Lord. He
+knew E-li-jah, and bade him turn back, for the king
+would be sure to put him to death. But E-li-jah
+said that he would show him-self to A-hab that day.
+So the man told the king that E-li-jah was near, and
+the king came out to meet him.</p>
+
+<p>And he found fault with E-li-jah, for he thought
+he was to blame for the lack of food, and for the
+long drouth.</p>
+
+<p>E-li-jah told the king to have all those he ruled
+meet in a mass at one place. And when they came
+there, E-li-jah cried out to them, How long will ye
+turn your hearts from God?</p>
+
+<p>And he told them to prove which was the true<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[187]</a></span>
+God, Ba-al or E-li-jah's God. And he told them to
+bring two young bulls, and to take the flesh of one
+and lay it on the wood in front of Ba-al, and he would
+lay the flesh of the oth-er
+young bull on the
+Lord's al-tar. And he
+said, Call ye on your
+gods and I will call on
+mine, and let the God
+that sends down fire be
+the God whom we all
+shall serve.</p>
+
+<p>And they said it was
+a good plan.</p>
+
+<p>So they cried out
+from sun-rise till noon, O
+Ba-al hear us! But
+there was no voice or
+sign that their god heard
+them.</p>
+
+<p>E-li-jah said, Cry
+with a loud voice for he
+is a god. He may be
+a-sleep, or lost in thought.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 298px;">
+<img src="images/i_070.jpg" width="298" height="500" alt="cloud on the horizon" />
+<span class="caption">THE LIT-TLE CLOUD.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And they cried, and made a great noise, and at
+last fought with their knives till they drew blood.</p>
+
+<p>And E-li-jah said, Come near me.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[188]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And they all came near to him.</p>
+
+<p>And E-li-jah took twelve stones, and built an al-tar
+to the Lord. And he put the flesh and the wood
+on it, and the wood was wet through and through.</p>
+
+<p>Then he cried out, Hear me, O Lord, hear me,
+and let it be known that thou art the true God.</p>
+
+<p>Then fire came down from on high and burnt up
+the flesh, and the wood and the stones, and the dust;
+and the ground that had been made so wet was as dry
+as it could be.</p>
+
+<p>And when the crowd saw this they all bowed
+down to the ground, and said, The Lord he is God!
+The Lord he is God!</p>
+
+<p>And they broke up the false gods, and gave their
+hearts for a while to the Lord.</p>
+
+<p>Then E-li-jah told A-hab that he might eat and
+drink, for the rain would soon set in. And he went
+to the top of a high mount to pray for rain. Not a
+cloud was in the sky. The sea was calm. But E-li-jah
+knew that he must watch, and wait, and pray,
+and the sign would come.</p>
+
+<p>At last there rose up out of the sea&mdash;that is,
+where the sea and sky seem to meet&mdash;a small cloud,
+the size of a man's hand. And soon the sky was
+black with clouds, and the wind blew, and there was
+a great storm of rain.</p>
+
+<p>Now A-hab had a bad wife, and when he told<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[189]</a></span>
+her what E-li-jah had done, she made a vow to kill
+him.</p>
+
+<p>And E-li-jah had to flee for his life. 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 die. While he
+slept, an an-gel drew near,
+at whose touch E-li-jah
+woke. And the an-gel
+said, Rise and eat.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 255px;">
+<img src="images/i_071.jpg" width="255" height="400" alt="Elijah confronts Ahab" />
+<span class="caption">E-LI-JAH AND KING A-HAB.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And E-li-jah found
+food and drink set out for
+him. And he ate and
+drank, and then lay down
+and slept. And the an-gel
+came once more, and
+bade E-li-jah eat, that he
+might have strength to go
+on his way. And he sat
+up, and ate the food the
+Lord had sent, and it gave
+him such strength that he
+went with-out food for more than a month. And
+at the end of that time he came to Mount Ho-reb.
+And he went to a cave and lay down and slept there.</p>
+
+<p>And the Lord spoke to him, and said, Why art<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></span>
+thou here, E-li-jah? And E-li-jah said the chil-dren
+of Is-ra-el had not kept their word, but had gone
+back to their false
+gods, and slain all
+those who sought
+to turn them from
+their sins. And I
+have fled from
+them, said E-li-jah,
+for they seek my
+life.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 341px;">
+<img src="images/i_072.jpg" width="341" height="500" alt="Angel sent" />
+<span class="caption">E-LI-JAH IN THE WIL-DER-NESS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The Lord said,
+Go forth, and stand
+on the mount. And
+there came a great
+wind that split the
+high hills, and
+broke up the rocks.
+But the Lord was
+not in the wind.</p>
+
+<p>Then the earth
+shook, so that there
+was no firm ground
+on which to walk;
+and smoke came up out of the great cracks that were
+made. But the Lord was not in the earth-quake.</p>
+
+<p>Then there came a still, small voice. When E-li-jah<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[191]</a></span>
+heard it he hid his face in his cloak, and went
+out and stood at the door of the cave.</p>
+
+<p>And the voice said,
+Why art thou here, E-li-jah?
+And El-li-jah said
+that he fled from those
+who sought to kill him.
+And the Lord told him
+to leave the cave, and go
+back and pour oil on the
+head of E-li-sha, who
+was to take his place.</p>
+
+<p>And E-li-jah found
+E-li-sha at work with
+the plough in a large
+field. And as he went
+by him he threw his
+cloak round E-li-sha.</p>
+
+<p>And E-li-sha knew
+that this meant he must
+leave all and go with
+E-li-jah. And he went
+home to bid fare-well to
+his dear ones there, and
+then came back to be near E-li-jah and to wait on him.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 297px;">
+<img src="images/i_073.jpg" width="297" height="500" alt="chariot" />
+<span class="caption">E-LI-JAH GOES TO HEAV-EN.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now the time drew near when E-li-jah was to
+leave the earth. And he and E-li-sha stood near<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[192]</a></span>
+the shore of the Jor-dan. And E-li-jah took his
+cloak and struck the waves, and they made a wall
+on each side, and the two men went through on dry
+land. And as they stood on the oth-er side, E-li-jah
+said to E-li-sha, Ask what I shall do for thee, ere I
+leave thee.</p>
+
+<p>And E-li-sha said, Let me, I pray thee, be twice
+as good and wise as thou.</p>
+
+<p>E-li-jah said, Thou dost ask a hard thing. But
+if thou dost see me when the Lord takes me from
+thee, then it shall be so. But if thou dost not see,
+then it shall not be so.</p>
+
+<p>So they went on, and while they yet spoke, there
+came a great light in the sky, and the clouds took on
+strange forms. And E-li-jah was caught up as if by
+a whirl-wind, and E-li-sha cried out as he saw him
+pass through the sky, but he was soon out of sight,
+and E-li-sha saw him no more.</p><hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XVII.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>ELISHA.</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 334px;">
+<img src="images/i_074.jpg" width="334" height="500" alt="pre-bear" />
+<span class="caption">THE CHIL-DREN OF BETH-EL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">As</span> E-li-jah rose from the earth he let his cloak
+fall on E-li-sha. And E-li-sha went down to the
+Jor-dan, and took the cloak and struck the waves,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[193]</a></span>
+and they stood up on each side, so that he went
+a-cross dry shod. 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 place,
+and he gave proof
+that the Lord was
+with him.</p>
+
+<p>As E-li-sha went
+from Jer-i-cho to
+Beth-el, some young
+folks ran out and
+made fun of him, and
+cried, Go up, thou
+bald head! Go up,
+thou bald head!</p>
+
+<p>E-li-sha turned
+back, and asked the
+Lord to take them in
+hand. So the Lord
+sent two great bears
+out of the wood, and
+they fell on the chil-dren
+and tore o-ver
+two-score of them.</p>
+
+
+<p>One day E-li-sha came to Shu-nem, where a rich
+wo-man dwelt. And she bade him come in and eat.
+And as oft as he went that way, he made it a rule<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[194]</a></span>
+to stop and take the food and drink she set out
+for him.</p>
+
+<p>And she had a room built for him on the side of
+her house, and put a bed and a chair in it, that he
+might go in and out as he chose, and have a place
+to rest in.</p>
+
+<p>And one day when he was in this room, he sent
+for the wo-man to come to him. And he said to
+her, What can I do to pay thee for all thy kind care
+of us? Shall I speak to the king for thee? She
+said there was no need, that she sought no pay, and
+then left the room.</p>
+
+<p>E-li-sha said to his man, What is there that I can
+do for her?</p>
+
+<p>And the man said, She has no child.</p>
+
+<p>And E-li-sha said, Call her. And she came
+back and stood at the door. And when the man of
+God told her that she should have a son, she thought
+he did not speak the truth.</p>
+
+<p>And the word of the Lord came true, for in less
+than a year she had a son.</p>
+
+<p>And the child grew up, and went out one day to
+the field to see the men reap the corn. And while
+he was there he felt sick, and cried out to his fath-er,
+My head! my head!</p>
+
+<p>And his fath-er said to a lad, Take the boy home
+to his moth-er. And she took him, and he sat in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[195]</a></span>
+her lap till noon, and then died. And she took
+the boy to E-li-sha's room, and laid him on the bed
+of the man of God, and then went out and shut
+the door.</p>
+
+<p>Then she sent for one of the young men, and had
+him bring an ass to the door, and she got on the ass,
+and bade the man drive as fast as he could till she
+told him to stop.</p>
+
+<p>She went till she came near Mount Car-mel.
+And E-li-sha saw her, and sent Ge-ha-zi out to meet
+her, and to ask her if it was well with her and with
+the child. And she said to him, It is well.</p>
+
+<p>But when she came to E-li-sha she fell at his feet,
+and Ge-ha-zi drew near to push her from the man of
+God.</p>
+
+<p>But E-li-sha said, Touch her not. She is in
+great grief, and the Lord has hid it from me and not
+told me of it.</p>
+
+<p>And the wo-man said, Did I ask thee for a son?
+Then he knew that the boy was dead.</p>
+
+<p>Then E-li-sha said to Ge-ha-zi, Take my staff, and
+go thy way with all speed. Stop to speak to no one.
+And lay my staff on the face of the child.</p>
+
+<p>And the moth-er of the child said, As the Lord
+lives, I will not leave thee. And E-li-sha rose and
+went with her, while Ge-ha-zi ran on a-head. And
+he laid the staff on the face of the child, but the child<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[196]</a></span>
+did not speak nor hear. And he ran out to meet
+E-li-sha and to tell him the lad did not wake.</p>
+
+<p>And when E-li-sha came to the house he found
+the child dead, and laid on his bed. So he went in
+the room and shut the door, and prayed to the Lord.</p>
+
+<p>Then he got on the bed, and lay on the child till
+his flesh grew warm. Then he left the room for a-while
+to walk up and down, and when he went back
+he lay on the child till its breath came back, and it
+gave signs of life.</p>
+
+<p>And he sent for the moth-er. And when she
+came to the room he said, Take up thy son. And
+she fell at the feet of E-li-sha, with thanks too deep
+for words, and then took her son in her arms and
+went out.</p>
+
+<p>There was a man in Sy-ri-a, who took charge of
+all the troops that went to war with the king. This
+man's name was Na-a-man, and he had done brave
+deeds, for which he held high rank, and was much
+thought of. But this man fell ill, and none but those
+of his own house would go near him. And there
+was no cure for him. But his wife had a maid to
+wait on her. And this maid said that if Na-a-man
+would go to E-li-sha she was sure that he would cure
+him.</p>
+
+<p>And Na-a-man came down to Sa-ma-ri-a with a
+note from his own king to the king of Is-ra-el.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[197]</a></span>
+When the king of Is-ra-el read the note he was ve-ry
+wroth, and said, Am I God that I can bring the
+dead to life? For he thought that it was but a trick
+to bring on a
+war.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 309px;">
+<img src="images/i_075.jpg" width="309" height="400" alt="with the child" />
+<span class="caption">E-LI-SHA AND THE CHILD.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>When E-li-sha
+heard that
+the king rent his
+clothes, he sent
+word to have
+Na-a-man come
+to him.</p>
+
+<p>And Na-a-man
+drove up in
+fine style, and
+stood at the door
+of E-li-sha's
+house. And E-li-sha
+sent word to
+him to bathe at
+the Jor-dan sev-en
+times, and he
+would be made
+well.</p>
+
+<p>This put Na-a-man in a rage, for he thought that
+E-li-sha would come out to him and call on the name
+of God, and touch him so as to heal him.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[198]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And he said, Are there not streams in Da-mas-cus
+in which I can bathe and be made well? And
+he went off in a rage.</p>
+
+<p>But some of his men drew near, and said, My
+lord, if he had bid thee do some great thing wouldst
+thou not have done it? Why not then do as he says,
+and wash and be clean?</p>
+
+<p>And Na-a-man gave heed to their words and
+went down to the Jor-dan. And he took sev-en
+baths, and then his flesh grew as soft and pink as
+the flesh of a child, and health and strength came
+back to him. And Na-a-man went back to E-li-sha's
+house, he and all his men, and he said, Now I know
+there is no God in all the earth but the God of Is-ra-el.</p>
+
+<p>Now the time drew near when E-li-sha was to
+die. And the king, Jo-ash, came to see him as he
+lay sick in bed.</p>
+
+<p>And E-li-sha said, Take the bow and the darts.
+And the king took them. And E-li-sha said, Put
+thy hands on the bow. And the king did so, and
+E-li-sha put his hands on the king's hands. Then
+E-li-sha said, Throw wide the east win-dow. And
+when this was done he said shoot. And the king
+shot; and E-li-sha told him that he should set Is-ra-el
+free from its foes.</p>
+
+<p>Then he said to the king, Take the darts. And<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[199]</a></span>
+he took them. And E-li-sha said, Strike them on
+the ground. And the king struck them on the
+ground three times, and no more.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 330px;">
+<img src="images/i_076.jpg" width="330" height="400" alt="firing the arrow" />
+<span class="caption">THE AR-ROW OF DE-LIV-ER-ANCE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And the
+man of God was
+wroth with him,
+and said, Thou
+shouldst have
+struck five or
+six times, for
+then thou
+wouldst have
+laid the Sy-ri-ans
+low, now
+thou shalt smite
+them but three
+times.</p>
+
+<p>And E-li-sha
+died, and
+was laid in the
+ground. And
+one day as some
+of the folks
+went out with a dead man to lay him in the grave
+that was dug for him, they saw a band of thieves
+from the land of Mo-ab and did not dare to go on.
+So they put the dead man in the grave where E-li-sha<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[200]</a></span>
+lay. And as soon as the corpse touched the
+bones of E-li-sha the man came to life and stood
+on his feet.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XVIII.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>JONAH, THE MAN WHO TRIED TO HIDE FROM GOD.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">There</span> was a seer in Is-ra-el whose name was
+Jo-nah. And the Lord told Jo-nah to go to Nin-e-veh,
+a large town where there was great need of good
+men. But Jo-nah did not care to go there, so he
+ran down to Jop-pa and found a ship there that would
+set sail for Tar-shish in a few days. So he paid his
+fare, and went on board the ship to go to Tar-shish,
+where he seemed to think the Lord would not find
+him.</p>
+
+<p>But as soon as the ship was well on its way, the
+Lord sent forth a great wind, and the waves rose
+high, and the storm beat the ship, and it was blown
+here and there as if it were a toy. And those on
+board of her were in great fear, and cried out to their
+gods, and threw all the goods that were in the ship
+in-to the sea, so that she would not sink.</p>
+
+<p>Jo-nah was down in the hold, where he lay and
+slept, though the storm was so fierce.</p>
+
+<p>And the one who had charge of the ship came<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[201]</a></span>
+to him and said, What does this mean? Rise, and
+call on thy God to save us from ship-wreck.</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 332px;">
+<img src="images/i_077.jpg" width="332" height="400" alt="the storm" />
+<span class="caption">JO-NAH IN THE STORM.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And the rest of the men said, Come, and let us
+cast lots that we
+may know who
+is to blame for
+this.</p>
+
+
+<p>So they cast
+lots, and the lot
+fell on Jo-nah.
+And they said
+to him, Tell us,
+we pray thee,
+who has brought
+on us these ills.
+What is thy
+trade? where
+dost thou come
+from? where
+dost thou live?
+and of what tribe
+art thou?</p>
+
+<p>And he said
+I am a Jew, and have fled from the Lord who made
+the sea and sky.</p>
+
+<p>And the men were in great fear and said, Why
+hast thou done this thing? And what shall we do<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[202]</a></span>
+to thee that the sea may be still for us? For the
+waves were rough, and the winds blew a gale.</p>
+
+<p>And Jo-nah said to the men, Take me up and
+cast me in-to the sea; then shall the sea be calm for
+you, for I know it is for my sake that this great storm
+has come up-on you.</p>
+
+<p>The men did not want to drown Jo-nah, so they
+tried their best to bring the ship to land, but could
+not.</p>
+
+<p>Then they cried to the Lord, O Lord, we pray
+thee, count it no sin to us that we take this man's
+life, for thou, O Lord, hast sent this storm on us for
+some of his sins.</p>
+
+<p>So they took up Jo-nah, and cast him in-to the
+sea, and the sea grew still and calm.</p>
+
+<p>And when the men saw this they were in great
+fear, and brought gifts to the Lord, and made vows
+that they would serve him.</p>
+
+<p>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 sea.</p>
+
+<p>And Jo-nah was in-side the fish for three days
+and three nights. And he prayed to the Lord while
+he was in the fish; and cried to God to help him, and
+to blot out his sins. And God heard him, and bade
+the fish throw him up on the dry land.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Lord spoke to Jo-nah once more, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[203]</a></span>
+said, Rise, and go to Nin-e-veh, and preach to it as I
+bid thee.</p>
+
+<p>And Jo-nah rose and went.</p>
+
+<p>And when God saw them turn from their sins and
+pray to him, he did not do to Nin-e-veh as he said
+he would.</p>
+
+<p>But this did not please Jo-nah. He thought that
+Nin-e-veh should be brought low, for those who dwelt
+there were not good friends to the Jews. Then, too,
+Jo-nah's pride was hurt, for he knew that men would
+laugh at him, and have no faith in what he said, so
+he went out of the town and sat down by the road-side.</p>
+
+<p>And God made a vine to grow up there in one
+night, that Jo-nah might sit in its shade and find rest
+from his grief. And Jo-nah was glad when he saw
+the gourd. The next morn God sent a worm to gnaw
+the root of the vine, and it soon dried up.</p>
+
+<p>When the sun rose God sent a hot wind, and the
+sun beat on Jo-nah's head so that he grew sick and
+fell in a faint. And he was wroth, and had no wish
+to live.</p>
+
+<p>And God said to Jo-nah, Is it well for thee to be
+in such grief for the loss of a gourd?</p>
+
+<p>And Jo-nah said, Yes. There was good cause
+why he should feel as he did and long to die.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Lord said to him, Thou wouldst have<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[204]</a></span>
+had me spare this vine which cost thee nought, and
+which grew up in a night and died in a night. And
+why should I not spare Nin-e-veh&mdash;that great town&mdash;in
+which are hosts and hosts of young folks who do
+not know their right hand from their left?</p>
+
+<p>So God put Jo-nah to shame, 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
+him.</p>
+
+<p>And Jo-nah found out, what we all need to learn,
+that it is of no use to try to hide from God.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XIX.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>DANIEL.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">There</span> was a king of Bab-y-lon whose name was
+Neb-u-chad-nez-zar. And he sent one of his chief
+men to choose some of the young Jews who had
+been well brought up, that they might wait on him.</p>
+
+<p>The chief chose four youths whose name were
+Dan-i-el, Sha-drach, Me-shach and A-bed-ne-go.
+And these were brought to Bab-y-lon, that they
+might be taught as the king wished.</p>
+
+<p>And the Lord was with these four young men,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[205]</a></span>
+and made them wise, and strong in mind, and fair
+of face.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 417px;">
+<img src="images/i_078.jpg" width="417" height="500" alt="king" />
+<span class="caption">KING NEB-U-CHAD-NEZ-ZAR.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>When they had been taught for three years they
+were brought
+to the king's
+house. And
+the king kept
+them near
+him, and
+made use of
+them, for he
+found that
+they knew ten
+times more
+than all the
+wise men in
+the whole
+realm.</p>
+
+<p>One night
+the king had
+a dream that
+woke him out
+of his sleep.
+And he sent
+for all the wise
+men&mdash;those who could read stars, and those who
+could work charms&mdash;to tell what the dream meant.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[206]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And they all came, but none of them could tell
+the dream that had gone out of the king's own head.
+And no king, they said, would ask such a thing of
+wise men.</p>
+
+<p>The king was wroth at this and gave word that
+all the wise men should be put to death. And they
+sought Dan-i-el and his friends, that they might kill
+them.</p>
+
+<p>Dan-i-el said, Why is there such haste? 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 him.</p>
+
+<p>In the night God showed the king's dream to
+Dan-i-el, and all that it meant was made clear to him.
+And Dan-i-el gave praise and thanks to God who
+had been so good to him.</p>
+
+<p>Then he went to the chief, and told him not to
+slay the wise men, but to bring him in to the king.</p>
+
+<p>Then Dan-i-el told the king his dream, and all
+that would come to pass, and when the king heard
+it he fell on his face be-fore Dan-i-el and said to him,
+It is true that your God is a God of gods, and a
+Lord of kings, and that nought is hid from him, since
+thou hast told me this dream.</p>
+
+<p>And the king made Dan-i-el a great man, and
+gave him rich gifts, and put him at the head of all
+the wise men in the land.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[207]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Now king Neb-u-chad-nez-zar made a great god
+out of gold, and set it on one of the plains of Bab-y-lon.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 390px;">
+<img src="images/i_079.jpg" width="390" height="500" alt="dream" />
+<span class="caption">NEB-U-CHAD-NEZ-ZAR&#39;S DREAM.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And one of the king's men cried out with a loud
+voice, and said
+it was the king's
+law that all
+should bow
+down to the god
+of gold that he
+had set up. And
+those who did
+not bow down
+were to be thrown
+in-to a great hot
+fire and burnt
+up.</p>
+
+<p>And some
+men brought
+word to the king
+that the three
+Jews would not
+serve his gods,
+or bow down
+to this one of
+gold which he had set up.</p>
+
+<p>These three men were brought to the king, and
+he said to them, Is it true, O Sha-drach, Me-shach,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[208]</a></span>
+and A-bed-ne-go that ye will not serve my gods or
+bow down to the one of gold which I have set up?
+And he said he would give them one more chance, and
+if they did not bow down when they heard the call,
+they should be cast in the same hour in-to the flames.
+The three Jews said to the king, Be it known to thee
+now that we will not serve thy gods, nor bow down
+to the new one thou hast set up. And if we are cast
+in the fire, the God whom we serve will save us from
+death and bring us out of thy hands, O king.</p>
+
+<p>Then was the king in a great rage, and he sent
+word that a fierce fire should be made. And the
+three Jews were bound and thrown in-to the flames
+with all their clothes on. And the fire was so hot
+and they went so near that sparks flew out and killed
+the men who took up Sha-drach, Me-shach and A-bed-ne-go.</p>
+
+<p>These three Jews fell down in the midst of the
+flames, but soon rose to their feet, and the Lord
+would not let the flames burn them.</p>
+
+<p>When the king saw this he rose in great haste
+and said to his chiefs, Did we not cast three men
+bound in the midst of the fire?</p>
+
+<p>And they said, True, O king.</p>
+
+<p>And the king said, Lo, I see four men loose, and
+they walk through the flames and are not hurt, and
+the form of the fourth is like to the son of God.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[209]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Then the king came to the door of the cage of
+fire and said to Sha-drach, Me-shach and A-bed-ne-go,
+Ye who serve the most high God, come forth,
+and come here.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 346px;">
+<img src="images/i_080.jpg" width="346" height="350" alt="living with beasts" />
+<span class="caption">DWELL-ING WITH THE BEASTS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And the
+three young
+Jews came forth
+out of the midst
+of the fire, and
+not a hair of
+their head was
+singed, nor were
+their clothes
+harmed, nor
+was the smell of
+fire on them.</p>
+
+<p>And the
+king praised the
+God who had
+shown that he
+would save
+from death
+those who put their trust in him. And the king
+made it a law that those who spoke ill of the God of
+Sha-drach, Me-shach, and A-bed-ne-go should be
+put to death, and their homes torn down, for there
+was no God who could save as he could.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[210]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>For a while the king served God and gave him
+praise for all he had done for him. But men who
+thought to please the king, spoke of his great wealth
+and praised all that he did, so that he grew vain and
+proud, and thought more of him-self than he did of
+God.</p>
+
+<p>And the king had a dream that made him shake
+with fear, and he sent for Dan-i-el. And Dan-i-el
+feared to tell the king the truth. But the king told
+him to speak out. Then Dan-i-el told him what
+would take place.</p>
+
+<p>And it all came on king Neb-u-chad-nez-zar. In
+the same hour his mind left him and he was not fit
+to reign. So he was thrust out of doors, and did eat
+grass with the beasts of the fields. And he lay on
+the ground, and was wet with the dews, and his hair
+grew so long that his flesh could not be seen, and his
+nails were like bird's claws.</p>
+
+<p>And at the end of the sev-en years Neb-u-chad-nez-zar
+raised his eyes to God, and his mind came
+back to him, and he spoke in praise of the most High.</p>
+
+<p>And Neb-u-chad-nez-zar was made king once
+more, and grew strong and great, and gave the praise
+to God; the King of kings, who could raise up those
+who were down, and bring down those who were full
+of pride.</p>
+
+<p>When Neb-u-chad-nez-zar died, a new king was
+on the throne of Bab-y-lon whose name was Bel-shaz-zar.
+And Bel-shaz-zar made a great feast, and much
+wine was drunk. And the king sent for the rich cups
+which his fath-er had brought from the Lord's house
+in Je-ru-sa-lem. And he and all at the feast drank
+from these cups, which was a great sin.</p>
+
+<p>In the midst of the feast there came forth a man's
+hand, that wrote on the wall of the king's house.</p>
+
+<p>And the king saw the hand, and was in great
+fear, and sent at once for all his wise men.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i_081.jpg" width="600" height="460" alt="writing" />
+<span class="caption">THE WRIT-ING ON THE WALL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>But none of them could read what was on the
+wall, and the king knew not what to do. Then
+Dan-i-el was sent for, and the king said he should
+have great wealth and high rank if he could read the
+words on the wall.</p>
+
+<p>Dan-i-el said, Keep thy gifts, O king, and give
+thy fees to some one else. Yet will I read the words
+on the wall and tell you what they mean. For the
+God who gives thee life and takes care of thee,
+thou hast no word of praise. And so God sent
+this hand to write on the wall.</p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<span class="smcap">Me-ne, Me-ne, Te-kel, U-phar-sin</span>,<br />
+</div>
+
+<div class='unindent'>which means that thy reign as king is at an end.</div>
+
+<p>When Dan-i-el had told what the hand wrote on
+the wall, and what the words meant, Bel-shaz-zar bade
+his men clothe him in red, and put a gold chain on<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[212]</a><br /><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[214]</a></span>
+his neck, and make it known that he was to be third
+in rank from the king.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i_082.jpg" width="600" height="446" alt="lions and Daniel" />
+<span class="caption">DAN-I-EL IN THE LIONS&#39; DEN.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>That same night Bel-shaz-zar was slain, and Da-ri-us
+took his place on the throne.</p>
+
+<p>Now Da-ri-us was pleased with Dan-i-el, and
+thought him such a wise and good man that he made
+him chief of a large force of men who held high rank.
+And this made these men hate Dan-i-el, and they
+tried to find out some ill that he had done that they
+might tell it to the king. But they could find no
+fault in him. Then they thought of a way in which
+they could harm him.</p>
+
+<p>They came to the king and asked him to make a
+law that if one should ask help of God or man for
+one month, he should be cast in-to a den of li-ons.</p>
+
+<p>They might ask help of the king, but of no one
+else.</p>
+
+<p>And the king told them to write down this law,
+and he put his name to it.</p>
+
+<p>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-lem,
+and gave thanks to God first as he had done all
+his life.</p>
+
+<p>And the men who were on the watch to catch
+him in some crime, drew near his house and heard
+him pray to his God. So they went and told the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[215]</a></span>
+king, and the king was wroth to think he had made
+such a law. And he tried his best to save Dan-i-el.
+But the men held him to his word, and said it would
+not do for him to change a law that had been made.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 333px;">
+<img src="images/i_083.jpg" width="333" height="350" alt="grave" />
+<span class="caption">ROCK GRAVE OF DA-RI-US.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then the
+king bade them
+bring Dan-i-el
+and cast him in
+the den of wild
+beasts. And
+he said to Dan-i-el,
+Thy God,
+whom thou dost
+serve so well,
+will be sure to
+save thee.</p>
+
+<p>And a stone
+was brought
+and laid on the
+mouth of the
+den.</p>
+
+<p>Then the
+king went to his own house, but would take no food,
+nor did he sleep all that night. And at dawn he
+rose and went in haste to the den of wild beasts.
+And as he drew near he cried out with a sad voice, O
+Dan-i-el, canst thy God save thee from the li-ons?</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[216]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And Dan-i-el said, O king, my God hath shut the
+li-ons' mouths so that they have not hurt me, since
+I had done no wrong in his sight nor in thine, O king.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 312px;">
+<img src="images/i_084.jpg" width="312" height="400" alt="Cyrus" />
+<span class="caption">CY-RUS, KING OF PER-SI-A.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then the king
+was glad, and bade
+his men take Dan-i-el
+out of the den. And
+when he was brought
+out, there was not a
+scratch found on him,
+for his trust was in
+God, and God took
+care of him.</p>
+
+<p>Then the king
+had those men who
+found fault with
+Dan-i-el, thrown in-to
+the den&mdash;they and
+their wives, and their
+chil-dren&mdash;and the
+wild beasts were quick
+to eat them up.</p>
+
+
+<p>Then Da-ri-us made a law that all men should
+serve the God of Dan-i-el, who was the one true God.</p>
+
+<p>When Da-ri-us died, Cy-rus was made king.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[217]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XX.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>THE GOOD QUEEN ESTHER.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Far</span> back in the past, wise men had fore-told that
+the Jews would be kept out of Je-ru-sa-lem for three-score
+and ten years, and at the end of that time a
+king, Cy-rus, would let them go back to the land they
+came from. And he did so.</p>
+
+<p>Not all the Jews went back to their own land,
+but some of them made their homes in Per-si-a and
+else-where. And King A-has-u-e-rus was on the
+throne.</p>
+
+<p>In the third year of his reign he made a great
+feast.</p>
+
+<p>And he sent for Vash-ti, the queen, to throw off
+her veil and let his guests see how fair she was.</p>
+
+<p>But Vash-ti would not do it.</p>
+
+<p>Then the king was in a rage, and said to his
+wise men, What shall we do to Queen Vash-ti to
+make her know that the king's will is her law?</p>
+
+<p>And the wise men said, Vash-ti hath done wrong
+to the king and to all the lords of the land.</p>
+
+<p>For when this is told, wives will not do as their
+liege lords wish. They will say, The king sent word<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[218]</a></span>
+for Vash-ti, the queen, to be brought to him, but she
+came not. Let the king make a law and put Vash-ti
+from him and choose a new queen, that all wives,
+great and small, may take heed and do as they are
+told.</p>
+
+<p>The king and all the lords thought these were
+wise words. And the king made it a law that a man
+should rule in his own house.</p>
+
+<p>Then some of the king's men, whose place it was
+to wait on him, 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 house, that he might choose one
+of them to be queen, in the place of Vash-ti.</p>
+
+<p>And the king did as they said.</p>
+
+<p>Now there was a Jew in the king's house, whose
+name was Mor-de-ca-i. He was a poor man, and
+was there to wait on the king.</p>
+
+<p>And there was a maid named Es-ther, who was
+one of his kins-folk. And she was "fair of face, and
+full of grace."</p>
+
+<p>And when the word went forth from the king,
+scores and scores of fair young maids came to the
+king's house, and Es-ther came with them. And
+one of the king's men had them all in his charge.</p>
+
+<p>This man was so pleased with Es-ther that he was
+more kind to her than he was to the rest, and sent
+maids to wait on her, and put her and her maids
+in the best part of the house where the wo-men were.
+But Es-ther had not let it be known that her folks
+were Jews, for Mor-de-ca-i had told her not to tell it.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 458px;">
+<img src="images/i_085.jpg" width="458" height="600" alt="Esther before the king" />
+<span class="caption">ES-THER AND THE KING.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>As soon as the king saw Es-ther he fell in love
+with her, and set the crown on her head, and made
+her queen in the place of Vash-ti.</p>
+
+<p>Then the king made a great feast, and gave gifts
+to the poor for the new queen's sake. And she had
+not yet made it known that her folks were Jews.</p>
+
+<p>Now two of the king's men, who stood on guard
+at the doors of his house, were wroth with the king
+and sought to kill him.</p>
+
+<p>And their plot was known to Mor-de-ca-i, who
+was a watch-man at the king's gate. And he told it
+to Es-ther, and she told it to the king, and both of
+the men were hung. And what Mor-de-ca-i had
+done to save the king's life was put down in a book.</p>
+
+<p>And in this same book was set down all that took
+place in the king's reign.</p>
+
+<p>Now there was in the king's house a man whose
+name was Ha-man. And the king gave him a high
+place, and bade those of low rank bow down to
+Ha-man.</p>
+
+<p>But the Jew at the gate would not bow when
+Ha-man went in and out. And the rest of the men
+who stood by told Ha-man of it.</p>
+
+<p>Now Ha-man was a vain man, and when he saw<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[220]</a><br /><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[221]</a></span>
+that Mor-de-ca-i did not bow to him as the rest did
+he was full of wrath. It had been made known to
+him that Mor-de-ca-i was a Jew.</p>
+
+<p>And so he told the king if he would make a law
+that all the Jews should be put to death, he would
+give him a large sum of gold and sil-ver.</p>
+
+<p>The king heard what Ha-man said, and then
+took his ring from his hand and gave it to Ha-man,
+and told him to do with the Jews as he thought
+best. The king gave him his ring that he might use
+it as a seal. And Ha-man set the scribes to work,
+and they wrote just what he told them, in the king's
+name. And when the wax was put at the end with
+the king's seal on it, it was the same as if the whole
+had been writ by the king's own hand.</p>
+
+<p>Men were sent out in haste to make the law
+known through-out the land, that all the Jews in
+Per-si-a were to be slain. And when this was done
+Ha-man and the king sat down to drink wine.</p>
+
+<p>When Mor-de-ca-i heard of the law that Ha-man
+had made, he rent his clothes and put on sack-cloth,
+and went out and cried with a loud cry. And he
+came and stood in front of the king's gate, though he
+could not pass through, for it was the law that none
+should pass who wore sack-cloth. And all through
+the land the Jews were in deep grief, so full of
+tears that they could eat no food; and not a few<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[222]</a></span>
+of them put on sack-cloth to show the depth of
+their woe.</p>
+
+<p>Queen Es-ther had not heard of the law, but her
+maids came and told her of the state Mor-de-ca-i was
+in. And her grief was great, and she sent food and
+clothes to him, and bade the men take the sack-cloth
+from him. But Mor-de-ca-i would take nought from
+their hands, nor change his clothes.</p>
+
+<p>Then the queen sent one of her head men, Ha-tach,
+to ask Mor-de-ca-i what was the cause of his
+grief, and why he had put on sack-cloth.</p>
+
+<p>And Mor-de-ca-i told Ha-tach of the law that had
+been made, 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 land.</p>
+
+<p>And he told Ha-tach to tell the queen, and to
+show her what the scribes wrote, and bid her see the
+king and ask him to save the Jews.</p>
+
+<p>And Ha-tach took the word to the queen.</p>
+
+<p>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 for, would be put to death.
+But if the king held out his gold wand it was a sign
+that he would spare their lives. The king has not
+sent for me for a month, said she. How then can I
+go to him?</p>
+
+<p>Mor-de-ca-i sent back word to the queen to think<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[223]</a></span>
+not that the king would spare her life if the Jews were
+put to death. And it might be that God had put her
+in the place she held
+that she might keep
+the Jews at this time.</p>
+
+<p>Then Es-ther sent
+word to him that he
+and all the Jews in the
+king's court should fast
+and pray for her, and
+not eat or drink for
+three days and three
+nights.</p>
+
+<p>I and my maids
+will do the same, said
+the queen, and I will
+go in to the king in
+spite of the law; and
+if I die, I die in a
+good cause.</p>
+
+<p>So on the third day
+af-ter the queen put
+on her rich robes, and
+went in and stood
+ve-ry near to the throne on which the king sat.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 312px;">
+<img src="images/i_086.jpg" width="312" height="500" alt="Esther" />
+<span class="caption">ES-THER AT SHUS-HAN.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And when the king saw her, God put it in-to his
+heart to be kind, and he held out to her the gold<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[224]</a></span>
+wand that was in his hand. And the queen drew
+near, and touched the tip of the wand.</p>
+
+<p>Then the king said, What wilt thou, Queen Es-ther?
+and what wouldst thou ask of me? Were it
+half of my realm I would give it to thee.</p>
+
+<p>The queen said, If it please the king, I would
+like him and Ha-man to come this day to a feast I
+have made for them.</p>
+
+<p>And the king bade Ha-man make haste, and
+they both went to the feast. And while they drank
+the wine the king told the queen to make known her
+wish.</p>
+
+<p>But she put him off and said she would tell him
+the next day, if he and Ha-man would come to the
+feast that she would spread for them.</p>
+
+<p>And Ha-man's heart was full of pride, since the
+queen chose him and no one else to feast with her
+and the king. And when he went out he felt that
+all men ought to bow down to him. But Mor-de-ca-i
+would not. And Ha-man told all his friends
+how kind the king and queen were to him, and
+what high rank he held, and said that his life would
+be full of joy if it were not for the Jew at the king's
+gate.</p>
+
+<p>Ha-man's wife told him to fix a rope to a tall
+tree, and speak to the king the next day and have
+him hang the Jew. And Ha-man made a slip-noose<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[225]</a></span>
+at the end of a rope, and had the rope made fast to
+a tall tree.</p>
+
+<p>Now that night the king could not sleep. And
+he sent for the book in which was put down all that
+took place in the realm, and had it read to him.
+And when he who read came to the part which told
+what Mor-de-ca-i had done to save the king's life, the
+king said, How has Mor-de-ca-i been paid for this
+deed?</p>
+
+<p>And the man said he had had nought, and still
+kept watch at the king's gate.</p>
+
+<p>Then the king heard a step and sent one of
+his men to see who it was.</p>
+
+<p>Now Ha-man had come to the king's house to
+ask him to hang Mor-de-ca-i. And the man came
+back and said that Ha-man stood in the court. And
+the king said, Let him come in.</p>
+
+<p>So Ha-man came in. And the king said to him,
+What shall be done to the man who has won the
+praise of the king?</p>
+
+<p>And Ha-man thought, That means me, of course,
+and no one else.</p>
+
+<p>And he said to the king, Let the robes be brought
+that the king wears, and the horse he rides, and the
+crown which is set on his head. And let the robes
+and the crown be put on the man whom the king has
+in mind, and bring him on horse-back through the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[226]</a></span>
+street of the town, and have men cry out, Thus shall
+it be done to the man who has won the praise of the
+king.</p>
+
+<p>And the king said to Ha-man, Make haste and
+take the robes and the horse as thou hast said, and
+do thus and no less to the Jew at the king's gate.</p>
+
+<p>But Ha-man went home, and was full of shame.
+And he told his wife and his friends of his hard fate.
+And while they yet spake the king's men came for
+him to go to the queen's feast. And while they ate
+and drank, the king bade the queen make known her
+wish. Ask what thou wilt; were it half my realm, I
+would give it to thee.</p>
+
+<p>Then the queen said, If it please thee, O king,
+take my life and spare the lives of all the Jews. For
+we have been sold and the truth has not been told of
+us, and we are to be put to death. The king said,
+Who is he, and where is he who has dared to do
+this thing?</p>
+
+<p>And the queen told him it was Ha-man. And
+Ha-man was in great fear as he stood face to face
+with the king and queen.</p>
+
+<p>The king rose in great wrath and went out of
+doors, and when he came in he saw Ha-man at the
+feet of the queen, where he went to beg her to save
+his life.</p>
+
+<p>And when the king was shown the rope and the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[227]</a></span>
+tree on which Ha-man meant to hang Mor-de-ca-i
+he said, Hang <i>him</i> on it. And they hung Ha-man,
+and the king's wrath left him.</p>
+
+<p>And on the same day the king gave Ha-man's
+house to Es-ther, and Mor-de-ca-i was brought in to
+the king, who had been told that he was a kins-man
+of the queen. And the king gave him the ring which
+Ha-man had worn, and the queen put him at the
+head of the house in which Ha-man had dwelt.</p>
+
+<p>But Es-ther was still sad at heart be-cause of the
+law that had been made, that all the Jews in the land
+should be put to death. And she went in once
+more to the king&mdash;though he had not sent for her&mdash;and
+fell down at his feet in tears. Then the king
+held out the wand of gold, and the queen rose, and
+stood be-fore the king and asked him to change the
+law and save the lives of the Jews.</p>
+
+<p>The king could not change the law, 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 seal. So they
+made a law that the Jews should kill all those who
+came to do them harm. And when Mor-de-ca-i
+came out from his talk with the king he had on a
+robe of blue and white, such as the king wore, and
+a gold crown on his head.</p>
+
+<p>And all the Jews were glad; and when the day
+came that Ha-man had set for the Jews to be slain,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[228]</a></span>
+the Jews went out and fought for their lives and put
+their foes to rout. And grief gave place to joy, and
+a feast was held for two days. This feast was called
+the Feast of Pu-rim, which the Jews keep to this
+day.</p>
+
+<p>The Jews who had gone to Je-ru-sa-lem to build
+up its walls were still at work there. But there were
+foes to watch, and the poor Jews found fault with
+the rich ones, and there was strife in their midst
+from year to year. But when Ne-he-mi-ah went to
+their aid the Lord gave him strength to set things
+straight, and in a year the new wall was built and
+the gate put up. Then there was a great feast, and
+all the Jews gave praise and thanks to God.</p>
+
+<p>But they went back to their sins, and did not
+serve God as they ought. And kings fought for Je-ru-sa-lem
+and took it from their hands and made the
+Jews their slaves.</p>
+
+<p>And at last the Ro-mans came and took Je-ru-sa-lem
+and broke down its walls, and made the Jews
+serve them. And He-rod, who had led the Ro-mans
+to war, was made their king. He was a fierce, bad
+man, who would let no one rule but him-self. He
+put his own wife and two of his sons to death, and
+did all that he could to make folks hate and fear him.</p>
+
+<p>He tried to make the Jews think that he was one of
+their race, but he was not. He thought it would<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[229]</a></span>
+please them if he built up their House of God, so he
+set men to work to tear down the old and to put up
+the new, and they made use of much gold and sil-ver
+and fine white stones.</p>
+
+<p>There was no ark to put in it, for that had been
+lost, but a large stone was put in the place where the
+ark should have been.</p>
+
+<p>And it took He-rod more than nine years to build
+this House of God on the top of Mount Mo-ri-ah.
+And the way up to it was by a long flight of steps.</p>
+
+<p>This ends the Old Tes-ta-ment, which was made
+up of all the books that were kept by all the scribes
+from the time the world was made.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 195px;">
+<img src="images/i_087.jpg" width="195" height="200" alt="Baby Jesus" />
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[231]</a><br /><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[232]</a></span></p>
+<h2>The New Testament</h2>
+<hr class="chap" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 386px;">
+<img src="images/i_088.jpg" width="386" height="450" alt="Boy Jesus" />
+<span class="caption">CHRIST IN THE TEM-PLE.</span>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 446px;">
+<img src="images/i_089.jpg" width="446" height="600" alt="Nativity" />
+<span class="caption">THE BABE OF BETH-LE-HEM.</span>
+</div><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[234]</a><br /><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[235]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>History of the New Testament.</h2>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER I.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">The</span> time was near for Je-sus to come on the
+earth. God had told Ad-am and Eve of one who
+would save them from their sins. Mo-ses, and all the
+seers and wise men, spoke of him who was to give
+men new hearts, and help them to lead new lives.</p>
+
+<p>In the days of He-rod, king of Ju-dah, there was
+a priest named Zach-a-ri-as. His wife's name was
+E-liz-a-beth. They were both old, and had led pure
+lives, and sought to keep God's laws. But they had
+no child.</p>
+
+<p>One day when the priest was in the house of
+God by one of the al-tars, an an-gel came and stood
+near him. And when the priest saw him he shook
+with fear.</p>
+
+<p>But the an-gel said: Fear not, Zach-a-ri-as, for
+God will give thee and thy wife a son, and thou
+shalt call his name John.</p>
+
+<p>He shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and
+shall not drink wine nor strong drink, and shall turn
+the hearts of men to the Lord their God.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[236]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Then Zach-a-ri-as said to the an-gel, But how
+shall I know that these things will be?</p>
+
+<p>And the an-gel said to him, I am the an-gel
+Ga-bri-el, who stands near to God, and he has sent
+me to tell thee this good news. And for thy lack of
+faith thou shalt be dumb, and speak not a word till
+the day that these things come to pass.</p>
+
+<p>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-cense.</p>
+
+<p>And when he came out he could not speak to
+them, but made them know by signs that he had
+seen a strange sight.</p>
+
+<p>Six months from this time God sent the an-gel
+Ga-bri-el to the town of Naz-a-reth, to a young wo-man
+there whose name was Ma-ry. She was one of
+the heirs of King Da-vid.</p>
+
+<p>When Ma-ry saw the an-gel she was in great
+fear, for she knew not why he had come. And the
+an-gel said: Fear not, Ma-ry, for God has blessed
+thee. Thou shalt have a son, and shalt call his
+name <span class="smcap">Je-sus</span>. He shall be great, and shall be called
+the Son of God. And God will make him a king,
+and to his reign there shall be no end.</p>
+
+<p>Ma-ry said: How can this be?</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 486px;">
+<img src="images/i_090.jpg" width="486" height="600" alt="Annunciation" />
+<span class="caption">THE AN-NUN-CIA-TION.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The an-gel told her that what might seem hard
+for her was not hard for God, who could do all
+things. He had told E-liz-a-beth that she should
+have a son, and he had now sent word to Ma-ry
+that she should have a son; and what he had said
+he would do.</p>
+
+<p>Then Ma-ry said, Let the Lord's will be done.
+And the an-gel left her.</p>
+
+<p>Ma-ry made haste and went to the land of Ju-dah,
+and to the house of E-liz-a-beth and Zach-a-ri-as,
+where she spent three months. Then she came
+back to her own home. Jo-seph was the name of
+Ma-ry's hus-band; and he was a Jew, of King Da-vid's
+line. They were both poor, and Jo-seph had
+to work hard at his trade. He was a car-pen-ter.</p>
+
+<p>God gave Zach-a-ri-as and E-liz-a-beth the son
+that he said they should have. And when the child
+was eight days old, the friends and kins-folk came
+to see it and to give it a name. Most of them said,
+Call him Zach-a-ri-as.</p>
+
+<p>But the child's mo-ther said, Not so. He shall
+be called John.</p>
+
+<p>And they said, There is none of thy kin-dred
+that is called by this name.</p>
+
+<p>And they made signs to the fa-ther that he
+should let them know by what name the child should
+be called.</p>
+
+<p>And the fa-ther sat down and wrote: His name
+is John. And they all thought this strange, as he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[238]</a><br /><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[239]</a></span>
+had not told them of the an-gel who spoke to him in
+the house of God.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as Zach-a-ri-as wrote these words his
+speech came back to him, and he gave praise and
+thanks to God. And all the folks in that part of the
+land heard of these things, and they said, What
+sort of a child shall this be? And the boy grew
+tall and strong, and the Lord blest him, and he went
+out and dwelt in the woods and waste lands till he
+was a man, and it was time for him to preach to the
+Jews and to tell them of Je-sus.</p>
+
+<p>Now the king of Rome was called a Ce-sar,
+in the speech of that land, and the Jews had to do
+just as he said, for they were his slaves. And he
+made a law that the names of all the Jews should
+be put down in a book, that it might be known what
+tribe they came from, and what they were worth.
+Then, too, 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 won.</p>
+
+<p>And each Jew was to go to that part of the land
+where his fore-fa-thers dwelt, and have his name put
+down in the book at that place.</p>
+
+<p>So, as Jo-seph and his wife were of the house of
+Da-vid, they both set out for the town of Beth-le-hem,
+where Da-vid used to feed his sheep. The
+way was long, and when they came to the town they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[240]</a></span>
+found a great crowd of folks there. There was no
+room for Jo-seph and Ma-ry at the inn, and they
+knew no one at whose house they could stay.</p>
+
+<p>As they went from place to place in search of a
+room, they came to a shed in which was a great
+trough or man-ger full of hay, where the poor folks
+who came to town fed the beasts on which they rode.</p>
+
+<p>So Jo-seph and Ma-ry made their home in this
+shed while they had to wait to have their names put
+down. And while they were there God gave to
+Ma-ry the son that he said she should have.</p>
+
+<p>And as she had no fine soft clothes to wrap the
+babe in, she took bands of cloth and put round him,
+and laid him on the straw in the man-ger.</p>
+
+<p>In those days rich men kept large flocks of sheep
+and goats, and had men watch them at night for
+fear that wild beasts would seize and kill them. The
+men who fed and took care of the sheep were called
+shep-herds.</p>
+
+<p>One night, as some shep-herds were on the hills
+where they kept watch of their flocks, the an-gel
+of the Lord came down to them. And a bright
+light shone round them so that they were in great fear.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 482px;">
+<img src="images/i_091.jpg" width="482" height="600" alt="nativity" />
+<span class="caption">THE NA-TIV-I-TY.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And the an-gel said to them, Fear not, for I
+bring you good news which shall give joy to all the
+land. For Christ, the Lord, is born for you this
+day, in the town of Beth-le-hem, and he will save
+you from your sins. And this is the way ye shall
+know him: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in bands
+of cloth and laid in a man-ger.</p>
+
+<p>When the an-gel had said this, there came, like
+a flash of light, a great host of an-gels who gave
+praise to God, and sang, Glo-ry be to God on high,
+and on earth, peace and good-will to men.</p>
+
+<p>When the an-gels had left them the shep-herds
+said, Let us go at once to Beth-le-hem and see
+these things of which the an-gel has told us.</p>
+
+<p>And they came with haste, and found Ma-ry and
+Jo-seph, and the babe that lay in the man-ger where
+the ox and ass used to feed. And when they had
+seen the child, they went out and told what the an-gel
+had said to them. And those who heard were
+filled with awe, for it was the first time that such a
+thing had been done in the world. And the strange
+news spread fast.</p>
+
+<p>Ma-ry told no one of the talk she had had with
+the an-gel, but thought much of these things, and
+took the best of care of the new-born babe. It did
+not seem as if it could be her own child.</p>
+
+<p>When the babe was eight days old, its fa-ther and
+mo-ther gave it the name of <span class="smcap">Je-sus</span>, as the an-gel had
+bid them. And they gave him to the Lord; that is,
+they vowed to the priest that they would bring up
+the child to serve God and to lead a good life. For<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[242]</a><br /><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[243]</a></span>
+though he was the son of God he was sent on earth
+to teach men what they ought to do.</p>
+
+<p>Now there was a
+man in Je-ru-sa-lem
+whose name was Sim-e-on.
+He was a good
+man, and did what
+was right, and for
+years he had been on
+the watch for one of
+whom the seers had
+told, and who was to
+save men from their
+sins.</p>
+
+<p>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 lords.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 330px;">
+<img src="images/i_092.jpg" width="330" height="500" alt="holding the baby" />
+<span class="caption">SIM-E-ON IN THE TEM-PLE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Sim-e-on was a
+priest in the house of
+God, and when Jo-seph
+and Ma-ry brought in the child Je-sus, he took
+it up in his arms and blest God, and said: Now,
+Lord, thy words have come true, and I can die in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[244]</a></span>
+peace, for I have seen him who is to be the light of
+the world, and to save men from their sins!</p>
+
+<p>Jo-seph and Ma-ry knew not what to make of
+this strange speech. And the priest blest them, and
+gave the child back to his mo-ther, and told her of
+some of the great things he would do when he grew
+up to be a man.</p>
+
+<p>And there was one An-na, who kept all the fasts,
+and served God night and day. She was four-score
+and four years old, and could fore-tell what was to
+take place, and her fame was great. And she came
+in-to the house of God while Sim-e-on yet spoke, and
+gave thanks to the Lord, and told of him who was
+to come to save the Jews, and to give them back
+their rights.</p>
+
+<p>Then Ma-ry and Jo-seph went back to their own
+home in Naz-a-reth. And the child grew, and was
+strong, and wise, and God blest him from day to day.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER II.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>THE STAR IN THE EAST.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">In</span> these days God spoke to men by strange
+signs, and wise ones were all the time on the watch
+for them. They had read in their old books of a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[245]</a></span>
+star that was to shine with a bright light, and each
+night they would raise their eyes to the sky, in hopes
+that they might see this sign that would bring hope
+and joy to the whole race of Jews. But years and
+years had gone by, and
+the Jews had no land of
+their own, and were as
+slaves to the Ce-sar of
+Rome. And He-rod,
+their king, was most
+harsh to them, for he
+had skill in the use of
+a sword, but not in the
+use of kind words, or
+good deeds.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 282px;">
+<img src="images/i_093.jpg" width="282" height="400" alt="the wise men" />
+<span class="caption">THE GUID-ING STAR.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>One night as a wise
+man lay on the roof of
+his house, with his gaze
+fixed on the great broad
+sky, he gave a start and
+cry of joy, for there
+shone a new star of such
+size that all the rest of
+the stars grew dim and small. And it was as if the
+sun had burst through a dark cloud, and brought
+the dawn some hours too soon, for the whole East
+was full of light from the long rays of this new star.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[246]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And the star seemed to move, and its rays to
+point all one way. And the wise men who saw it
+knew that the light had come for which they had
+looked and prayed so long, and they set out at once
+with the star to guide them, and they took rich gifts
+with them. Each night it shone in the sky, and led
+them on and on till they came to Je-ru-sa-lem. And
+they said to those they met there, Where is he that
+is born to be King of the Jews? for we have seen
+his star in the east, and have come to kneel down at
+his feet.</p>
+
+<p>When He-rod heard of these things, and that
+they spoke of Je-sus as King, he was in great fear
+lest he should lose his throne. So he sent for his
+chief priests and scribes that they might tell him
+where Christ should be born. And they read from
+their old books that it had been fore-told that he
+should be born in Beth-le-hem.</p>
+
+<p>Then He-rod sent for the wise men, and told
+them to go to Beth-le-hem, and search for the young
+child. And when ye find him, said he, bring me
+back word that I too may fall down at his feet and
+give him praise.</p>
+
+<p>But this he did not mean to do, for his plan was
+to put the child to death just as soon as he could
+find out where it was.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 453px;">
+<img src="images/i_094.jpg" width="453" height="600" alt="shepherds" />
+<span class="caption">THE SHEP-HERDS OF BETH-LE-HEM.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>When the king had ceased to speak, the wise
+men from the east left Je-ru-sa-lem, and went on
+their way to Beth-le-hem. And the star led them
+on and on, and was like the face of a friend. And
+a small, still voice seemed to say to them:&mdash;Come!&mdash;Come!&mdash;Come!
+And it drew them so that they
+would have gone to the ends of the earth. When
+troops are on the march, and through their ranks
+goes the cry of Halt! then each foot must stand
+still, and not a man moves from his place.</p>
+
+<p>And when the wise men came to Beth-le-hem,
+lo, the star that had led them stood still in the sky,
+right o'er the place where the young child was.
+And when they went in-to the house they saw the
+young child, with Ma-ry, his mo-ther, and they fell
+on their knees and bowed down to him as if he had
+been a king. And they brought him gifts of great
+worth, and gold and myrrh and rich gums and
+spice that can be found on-ly in those lands in the
+far East.</p>
+
+<p>And God spoke to them in a dream, and told
+them not to go back to He-rod, so they went home
+not by the same road they had come.</p>
+
+<p>When He-rod found that the wise men had not
+done as he bade them, he was in a great rage, and
+sent men to Beth-le-hem, and slew all the chil-dren
+there who were two years old or less, for then he
+was sure that Je-sus would be slain.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[248]</a><br /><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[249]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i_095.jpg" width="600" height="480" alt="wise men arrive" />
+<span class="caption">THE WISE MEN BRING-ING PRES-ENTS TO JE-SUS.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[250]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>But ere He-rod's men came, God spoke to Jo-seph
+in a dream, and said, Rise, and take thy wife
+and thy son, and flee in-to E-gypt, and stay there till
+I bring thee word;
+for He-rod will seek
+the young child to
+kill him.</p>
+
+<p>So Jo-seph did as
+the Lord told him,
+and took his wife and
+child out of Beth-le-hem
+by night, and
+went to dwell in the
+Land of E-gypt.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/i_096.jpg" width="290" height="400" alt="Mary and Jesus" />
+<span class="caption">THE FLIGHT IN-TO E-GYPT.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>But when He-rod
+was dead, God spoke
+to Jo-seph in a dream,
+and told him to take
+his wife and son and
+go back to the land
+of Is-ra-el, for the
+man was dead who
+sought to kill the young child. And Jo-seph did
+as the an-gel told him, and he and his wife and
+child came and dwelt in Naz-a-reth.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[251]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER III.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>THE BOYHOOD OF JESUS.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">It</span> was in the first month of the year that God
+brought the Jews out of E-gypt and led them through
+the Red Sea.</p>
+
+<p>And he made it a law that in the first month of
+each year they should all meet at one place, 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 taught. And this they were to do all the
+days of their life. And this feast, which was to last
+not quite two months, was known as the Feast of the
+Weeks. There were days they were to fast, and
+days they were to feast, and they were to call to
+mind that they were once slaves, and that God had
+set them free, and with glad hearts praise and bless
+his great name.</p>
+
+<p>The place where the Jews now met was at Je-ru-sa-lem,
+and Je-sus was twelve years old when he
+went up for the first time, with Jo-seph and Ma-ry,
+to keep the Feast of the Weeks.</p>
+
+<p>There was a great crowd there, and friends to
+meet and talk with, and it must have been a hard<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[252]</a></span>
+task to keep track of the young folks, who found so
+much to see and to hear that was new and strange.</p>
+
+<p>When the days of the feast were at an end, Jo-seph
+and Ma-ry set out for their home in Naz-a-reth.</p>
+
+<p>They had gone out with a band of friends and
+folks from the same town, and were to come back in
+the same way. It was not safe for them to go by
+them-selves, 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 way.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/i_097.jpg" width="500" height="325" alt="Nazareth" />
+<span class="caption">NAZ-A-RETH.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Some rode on mules, some on horse-back, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[253]</a></span>
+some had to walk all the way. Je-sus was not with
+Jo-seph and Ma-ry, but they thought he must be
+with some of the friends or kins-folk. But when at
+the end of a day's ride he came not near them, they
+sought for him in the groups of friends and kins-folk,
+where there were lads of his own age.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/i_098.jpg" width="500" height="347" alt="Boy Jesus at thje temple" />
+<span class="caption">JE-SUS WITH THE DOC-TORS IN THE TEM-PLE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And when they found him not, they went back
+to Je-ru-sa-lem, and sought for him with hearts full
+of grief, for they knew not what harm might have
+come to him.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[254]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>For three days they went from house to house,
+and through the lanes and streets, but could see no
+signs of the boy they had lost.</p>
+
+<p>At the end of that time they went in-to the
+house of God, it may have been to pray that their
+child might be found, and there a strange sight met
+their gaze.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus sat in the midst of the wise men, whose
+place it was to teach and to preach to those who
+came up to the feasts, and the old men bent their
+heads to hear what the young lad had to say. For
+it was the first time they had met with one so young
+in years who was so wise in speech, and they felt
+in their hearts that he must have been taught
+of God.</p>
+
+<p>When Jo-seph and Ma-ry saw Je-sus they were
+struck dumb, and could do naught but stare, as if it
+was a scene in a dream. Then Ma-ry said, My
+son, why didst thou vex us thus? we have sought for
+thee with sad hearts.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, Why did ye look for me? Do ye
+not know that I must do the work that my fa-ther
+has set me to do?</p>
+
+<p>Jo-seph and Ma-ry did not know what he meant
+by these words, or that God had sent Je-sus on earth
+to teach men how to read the word of God a-right,
+and how to save their souls from death.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[255]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Je-sus went back to Naz-a-reth with Jo-seph and
+Ma-ry, and was a good son to them. And he grew
+wise and tall, and was blest of God, and won the
+hearts of all who were near him, for they saw in
+him much to love.</p>
+
+<p>It was not known that he was the Son of God,
+and he made friends by his own sweet ways, for he
+was a poor boy.</p>
+
+<p>Naught was heard or known of Je-sus for some
+years, and we are led to think that he was taught
+how to use the axe, and saw, and plane, and to work
+at the same trade his fa-ther did. This gave him a
+chance to see how folks lived, and to use his eyes
+and ears as he went from house to house, so that
+when he went forth to teach he could tell them of
+their sins, and show them how vile they were.</p>
+
+<p>And this part of the life of Je-sus&mdash;of which not a
+word is told in the New Test-a-ment&mdash;is to teach us
+to stay in the place where God has put us, and to do
+our work there in the best way we know how.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus was at school then, just as boys and girls
+in these days go to school, and strive to grow wise
+and to fit them-selves for the work they are to do in
+the world. And though he was to be a king he did
+not put on airs, or sit and fold his hands and bid
+those that were near wait on him and be at his beck
+and call. No! he was born and brought up with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[256]</a></span>
+poor folks, to teach us that Je-sus is more at home
+with the poor than he is with the rich; and to be
+Christ-like we must seek to please God, to do his
+will, to put down pride, and keep sin out of our
+hearts.</p><hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER IV.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">You</span> have been told that John went out in-to the
+woods and waste lands when quite a young man.
+He fed on lo-custs and wild hon-ey, and his clothes
+were made of the skin of the cam-el, with the long
+rough hair on the out-side.</p>
+
+<p>The time had now come for him to go out in the
+world to tell of Je-sus, and to bid men give up their
+sins and walk in the right path.</p>
+
+<p>And he went to a place near the Jor-dan and
+crowds came there to hear him. And he told them
+that he had been sent to warn them to flee from the
+wrath to come. 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 faith.
+He told them that each one was to be like a tree,
+and to stand in his place and bring forth fruit, and
+serve God in the best way that he could. And<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[258]</a></span>
+each tree, said John, which brings not forth good
+fruit is cut down and cast in-to the fire. He told
+them they must be good and kind to each oth-er, and
+must give food and clothes to those who were in need
+of such things. They must not tell lies, nor steal, nor
+be vain and proud, but they must show by the way
+they lived that they loved God and were glad to do
+his will.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 474px;">
+<img src="images/i_099.jpg" width="474" height="600" alt="The Baptist" />
+<span class="caption">JOHN THE BAP-TIST.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And when those who heard him felt a great hate
+for sin, and a strong wish to lead good lives, and
+to be saved from the wrath of God, they spoke to
+John and he led them down to the Jor-dan and they
+were bap-tiz-ed in the stream.</p>
+
+<p>Now wa-ter will wash the stains from our clothes,
+and cleanse our skin, but it will not wash our sins
+away. To do this we must have Christ in our hearts.
+Some of those who heard John talk thought that he
+might be the Christ who was to come, and of whom
+the proph-ets had fore-told since the days of Mos-es.
+Some were quite sure of it; but oth-ers shook their
+heads, for they had made up their minds that he who
+was to come and rule o-ver them would be dressed like
+a king, and not in such plain clothes as John wore.</p>
+
+<p>John heard their words, or guessed their thoughts,
+and he said to these Jews, I in-deed bap-tize you with
+wa-ter, but he who is to come af-fer me, and who is
+great-er than I, will bap-tize you with fire.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[259]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>That meant that Je-sus would be in their hearts
+like a fire, to burn up all that was bad, as they burnt
+the chaff that was blown loose from the wheat.</p>
+
+<p>Then Je-sus came from his home in Naz-a-reth
+to have John bap-tize him in Jor-dan's stream. But
+John would not. He said there was more need that
+Je-sus should bap-tize him. He felt that there was
+need to have his own sins washed a-way, but Je-sus
+had no sins. So why dost thou come to me? said John.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus had come on the earth as a man to do
+God's will, and to teach man-kind how to walk in
+the right path and keep their hearts free from sin.
+And he told John, that all these things would be
+made plain to him some day, and it was right that
+he should bap-tize him.</p>
+
+<p>So John went with Je-sus in-to the wa-ter, and
+he bap-tized Je-sus in the wa-ter. And Je-sus was
+pray-ing to his Fa-ther in heav-en.</p>
+
+<p>And as Je-sus went up out of the wa-ter, lo,
+there came a great light in the sky, that took the
+form of a dove, and it came down and seemed to
+rest on him. And God's voice spoke out of the sky,
+and said: This is my dear Son, with whom I am
+well pleased.</p>
+
+<p>Then Je-sus went out in-to the waste lands, and
+was there with no one near him for more than a
+month. In all that time he ate no food, but spent<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[260]</a></span>
+the hours in talks with God. At last he felt weak
+and faint, and left the waste lands to go in search of
+some-thing to eat.</p>
+
+<p>Now there is a fiend in this world, as we all
+know, who has a black heart, and can take on all
+sorts of shapes. He came to Eve in the form of a
+snake, and to Sam-son with a fair face. He tempts
+those to do wrong who have set out to do right, and
+we have to be on our guard all the time, and to
+watch and pray that we may be kept safe from him.</p>
+
+<p>When this fiend saw Je-sus on his way to give
+new hearts to men, and to make them good and
+pure, he thought he would try and put a stop to
+such work. So he went out to tempt Je-sus, with
+the same smooth voice in which he spoke to Eve.</p>
+
+<p>And he came to him and said, If thou be the
+Son of God change those stones in-to bread, so that
+thou canst eat now that thou hast need of food.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus knew why Sa-tan had come, and he told
+him that men should take more pains to do God's
+will than to get bread to eat. Next Sa-tan took Je-sus
+to Je-ru-sa-lem, and up to a high place where the
+house of God was built. And he said to him, If
+thou be the Son of God, throw thy-self down; for it
+is said, he shall give his an-gels charge to keep thee
+in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their
+hands lest thou dash a-gainst a stone.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[261]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 498px;">
+<img src="images/i_100.jpg" width="498" height="600" alt="Temptation" />
+<span class="caption">THE TEMPT-A-TION.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[262]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Je-sus told him that it was not right to go where
+it was not safe, just to try if God would keep us from
+harm.</p>
+
+<p>Then Sa-tan took Je-sus up on a high mount,
+from whence could be seen all the large towns in the
+land, and all their great wealth. And he said to
+him, All these will I give thee for thine own if thou
+wilt kneel down and wor-ship me.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to him, Go from me, Sa-tan, for it is
+set down in God's book, Thou shalt wor-ship the
+Lord thy God, and him a-lone shalt thou serve.</p>
+
+<p>When Sa-tan found that Je-sus paid no heed to
+his words, he left him, and an-gels came to wait on
+the Son of God.</p>
+
+<p>In a short time Je-sus went back to the Jor-dan
+where John was, and when John saw him, he said,
+Be-hold the Lamb of God!</p>
+
+<p>He spoke of Je-sus as the Lamb of God, for he
+was to be laid on the cross for the sins of men, as
+the lamb was in those days laid on the al-tar.</p>
+
+<p>Then Je-sus set out to preach and to turn men
+from their sins. And he went to Gal-i-lee. And
+one day as he walked by the sea-shore he saw two
+men cast their net in-to the sea. Their names were
+An-drew and Pe-ter. Je-sus said to them, Come
+with me. And they left their nets at once, that
+they might be near him and learn of him.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[263]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 369px;">
+<img src="images/i_101.jpg" width="369" height="500" alt="At the wedding" />
+<span class="caption">THE MAR-RIAGE IN CA-NA.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The next day he saw two men whose names
+were James and John in a boat with their fa-ther.
+Their nets had
+broke, and they
+were in haste to
+mend them so
+that they could
+take in a large
+haul of fish. But
+Je-sus spoke to
+James and John,
+and they left the
+boat at once, and
+went with him
+that he might
+teach them.</p>
+
+<p>The next day
+Je-sus spoke to
+Phil-ip and Na-than-i-el,
+and
+they left their
+homes and went
+with him.</p>
+
+
+<p>When Je-sus
+came to the town of Ca-na he found quite a crowd
+there, for a wed-ding was to take place, and he and
+his mo-ther had been bid to the feast. There was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[264]</a></span>
+food to eat and wine to drink, but ere the feast was
+at an end the wine was all gone. And when Ma-ry
+knew of it she said to Je-sus, They have no wine.
+And she bade those who were there to serve the
+guests to do just as Je-sus told them.</p>
+
+<p>Now there were in the house six large stone jars
+such as the Jews kept to hold wa-ter. Je-sus said
+to the men, Fill the jars with wa-ter. And they
+filled them to the brim. And he said to them, Take
+some out now and bear it to the chief guest of the
+feast. And they did so; and the wa-ter was changed
+in-to wine.</p>
+
+<p>The chief guest did not know what Je-sus had
+done; but when he had drunk some of the wine he
+sent for the bride-groom and said to him, As a rule,
+those who give a feast set out the good wine first,
+and when the guests have had all they care for they
+bring out that which is worse. But thou hast kept
+the good wine till now.</p>
+
+<p>This was the first great sign Je-sus gave of the
+pow-er he had from on high. And it was proof to
+those whose hearts were with him that he was the
+true Son of God.</p>
+
+<p>The time of the Feast of Weeks was at hand,
+and Je-sus went up to Je-ru-sa-lem to keep it. And in
+one of the courts were men who had brought their
+wares to the house of God to sell them to the Jews<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[265]</a></span>
+when they came up to the feast. When Je-sus came
+to the place where these men were, the sight did
+not please him.
+And Je-sus
+made a scourge,
+or whip of small
+cords, and drove
+them all out,
+with their flocks
+and their herds.
+And he poured
+their gold and
+sil-ver on the
+ground, and
+said to those
+who sold doves,
+Take them a-way;
+make not
+the house of
+God a place to
+buy and sell in.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 367px;">
+<img src="images/i_102.jpg" width="367" height="500" alt="Clearing the temple" />
+<span class="caption">DRIV-ING THE SELL-ERS FROM THE TEM-PLE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And while
+he was at the
+feast crowds
+were drawn to him, and had faith in him when they
+saw what won-ders he could do. Nic-o-de-mus, one
+of the chief men of the Jews, came to Je-sus in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[266]</a></span>
+night, and said to him, We know that God has sent
+thee to teach us what is right, for no man could do
+these won-ders if God were not with him.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus told him that he must have a new heart
+or he could not be a child of God.</p>
+
+<p>He-rod, who slew the babes of Beth-le-hem, was
+dead, but his son He-rod ruled in that part of Gal-i-lee,
+and he was a bad man. He took his broth-er's
+wife from him and made her his own wife. Her
+name was He-ro-di-as. When John the Bap-tist
+told He-rod this was not right, he would have put
+him to death if he had dared. But he had heard
+him preach, and knew that he was a good man. Yet
+to please He-ro-di-as He-rod had seized John, and
+bound him, and shut him up in jail.</p>
+
+<p>While John was in jail, He-rod, on his birth-day,
+made a great feast for the lords and chief men of
+Gal-i-lee. And a young girl, whose name was Sa-lo-me,
+came and danced in their midst. He-rod was
+so much pleased with her that he said, Ask of me
+what thou wilt, and thou shalt have it, though it
+were half of my realm.</p>
+
+<p>And Sa-lo-me went to He-ro-di-as&mdash;who was
+her mo-ther&mdash;and said, What shall I ask?</p>
+
+<p>And He-ro-di-as said to her, Ask the king to
+cut off the head of John the Bap-tist, and bring it
+to thee here in a large dish.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[267]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Sa-lo-me came back in haste to the king, and said,
+Give me, in a large dish, the head of John the Bap-tist.</p>
+
+<p>He-rod was grieved, but as he had sworn to give
+her what she asked for, and those who sat near had
+heard him, he felt bound to keep his word. So he
+sent one of his train-band, who cut off John's head
+in the jail, and brought it in a large dish to Sa-lo-me,
+and she gave it to her mo-ther.</p>
+
+<p>When the friends of John heard of it they came
+up and took his dead form and laid it in a tomb, and
+went and told Je-sus.</p><hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER V.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>THE WOMAN AT THE WELL&mdash;JESUS BY THE SEA.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">One</span> day Je-sus and his friends came to the town
+of Sy-char, near which was a well to which all the
+folks came to draw wa-ter. It was known as Ja-cob's
+Well. The sun was hot, and Je-sus, tired with
+his long walk, sat down by this well to rest, while
+his friends went to the town to buy food.</p>
+
+<p>A wo-man came from the town to draw wa-ter.
+She led a life of sin, and had no love for God in her
+heart. And Je-sus knew this, for he sees all our<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[268]</a></span>
+hearts, and knows all our thoughts, and all that we
+have done.</p>
+
+<p>And he spoke to the wo-man, and told her of the
+things she had
+done that did
+not please God.
+And she thought
+he was a seer,
+to whom God
+told things that
+were not known
+to most folks.
+And she said
+to Je-sus, I know
+that Christ is to
+come in-to the
+world, and when
+he comes he
+will tell us all
+things. Je-sus
+said to her, I
+that speak to
+thee am he.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 334px;">
+<img src="images/i_103.jpg" width="334" height="400" alt="Jesus at well" />
+<span class="caption">THE WO-MAN AT THE WELL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then the wo-man left her jar, and made haste
+back to the town, and said to her friends there, Come
+and see a man who told me all the things that ever
+I did. Is not this the Christ?</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[269]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And they went out and saw Je-sus, and bade him
+come in-to the town. And he went with them, and
+was there for three days. And they gave ear to the
+things he taught them. And they said to the wo-man,
+Now we have faith in him, not be-cause of
+the things thou didst tell us, but be-cause we have
+heard him our-selves, and know that he is the
+Christ whom God has sent down to us.</p>
+
+<p>From there he went once more to the town of
+Ca-na. And a rich man came from the town where
+he dwelt to ask Je-sus to come and heal his son, who
+was sick. And the rich man said to him, Come
+as quick as you can, lest my child should die.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to him, Go thy way, thy son is made
+well.</p>
+
+<p>The rich man knew that Je-sus would not say
+what was not true, and with a glad heart went back
+to his home. And as he drew near the house his
+slaves ran out to meet him, and said to him, Thy
+son is well.</p>
+
+<p>The rich man bade them tell him what time the
+change took place, and they told the hour that the
+fe-ver left the lad. And it was the same hour that
+Je-sus had said to the rich man, Thy son is well.
+And he and all those in his house felt in their hearts
+that Je-sus was the son of God.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 223px;">
+<img src="images/i_104.jpg" width="223" height="500" alt="scroll" />
+<span class="caption">CYL-IN-DER HOLD-ING THE PENT-A-TEUCH.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The Jews did not yet know how to print, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[270]</a></span>
+they had no books such as we have. They wrote
+with pen and ink on rolls of parch-ment, made from
+the skin of sheep and goats.</p>
+
+<p>These rolls were kept in
+the house of God, in a box or
+chest called an ark, and were
+brought out and read to those
+who came to the church on the
+Lord's day. The chief rolls,
+all the books of the Old Tes-ta-ment,
+were kept at Je-ru-sa-lem,
+but as all the Jews could
+not get there more than once a
+year, they had made rolls for
+their own use in each house
+of God.</p>
+
+
+<p>Je-sus came to Naz-a-reth
+where he had been brought
+up, and went in-to the church
+on the Lord's day and stood
+up to read. And he read
+from one of the old books
+where it was fore-told that one
+should come to bring good
+news to the poor, to cheer the sad, to give sight to
+the blind, and to heal the sick. Then he closed the
+roll and sat down. And the eyes of all in the church<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271">[271]</a></span>
+were on him. He said to them that all these words
+had come true, and that he was the Son of God, of
+whom the proph-et wrote. And they said, Is not
+this Jo-seph's son? How then can he claim to be
+the Son of God? And they were wroth with him,
+and led him out to a steep hill on which their town
+was built, that they might cast him down and kill
+him. But Je-sus got a-way from them, and they
+could do him no harm.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/i_105.jpg" width="500" height="352" alt="pages" />
+<span class="caption">TWO PA-GES of THE SAM-AR-I-TAN PENT-A-TEUCH.</span>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>He went on to Ca-per-na-um, and great crowds<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272">[272]</a></span>
+came there to hear him, and pushed so that there
+was scarce room for him to stand on the sea-shore.
+And he saw two boats close at hand, out of which
+the men had gone to mend their nets. And he
+went in one of the boats, which was Pe-ter's and told
+him to push it out from the land. And he sat
+down, and taught the crowd out of the boat.</p>
+
+<p>When he left off, he said to Pe-ter and An-drew,
+Sail out where the sea is deep, and let down your
+nets to catch fish.</p>
+
+<p>Pe-ter said, Mas-ter, we have been hard at work
+all the night, and not a fish have we caught; but,
+since thou dost bid me, I will let down the net.</p>
+
+<p>When they had done this, they caught such a large
+haul of fish that the net broke. Then they called to
+their friends in the boat by the shore, and bade them
+come to their aid. And they came, and there was
+more fish than the two boats could hold.</p>
+
+<p>When Pe-ter saw this he fell down at the feet of
+Je-sus, and said, I fear thee, for I am full of sin, O
+Lord. And those with him were spell-bound at sight
+of the fish they had caught.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus did this great won-der so that these men
+might see it and know that he was the Son of God;
+for they were to aid him in his work, and to go
+with him from place to place.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to Pe-ter, Fear not; from this time<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_274" id="Page_274">[274]</a></span>
+forth thou shalt catch men and not fish. He meant
+by this that Pe-ter was to preach, and to save men
+from sin, and from the nets that Sa-tan spreads. And
+he said to them all, Come with me. And they left
+their boats and their nets, and all that they had, and
+were with Je-sus till the end of his life on earth.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i_106.jpg" width="600" height="463" alt="catching fish" />
+<span class="caption">THE WON-DER-FUL DRAUGHT OF FISH-ES.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>On the Day of Rest, Je-sus went in-to the church
+and taught the folks there. And in their midst was
+a man who was not in his right mind, and it was as
+if he were torn by fiends, and he cried out to Je-sus,
+Let us a-lone. What have we to do with thee, thou
+Je-sus of Naz-a-reth? Art thou come to kill us? I
+know thee, that thou art the Son of God. Je-sus
+said to the fiends that were in the man, Be still, and
+come out of him. Then the fiends threw the man
+down, and cried with a loud voice, and came out of
+him. And all those in the church were struck with
+awe, and they said a-mong them-selves, What does
+this mean? for he speaks to the fiends so that they
+are forced to do his will!</p>
+
+<p>When they came out of the church Je-sus went
+to the house where Pe-ter and An-drew dwelt. And
+James and John were there. And Pe-ter's wife's
+mo-ther was sick of a fe-ver, and they told Je-sus of
+it and begged that he would heal her.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus took her by the hand, and bade the fe-ver
+come out of her. And she was made well at once,
+and rose from her bed, and took charge of her house.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_275" id="Page_275">[275]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>At the close of the day, when the sun had set,
+great crowds came to the house where Je-sus was,
+and brought
+those who were
+sick, and those
+who were not
+in their right
+minds, that he
+might cure
+them. And
+he made the
+sick well, and
+drove out the
+fiends, and
+would not let
+them speak.</p>
+
+<p>The next
+day Je-sus rose
+ere it was light
+and went out
+to a lone place
+to pray to God.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 386px;">
+<img src="images/i_107.jpg" width="386" height="500" alt="Peter's mother-in-law" />
+<span class="caption">PE-TER&#39;S WIFE&#39;S MO-THER.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>For though
+he was the
+Son of God, he had come to the earth in the form
+of a man, and had all the wants that man has. He
+had need of food and drink, and felt pain and grief<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276">[276]</a></span>
+just as we do. He had need of man's help in his
+work; and had need of God's help all the time.
+And he knelt to God, just as he wants us to do,
+and asked God to be near him and to give him
+more strength, and to help him to do his will.</p>
+
+<p>When Je-sus had gone, crowds came up to the
+house to seek him. And Pe-ter, and the three that
+were with him, went out to look for Je-sus. And
+when they found him they told him of the great
+crowd that sought him.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, Let us go to the next towns, that I
+may tell the good news there; for I was not sent to
+stay in one place.</p>
+
+<p>And he taught all through Gal-i-lee, and his
+fame spread, and great crowds went to hear him.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER VI.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>JESUS HEALS THE SICK, AND DOES GOOD WORKS ON
+THE DAY OF REST.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">A</span> man came to Je-sus and knelt down at his feet
+and said, Lord, if thou wilt thou canst make me
+clean. This man was a lep-er. He had white sores
+on his skin, and had to live by him-self or with those
+as bad off as him-self, and there was no cure for him<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277">[277]</a></span>
+but death. It was not safe to breathe the air near a
+lep-er, and so he was sent at once out of the town, as
+soon as his case was known.</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 278px;">
+<img src="images/i_108.jpg" width="278" height="400" alt="Jesus healing" />
+<span class="caption">CUR-ING THE MAN LAME WITH PAL-SY.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>This lep-er must
+have heard of Je-sus
+and the great works
+he had done, and
+the hope that had
+died out must have
+sprung up in his
+heart once more. If
+he could heal the
+sick, and make the
+lame walk, why could
+he not cure him, so
+that he would be fit
+to live with those he
+loved? At least he
+could ask; and oh!
+how great must have
+been his faith when
+he fell down at the
+feet of Je-sus and
+cried out, Lord, if <i>thou</i> wilt <i>thou</i> canst make me clean.</p>
+
+
+<p>Je-sus put out his hand and touched the man,
+and said, I will: be thou clean.</p>
+
+<p>And at once the sores left the man and his skin<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278">[278]</a></span>
+was white and smooth. Then Je-sus sent him off,
+and bade him tell no man who had made him well,
+but to go to the priest and do as Mo-ses bid all those
+do who had been lep-ers and were cured.</p>
+
+<p>But the man was so full of joy that he could not
+keep it to him-self, and he went out and told what
+Je-sus had done for him.</p>
+
+<p>Now there were some Jews who were known as
+Scribes and Phar-i-sees. They made out that no
+one else was quite as good as they were. They knew
+all the laws of Mo-ses by heart, and they were strict
+to see that no Jews broke those laws. A Scribe is
+one who writes.</p>
+
+<p>These Scribes and Phar-i-sees were thought to be
+wise and good men, for they would fast and pray for
+a long while at a time, and look as though they
+thought them-selves too pure for earth.</p>
+
+<p>But their hearts were bad and full of sin, and
+when Je-sus told them they must give up their sins
+and lead the right kind of lives, they were wroth with
+him, and tried to make all the rest of the Jews hate
+him as much as they did.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus went down to Ca-per-na-um, and when it
+was known that he was in the town great crowds
+came to the house where he was to hear him preach.</p>
+
+<p>Now there was a man who had been in bed for a
+long time, and could not move hand or foot. He<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_279" id="Page_279">[279]</a></span>
+had heard of the fame of Je-sus, and it was the wish
+of his heart to get near him that he might heal him
+with a touch. But Je-sus was a long way off, and the
+poor sick man could not walk one step. But he had
+kind friends, and they thought of a plan by which he
+could be brought near to Je-sus, that he might at
+least hear him preach.</p>
+
+<p>So they took him on his bed and bore him to the
+town; but when they came to the house where Je-sus
+was, the crowd was so great that there was no chance
+to get near him. What were they to do?</p>
+
+<p>Now the house was low and had a flat roof, with
+a wall round it, so that those who dwelt there could
+walk or sleep on it and have no fear that they would
+fall off. All the rooms down stairs led out in-to a
+court, which had a roof that could be slid off when it
+did not rain, or there was need of fresh air.</p>
+
+<p>So the friends of the lame man drew the bed up on
+the house-top with him in it, and brought him to the
+space in the roof, through which they could see Je-sus
+and the crowds round him. And they let the man
+down on his bed in the midst of the crowd, which
+had to make way for him.</p>
+
+<p>When Je-sus saw what great faith they had, he
+spoke to the sick man, and said, Thy sins are for-giv-en
+thee. Some of the Scribes and Phar-i-sees
+who sat near said, but not out loud, Who is this that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_280" id="Page_280">[280]</a></span>
+dares speak in this way? None but God can for-give
+sins.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus knew their thoughts, and he said to them,
+Why think ye these things? Which could be said
+with the most ease, Thy sins be for-giv-en thee, or
+Rise up and walk?</p>
+
+<p>But to show you that I have pow-er to for-give
+sins, I will make him well.</p>
+
+<p>So he said to the sick man, Rise, take up thy
+bed, and go to thy house.</p>
+
+<p>And the man rose and stood on his feet, and took
+up the bed on which he had lain and went out and
+gave praise and thanks to God.</p>
+
+<p>And those who saw him were in a maze and said,
+We have seen strange things to-day.</p>
+
+<p>Now the Jews, as you know, were slaves of the
+Ce-sar of Rome, and to keep their peace with him they
+had to pay a tax. And the men to whom they paid
+the tax were known as pub-li-cans. Some of them
+were harsh and stern, and the Jews could not but
+hate them. But all were not so. And as Je-sus
+went by he saw one of these pub-li-cans with his gold
+and sil-ver close at hand. His name was Matth-ew.
+Je-sus spoke to him, and said, Come with me.</p>
+
+<p>And Matth-ew left all, and went with Je-sus, and
+from that time did all that he could to spread the
+good news, and to serve the Lord Christ.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_281" id="Page_281">[281]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 296px;">
+<img src="images/i_109.jpg" width="296" height="400" alt="Bethesda" />
+<span class="caption">THE POOL OF BE-THES-DA.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Af-ter this there was a feast of the Jews, and Je-sus
+went up to Je-ru-sa-lem. Now there was at Je-ru-sa-lem
+a pool, which was known as the Pool of Be-thes-da.
+And there
+were five courts, or
+door-ways, that led
+down to the pool.
+And in these courts
+lay a great crowd of
+folks who were sick,
+or blind, or lame.</p>
+
+<p>For this was the
+time of the year when
+an an-gel came to
+stir the pool. And
+it was thought that
+the one who went in-to
+the pool the first,
+when the an-gel had
+made it fresh and
+sweet, would be
+cured of all the ails
+that he might have.</p>
+
+
+<p>And a man was there who had been sick for
+most two-score years. Je-sus saw him, and knew
+that he had been sick for a long time, and it made
+him sad to think of it. So he said to the man,
+Wilt thou be made well?</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[282]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The man said, I have no one to help me in-to the
+pool, for when I try to get down to it, some one steps
+in a-head of me and I am too late.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to him, Rise, take up thy bed and
+walk.</p>
+
+<p>And at once the man was made well, and took
+up his bed, and walked.</p>
+
+<p>Now it was the Day of Rest. And the Jews,
+who were quick to find fault with those who broke
+the laws, said to the man when he came their way,
+It is not right for thee to move thy bed on this day.</p>
+
+<p>He said to them, he that made me well told me
+to take up my bed and walk.</p>
+
+<p>They said to him, Who was it told thee that?</p>
+
+<p>And the man did not know, and could not point
+Je-sus out to them, the crowd was so great.</p>
+
+<p>But ere the feast was at an end Je-sus met the
+man He had cured and said to him, Now thou art
+well, sin no more lest a worse thing come to thee.</p>
+
+<p>Then the man went out and told the Jews that
+it was Je-sus who had cured him on the Day of Rest.
+And for this the Jews sought to kill Je-sus. But he
+told them that the works he did were proof that
+God had sent him, and that he was the one of
+whom the seers had told in the days that were past,
+and of whom Mo-ses wrote.</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 398px;">
+<img src="images/i_110.jpg" width="398" height="500" alt="Picking grain on sabbath" />
+<span class="caption">IN THE CORN-FIELDS.</span>
+</div>
+<p>He said that the time was near at hand when the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[283]</a></span>
+dead should hear the voice of the Son of God, and
+those who were in their graves should come forth.
+Then he would judge them. Those who had done
+good would be
+blest, for God
+would give
+them a home
+with him in the
+sky; but those
+who had done
+ill, and died in
+their sins, would
+not meet the
+smile of God,
+nor have a place
+near his throne.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said if
+the love of God
+was in their
+hearts they
+would trust
+him whom God
+had sent, and
+feel that he
+had come to do them good, and to save their souls
+from death.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>Je-sus and his five friends, An-drew, Pe-ter,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_284" id="Page_284">[284]</a></span>
+James, John, and Matth-ew, went out on the next
+Day of Rest, and their walk led them through a field
+of corn. And as the men had need of food, Je-sus
+told them to pluck
+and eat the ears of
+corn. And they
+did so.</p>
+
+<p>In the East they
+gave the name of
+corn to all kinds of
+grain.</p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 333px;">
+<img src="images/i_111.jpg" width="333" height="450" alt="withered hand" />
+<span class="caption">THE WITH-ER-ED HAND.</span>
+</div>
+<p>When the Phar-i-sees
+saw it they
+found fault, and Je-sus
+told them that
+he was the best
+judge of what was
+right to do on that
+day; for he was
+Lord of the Day of
+Rest.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>In the course of
+a few weeks he went
+in-to a church and
+taught on the Lord's day. And a man was there
+whose hand was so drawn up that he could not stretch
+it out or do aught with it. And the Phar-i-sees<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_285" id="Page_285">[285]</a></span>
+kept a close watch on Je-sus to see if he would heal
+the man on that day, so that they might find fault
+with them.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus knew their thoughts, and he said to the
+man with the lame hand, Rise up, and stand where
+all can see you. And the man rose, and stood forth.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/i_112.jpg" width="500" height="315" alt="Jerusalem" />
+<span class="caption">JER-U-SA-LEM.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to them, I will ask you one thing:
+Is it right to do good or to do ill on the Day of Rest?
+to take life or to save it? And he stood and looked
+at all those that were in the place. Then he said to
+the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he did so, and
+it was well and strong.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_286" id="Page_286">[286]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>This made the Phar-i-sees hate Je-sus, so that
+they went out of the church and sought for some way
+to put him to death. When he knew of it he left
+the place, and came down to the sea of Gal-i-lee.
+And crowds came to him from the land of Ju-dah
+and from large towns that were far off, to see the
+great works that he did. And the sick crept near
+so that they could touch him, and he made them
+all well.</p><hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER VII.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Je-sus</span> left the crowd, and went to a lone place to
+pray to God. And he spent the night there. The
+next morn he chose twelve men, that he might send
+them out to preach, and to heal those that were sick,
+and to cast out dev-ils. Their names were Pe-ter,
+An-drew, James and John, the sons of Zeb-e-dee,
+Phil-ip, Bar-thol-o-mew, Thom-as and Matth-ew,
+James and Leb-be-us, Si-mon and Ju-das Is-ca-ri-ot.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 469px;">
+<img src="images/i_113.jpg" width="469" height="600" alt="sermon" />
+<span class="caption">THE SER-MON ON THE MOUNT.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And the crowd was so great that Je-sus went up
+on a hill, and the twelve went with him and he
+taught them there. He told them that those who
+were in a high state of joy, with not a care to vex
+them, were called blest. And he said, not in these
+words, but in words that meant the same:</p>
+
+<p>Blest are the poor in spirit, for God is with them.</p>
+
+<p>By poor in spirit he meant those who did not
+think too much of them-selves, who were not vain
+nor proud, but rich in love to God. And he would
+be with them, and bless them all their lives.</p>
+
+<p>Blest are those that mourn, for their tears shall
+be dried.</p>
+
+<p>To mourn is to weep, and to grieve. Je-sus
+meant that those who wept for their sins should shed
+no more tears, for Christ had come to save them, and
+the good news should make them glad.</p>
+
+<p>Blest are the meek, for the whole earth shall be
+theirs.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus meant by this that those who were fond of
+peace, and did not love strife, might dwell where
+they chose, and would be blest in this world and the
+world to come.</p>
+
+<p>Blest are those who hun-ger and thirst for that
+which is good, for they shall be filled.</p>
+
+<p>This meant that those who sought to do right
+and to grow in grace had but to pray to God, and he
+would give them all the strength they might need
+from day to day.</p>
+
+<p>Blest are those who are kind and good, for the
+Lord will be kind to them in their hour of need.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_288" id="Page_288">[288]</a><br /><a name="Page_289" id="Page_289">[289]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Blest are those who are pure in heart, for they
+shall see God.</p>
+
+<p>Those who are pure in heart will be fond of good
+works, and will lead good lives, and God will not
+turn his face from them.</p>
+
+<p>Blest are the peace-ma-kers&mdash;those who try to
+keep the peace and to put an end to strife&mdash;for they
+shall be called the chil-dren of God.</p>
+
+<p>Blest are those who are ill-used for my sake, for
+the more the world hates them the more will God
+love them.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus told them that when men said hard things
+of them for his sake, and called them vile, and
+were harsh with them and full of spite, they were
+not to grieve but to be glad. 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 Christ.</p>
+
+<p>Salt is good, and gives a taste to our food.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus told them they were to salt the earth.
+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 salt.</p>
+
+<p>He told them, too, that they must let their light
+shine; he meant that they should let it be seen and
+known that they loved God, and tried to do his
+will. They were not to hide it from men, but to do
+such good works, in Christ's name, that those who<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[290]</a></span>
+did not love or care for him might be drawn to Je-sus&mdash;the
+light of the world.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said that if we do as we ought to do our-selves,
+and teach men to keep all God's laws, we
+shall be called great in the place where God dwells.
+But if, like the Scribes and Phar-i-sees, we teach
+what is right and do what is wrong, we shall not see
+God's face, or live with him on high.</p>
+
+<p>He said, you have been taught not to kill; and
+that he who puts one to death will be brought to the
+judge, and made to suf-fer for the crime. But I say
+to you that it is a sin to hate those who have done
+you no harm, and God will pun-ish you for it.</p>
+
+<p>Then he said that when they went to church to
+wor-ship God they must try and think if they had
+done wrong, had been harsh, or had said what was
+not true. And they were to go at once and do right
+to those whom they hurt in this way, for God did not
+care to have them bow down to him if their hearts
+were full of sins they were not sor-ry for.</p>
+
+<p>We must be good and pure, Je-sus says, in all
+that we say and do: we must do no harm to those
+who harm us, but must be kind and good to them,
+and pray for them, and love them.</p>
+
+<p>Bless those that curse you, and do good to those
+that hate you. This is a hard task, and none but
+those who have the love of Christ in their hearts can<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[291]</a></span>
+do it. But if we pray for strength, the strength is
+sure to come, and love takes the place of hate.</p>
+
+<p>Some folks when they do good deeds like to
+make a great show and noise, that they may be seen
+of men, and have much praise from them.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus told the Twelve that they were to do right,
+not to please men but to please God. When they
+gave to the poor they were not to tell of it; and
+when they prayed they were not to choose a place
+where they could be seen of men&mdash;just to show how
+good they were&mdash;but were to go to their room and
+shut the door, that no one but God could hear them.
+Then God would give them what they asked for.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus taught them how to pray, and what words
+to use; and these words each child ought to learn by
+heart and use at least twice a day:</p>
+
+<p>"Our Fa-ther which art in heav-en, Hal-low-ed
+be thy name. Thy King-dom come. Thy will be
+done on earth as <i>it is</i> in heav-en. Give us this day
+our dai-ly bread. And for-give us our debts, as we
+for-give our debt-ors. And lead us not in-to tempt-a-tion,
+but del-iv-er us from e-vil: For thine is the
+King-dom, and the pow-er, and the glo-ry, for ever.
+<i>A-men.</i>"</p>
+
+<p>When they should fast they were not to look sad
+as those did whose wish it was that men should see
+them fast, but they were to hold up their heads and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[292]</a></span>
+wear a look of cheer that no one but God should
+know it. And God would bless them for it.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said we must not want to be rich or to lay
+up wealth in this world, for when we die we can-not
+take it with us. But we should give our hearts
+to thoughts of God, and try to live so that we can
+share his home, where we shall have more things to
+please us than all the gold in the world can buy.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said that no man could serve God and
+serve Sa-tan too. We serve God when we do right;
+and we serve Sa-tan when we do wrong.</p>
+
+<p>So we can-not do the will of both, and must
+choose which one we will serve.</p>
+
+<p>He told the Twelve not to judge folks; he meant
+that they must take care how they found fault, and
+blamed them. For they may not have done wrong,
+or if they did they may have meant no harm. We
+can-not see men's hearts, or know how they felt at
+the time they did the deed. But God knows all, and
+may not blame them as much as we do. Je-sus said
+that we should strive to do right our-selves, and then
+we should see with clear eyes who did wrong, and
+have a right to tell them of their faults.</p>
+
+<p>He said, that what we want men to do to us we
+must do to them. If we want them to be kind and
+good and to treat us well, we must do the same by
+them.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_293" id="Page_293">[293]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 386px;">
+<img src="images/i_114.jpg" width="386" height="500" alt="the tree not bearing fruit" />
+<span class="caption">THE UN-FRUIT-FUL TREE.</span>
+</div>
+<p>He said, Strive to go in at the strait, or nar-row
+gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that
+leads to death.
+He meant that
+the good and
+the bad ways are
+like two gates
+in our path, for
+us to choose
+which one we
+will go through.</p>
+
+<p>The good
+way is small and
+hard to find,
+and we have
+to search for it
+with great care.
+But the path is
+one that leads
+to life and joy.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>The bad
+way is like a
+broad gate that
+stands o-pen
+and in plain sight. This wide gate leads down to
+hell, and crowds and crowds go that way, while but
+few are found in the good way that leads to bliss.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_294" id="Page_294">[294]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said that at the last day some would call
+him Lord, Lord, and say they had served him and
+taught as he did. But he would say that he did not
+know them, for they had bad hearts, and had led
+lives of sin, and were not fit to dwell with the good
+and pure in the home on high, where all is love.</p>
+
+<p>He said that men were like trees. Good trees
+brought forth good fruit; but a bad tree could not
+bring forth good fruit. And men were to be known
+by their works, just as a tree was known by its fruits.</p>
+
+<p>Then he spoke of two men, each of whom built
+a house. One chose to build on a rock. And the
+rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew
+and beat on that house, but it stood firm and the
+storm did it no harm.</p>
+
+<p>But one of the men built his house on the sand.
+And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the
+winds blew and beat on that house, and it fell with a
+great crash, and was swept out of sight.</p>
+
+<p>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 rock. Christ is our Rock. He
+stands firm. No storms can move him. If we
+cling to him he will save us.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said that those who heard his words and
+did not do as he taught them, were like the man who
+built his house on the sand. When the storm came<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[295]</a></span>
+on the last day, when God would judge the world,
+they would be swept out of sight. And oh! what a
+sad, sad day that will be for all those who have led
+bad lives, and done not the least thing to please God,
+who took care of them and gave them all they had.</p>
+
+<p>We must strive to be good all the time, and to
+love Je-sus, so that he will be near us, and will take
+us home to live with him when we die.</p><hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER VIII.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>GOOD WORDS AND GOOD WORKS.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">There</span> was at Ca-per-na-um a chief who had
+charge of five score Ro-man troops. And one of his
+men, who was dear to him, was so sick that he was
+like to die. When the chief heard that Je-sus was
+there he sent some of his friends down to ask him to
+make the sick man well. Those who brought the
+word to Je-sus were Jews, and they spoke a good
+word for the chief, who had been kind to them.</p>
+
+<p>Then Je-sus went with them. 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-self,
+for he was not good e-nough. And now he sent
+word that he was not good e-nough for Je-sus to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_296" id="Page_296">[296]</a></span>
+come in-to his house. But if Je-sus would speak the
+word, he was sure that the sick man would get well.</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 277px;">
+<img src="images/i_115.jpg" width="277" height="400" alt="centurion and Jesus" />
+<span class="caption">CHRIST AND THE CEN-TU-RI-ON.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>For I stand at the head of my troops, said the
+chief, and say to this
+one, Go, and he goes;
+and to that one, Come,
+and he comes; and to
+a third, Do this, and he
+does it.</p>
+
+<p>And he knew that
+if he could do this Je-sus
+could do more, and
+bid all the ills leave the
+sick man at the sound
+of his voice.</p>
+
+
+<p>When Je-sus heard
+these words he was a-mazed,
+and said to
+those who were with
+him, I have found no
+one who has such faith
+in me as this Ro-man.
+And I tell you that at
+the last day those who have had faith in me shall
+come from all lands, and have a place near God's
+throne; while the Jews, who will not put their trust
+in me, will be shut out.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_297" id="Page_297">[297]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 351px;">
+<img src="images/i_116.jpg" width="351" height="500" alt="reviving widow's son" />
+<span class="caption">THE WID-OW&#39;S SON BROUGHT TO LIFE.</span>
+</div>
+<p>And when the friends of the chief went back they
+found the sick man made well.</p>
+
+<p>The next day
+Je-sus went to
+the town of
+Nain. And a
+great crowd went
+with him. And
+as they came near
+the gate of the
+town they saw
+a dead man
+brought out to
+be borne to his
+grave. He was
+all the son his
+mo-ther had, and
+her friends stood
+near her and
+wept with her.</p>
+
+<p>When Je-sus
+saw her grief his
+heart was sad, and
+he said, Weep not.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>And he came up to the bier on which the dead
+lay, and those who bore it stood still. Then Je-sus
+said, Young man, I say to thee a-rise.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_298" id="Page_298">[298]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And he that was dead sat up and spoke. And
+Je-sus gave him to his mo-ther. And a great fear
+came on all who saw it, and they gave praise to God,
+and said that a great proph-et had been raised up in
+their midst.</p>
+
+<p>In old times those who lived in the East did
+not wear shoes such as we do. They wore light
+soles, or san-dals, which were bound on their feet
+with straps, and thrown off as soon as they came in-to
+the house. Then wa-ter was brought for them to
+wash their feet.</p>
+
+<p>Much oil was used in those lands, and is to this
+day. It was put on the hair to keep it moist, and
+on the skin to make it soft and smooth. This oil,
+when some-what hard, was called oint-ment, and was
+kept in a box, and had a nice smell.</p>
+
+<p>Now a Phar-i-see, whose name was Si-mon,
+asked Je-sus to his house. And Je-sus went there,
+and they sat down to eat. And a wo-man of the
+town, who had led a life of sin, when she heard that
+Je-sus was there, came in with a box of oint-ment and
+bowed down at his feet.</p>
+
+<p>She was full of shame, for her sins had been great,
+and she had come to Je-sus to ask him to for-give her
+and help her to lead a new life.</p>
+
+<p>She wept, and washed the feet of Je-sus with her
+tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_299" id="Page_299">[299]</a></span>
+And she kissed his feet, and rubbed them with the
+oint-ment she had brought, and which had cost her
+a high price.</p>
+
+<p>When the Phar-i-see saw it he said to him-self,
+If this man had come from God he would know
+what kind of a
+wo-man this is,
+and would send
+her out of his
+sight.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus, who
+knew his every
+thought, said to
+him, Si-mon, I
+have some-thing
+to say to
+thee.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i_117.jpg" width="300" height="239" alt="washing hands" />
+<span class="caption">WASH-ING HANDS IN THE EAST.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And he said,
+My lord, say on.</p>
+
+<p>Then Je-sus said, Two men were in debt to a
+rich man. One owed him a great deal, while the
+oth-er owed him but a small sum. But they were
+both so poor that they could not pay him, and he
+told them to think no more of the debt, for it would
+be the same as if they had paid all they owed. Tell
+me now which one of these would love him the
+most.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[300]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The Phar-i-see said, I should think that he to
+whom he for-gave the most.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to him, That is true.</p>
+
+<p>And he turned to the wo-man and said to Si-mon,
+See'st thou this wo-man? I came to thy house,
+and thou didst bring me no wa-ter to wash my feet,
+but she hath washed my feet with her tears and
+wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou didst
+give me no kiss, but this wo-man, since the time I
+came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet. My head
+with oil thou didst not an-oint, but she has poured
+her oint-ment on my feet. So I say to thee that her
+sins, though so great, will be all wiped out, for she
+has loved me much.</p>
+
+<p>And he said to the wo-man, Thy faith has saved
+thee; go back to thy home in peace.</p>
+
+<p>From this place Je-sus went on through all
+the large and small towns, and told the good news
+that God had sent his Son in-to the world to
+save men from their sins. And the twelve were
+with him.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus might have been rich, for all the world was
+his; but he chose to be poor, and to bear all the ills
+of life for our sakes, that we might be drawn to him,
+and be saved from our sins. Good wo-men, whom
+he had cured, gave him such things as he had need
+of, and he did not lack for food or friends.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[301]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Je-sus spoke at times in a strange way. He
+would take scenes from real life and paint them,
+as it were, with words, so that they were plain
+to all. These talks were meant to teach great
+truths that would lodge in the mind, and stand out
+like scenes of real life. They were to take them
+home with them, and keep them in their thoughts
+from day to day.</p>
+
+<p>One of these talks was of a rich man who had
+large fields and vine-yards. And when it was time
+for the crops to come in, the rich man found that his
+barns would not hold them.</p>
+
+<p>And he said, What shall I do? for I have no
+room where I can put my fruits. This will I do: I
+will pull down my small barns and build large ones,
+and there will I store all my goods. And I will say
+to my-self, Thou hast much goods laid up that will
+last thee for years and years; take thine ease, eat,
+drink, and be of good cheer.</p>
+
+<p>But God said to him, Thou fool, this night thou
+shalt die. Then who shall have those things which
+thou hast laid up for years to come?</p>
+
+<p>This was to teach us that it is of no use for
+men to lay up great wealth in this world, for they
+will have to leave it all when they die. And it
+is a sin for a rich man to spend all that he owns
+on him-self, to live at his ease, and to eat and drink,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[302]</a></span>
+as if there were no poor in the world, and no God
+to serve.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus told the twelve not to fret be-cause they
+were poor, or to have the least fear that they might
+want for food, or for clothes to wear. Think of the
+birds, he said. They do not sow seed in the fields,
+nor reap grain and lay it up for use in time of need.
+They have no store-house or barn, yet they have all
+the food they want, for God feeds them and takes
+care of them. And if he does so much for the birds,
+how much more will he do for you?</p>
+
+<p>Look at the flow-ers. See how they grow. They
+do not work, or spin the thread to weave in-to cloth
+as men must do, and yet I say to you that King
+Sol-o-mon did not wear such rich robes as theirs. If
+then God gives such fine clothes to that which grows
+in the field like grass, and which in a day or two is
+burnt up, how much more will he clothe you, though
+ye are so loth to trust him. So do not fret lest you
+shall want for things to eat, and to drink, and to
+wear; for God knows that ye have need of these
+things, and if ye seek first to do his will, he will give
+all these things to you.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_303" id="Page_303">[303]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER IX.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>JESUS AT THE SEA-SHORE.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">While</span> Je-sus was down by the sea, the crowd
+grew so great that he went in-to a boat and sat down
+to teach them as they
+stood on the shore.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 256px;">
+<img src="images/i_118.jpg" width="256" height="300" alt="The sower" />
+<span class="caption">THE SOW-ER.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>He said, A man
+went out in the field
+to sow his seed. And
+as he threw the seed
+from his hand, some
+of it fell on the hard
+path by the road-side,
+and the birds flew
+down and ate it. Some
+fell on the rocks and
+stones where there was
+not much earth, and
+it soon grew up on top
+of the ground. But
+the sun's warm rays
+made it droop, and as it had no root, in a few days
+it was all dried up.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_304" id="Page_304">[304]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Some of the seed fell where thorns and weeds
+were, and these took up all the room, so that there
+was no space for the seed to grow. The air and the
+sun could not get at it, and soon it was choked to
+death.</p>
+
+<p>But some of the seed fell in good ground, that
+the plough had made soft. The rain fell on it,
+the sun shone on it, and it sprang up and bore a
+large crop of grain.</p>
+
+<p>When the crowd had left Je-sus, the twelve
+came near to ask him what he had meant to teach
+by this talk of seeds that were sown here and there.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus told them the seed was the good news
+that he came to preach. Those who preach, or
+teach, sow good or bad seed, which takes root in the
+mind or heart.</p>
+
+<p>Some who heard his words would not care for
+them, but would go on in their sins and feel no
+change of heart. New thoughts and fresh scenes
+would come and eat up the seed-thoughts that Je-sus
+had sown, as quick as the birds ate up the seed
+sown by the road-side.</p>
+
+<p>Some who heard him thought of his words for
+a-while, and tried for a short time to do right. But
+it did not last long. This was the seed that fell in
+the midst of stones, and sprang up at first, but in a
+few days was all dried up.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[305]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 226px;">
+<img src="images/i_119.jpg" width="226" height="300" alt="sowing tares" />
+<span class="caption">THE EN-E-MY SOW-ING TARES.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Some would hear Je-sus preach, and were glad
+of the words that he spoke; but the cares of this
+world, their wealth, and the gay things of life, were
+so much in their thoughts that they could not do the
+things he had taught
+them.</p>
+
+<p>This was the seed
+that fell in the midst of
+thorns, and the thorns
+grew up and choked it.</p>
+
+<p>But there were some
+who heard Je-sus preach,
+and who tried each day
+to do as he taught them.
+This was the seed that
+fell in good ground,
+which took root and grew
+and brought forth ten
+times as much as had
+been sown.</p>
+
+
+<p>One of the talks of Je-sus
+was of a man who sowed good seed in his field.
+And while he slept a foe came and sowed tares, or
+weeds, in the midst of the wheat, and then went on
+his way. And when it was time for the wheat to
+grow up, the weeds grew up with it.</p>
+
+<p>And when the work-men on the farm saw this,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_306" id="Page_306">[306]</a></span>
+they went at once to the man of the house, and said
+to him, Didst thou not sow good seed in thy field?
+Where then have these tares come from?</p>
+
+<p>He said to them, A foe has done this.</p>
+
+<p>The work-men said, Shall we go out, then, and
+pull them up by the roots?</p>
+
+<p>And he said, No, lest while you pull up the tares
+you pull up the wheat with them. Let both grow
+till it is time to reap the grain; and then I will say
+to the reap-ers, Pull up the tares first and bind them
+in stacks to burn. But put the wheat in my barn.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus told the twelve what he meant by this
+talk of the tares of the field.</p>
+
+<p>The field is the world. He who owns the field and
+sows the seed, is Je-sus him-self. The wheat that
+grows up means those who hear his words, and do
+as he has taught them.</p>
+
+<p>The tares are bad men, who have no love for
+Je-sus.</p>
+
+<p>The foe that sows them is Sa-tan.</p>
+
+<p>The time to reap the grain is on the last great
+day. The reap-ers are the an-gels.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus will let the good and the bad live in the
+world till the last great day. Then he will send
+his an-gels to take the good to their home on high,
+but the bad will be cast out in-to the fire that is to
+burn up the world.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_307" id="Page_307">[307]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 226px;">
+<img src="images/i_120.jpg" width="226" height="300" alt="looking for pearls" />
+<span class="caption">SEEK-ING GREAT PEARLS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then Je-sus spoke of a man who went out to buy
+pearls. He went from place to place, and those who
+had pearls to sell brought them out for him to look
+at, but he was hard to suit, and bought but few. At
+last he found one that was worth more than all the
+rest that he had seen.
+But its price was so great
+that he could not buy it.
+What did he do? Why,
+he went and sold all that
+he had, and came back
+and bought this pearl of
+great price.</p>
+
+<p>So will it be with
+those who wish to be rid
+of their sins, and to be as
+pure as a pearl with-in.
+Je-sus in us is the pearl
+of great price. Gold can-not
+buy it. But when
+we learn its cost we should
+make haste to get rid of
+all that keeps Christ out of our hearts, and make
+room for this one pearl, which is worth more than
+all else in the world.</p>
+
+
+<p>Then Je-sus spoke of those who took their net,
+and went out in a boat to catch fish. They cast the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_308" id="Page_308">[308]</a></span>
+net out of the boat and threw it in-to the sea, and
+when it was full drew it back to shore. Then they
+sat down to sort the fish; the good ones were put in
+their boats, and the bad ones were thrown a-way.</p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 296px;">
+<img src="images/i_121.jpg" width="296" height="400" alt="fishermen" />
+<span class="caption">PAR-A-BLE OF THE NETS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>So it would be at
+the last day. The an-gels
+would come forth
+and sort the good from
+the bad. And the good
+would be borne to their
+home on high, but the
+bad would be thrown
+in-to a fire that would
+make them cry out with
+pain.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, Have
+I made these things
+plain to thee? And
+they said, Yes, Lord.</p>
+
+
+<p>One of the Scribes
+came to Je-sus, and
+said, I will not leave
+thee; but where thou
+dost go I will go. Je-sus said to him, The fox-es
+have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but
+I have not where to lay my head. He meant by
+this that he was poor, and had no place where<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_309" id="Page_309">[309]</a></span>
+he could go and lie down when he had need of
+rest.</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 224px;">
+<img src="images/i_122.jpg" width="224" height="350" alt="calming the storm" />
+<span class="caption">STILL-ING THE TEM-PEST.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Night drew near, and the crowd was so great
+that Je-sus and the twelve went in a boat to cross
+the Sea of Gal-i-lee. And
+there came up a great
+storm, and the winds blew
+fierce, and the waves rose
+high and came with a great
+dash in-to the boat.</p>
+
+<p>And Je-sus slept, for
+he was quite worn out.
+The twelve were full of
+fear; and at last they woke
+Je-sus, and said, Lord,
+save us, or we shall sink.</p>
+
+<p>Then he rose and
+spoke to the winds and
+the waves, and said to
+them, Peace, be still.
+And the wind ceased to
+blow, and soon all was still
+and calm.</p>
+
+
+<p>And Je-sus said to the twelve, Why are ye in
+such fear? How is it that ye have no faith?</p>
+
+<p>As Je-sus left the boat a mad-man came out of
+the tombs to meet him. He was so fierce that no man<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_310" id="Page_310">[310]</a></span>
+could bind him, or tame him. He broke loose from
+all the ropes and chains, and no house could hold
+him. So night and day he would roam on the hills
+and in the caves or tombs, where graves had been
+dug, and cry out and cut him-self with bits of stones.</p>
+
+<p>And while Je-sus was still far off, the mad-man
+saw him and ran and fell down at his feet. And he
+cried out, What have I to do with thee, Je-sus, thou
+Son of God? Harm me not, I pray thee.</p>
+
+<p>Now there was there, close by the hills, a great
+herd of swine. And the fiends that were in the man
+begged Je-sus to send them in-to the swine. And
+Je-sus said, Go. And when they came out of the
+man they went in the swine, and the herd ran down
+a steep place and were drowned in the sea.</p>
+
+<p>And they that fed the swine went and told what
+had been done, and great crowds came to the place
+where Je-sus was.</p>
+
+<p>And when they saw that the mad-man sat with
+his clothes on and in his right mind, they were in
+great fear. And they prayed Je-sus to leave the
+place at once.</p>
+
+<p>When Je-sus was come in-to the boat, he that had
+been out of his mind begged that he might go with
+him. But Je-sus would not let him, and said to
+him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them what
+great things the Lord hath done for thee.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_311" id="Page_311">[311]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And the man went and told how he had been
+made well, and those who heard him felt that Je-sus
+must have been sent from God, for no mere man
+could do such strange things.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER X.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>JESUS BRINGS THE DEAD TO LIFE.&mdash;FEEDS FIVE
+THOUSAND.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Je-sus</span> went back to Ca-per-na-um. And as he
+stood by the sea-shore, one of the chief men of the
+church came to him, whose name was Ja-i-rus.</p>
+
+<p>He was in deep grief, for he had but one child,
+a girl twelve years of age, and she lay sick at his
+home and there was no help for her. And he said
+to Je-sus, My child lies at the point of death. I
+pray thee come and lay thy hands on her that she
+may live.</p>
+
+<p>And Je-sus went with him, and so did the
+twelve, and all the crowd that had come up to hear
+Je-sus preach. And in the throng was a wo-man
+who had been sick for twelve years. She had spent
+all she had to try to be made well; but all the drugs
+she took did her no good, and no one could seem to
+help her case. So she went on from bad to worse.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[312]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When she heard of Je-sus she came up with the
+crowd at his back, and put out her hand and touched
+the hem of his robe. For, she said, if I may touch
+but his clothes I shall be made well. And as soon
+as she had done this she felt that she was cured.</p>
+
+<p>All this was known to Je-sus, and yet he faced
+the crowd and said, Who touched me?</p>
+
+<p>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 it.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, Someone touched me, and he looked
+round to see who had done it.</p>
+
+<p>When the wo-man saw that Je-sus knew all, and
+that she could not hide from him, she shook with fear,
+and fell down at his feet, and told him why she had
+touched him, and how that touch had made her well.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to her, Be of good cheer. Thy faith
+in me hath made thee well.</p>
+
+<p>While he yet spoke to her, there came one from
+the house of Ja-i-rus, who said to him, Thy child is
+dead.</p>
+
+<p>When Je-sus heard it he said, Fear not. Trust
+in me and she shall be made well. And when he
+came to the house, he found a great crowd there, who
+wept and mourned the loss of the young child.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to them, Why do you weep? She
+sleeps; she is not dead.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_313" id="Page_313">[313]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>He meant that she would soon rise from the dead,
+as one who wakes out of his sleep.</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 261px;">
+<img src="images/i_123.jpg" width="261" height="400" alt="ill woman" />
+<span class="caption">CUR-ED BY TOUCH-ING HIS GAR-MENT.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>But they saw that she was dead, and as they had
+no faith in his words
+they laughed him to
+scorn.</p>
+
+<p>Then he put them
+all out of the room save
+three of the twelve&mdash;Pe-ter,
+James, and
+John&mdash;and the fa-ther
+and mo-ther of the
+young girl. Then he
+took the child by the
+hand and said, I say
+to thee a-rise. And
+she rose from her bed,
+and had strength to
+walk, and Je-sus bade
+them bring her some
+food that she might eat.</p>
+
+
+<p>And her fa-ther and
+mo-ther knew not what
+to think of these
+strange things. Je-sus bade them tell no one of what
+he had done, and there was no need for them to
+speak. For there was their child, well and strong,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_314" id="Page_314">[314]</a></span>
+once more the light and joy of their house, and
+their hearts must have been full of thanks and
+praise to God!</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 279px;">
+<img src="images/i_124.jpg" width="279" height="400" alt="Jairus daughter" />
+<span class="caption">THE DAU-GHTER OF JA-I-RUS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>When Je-sus went from the house of Ja-i-rus two
+blind men came near
+him and cried out,
+Thou Son of Da-vid
+have mer-cy on us.
+They said this be-cause
+they knew that he was
+of King Da-vid's race.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to them,
+Do you think that I can
+make you well? They
+said to him, Yes, Lord.</p>
+
+<p>Then he touched
+their eyes, and at once
+their sight came back
+to them. And he said
+to them, Tell no man
+what I have done to
+you. But when they
+left him they went from
+place to place and told all whom they met how Je-sus
+had brought back their sight.</p>
+
+<p>And they brought to him a dumb man who could
+not speak be-cause of the fiend that was in him. And<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[315]</a></span>
+as soon as Je-sus cast out the fiend the man spoke.
+And all those who saw it were in a maze, and said,
+Such things as these have not been done be-fore
+in the land of Is-ra-el.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 295px;">
+<img src="images/i_125.jpg" width="295" height="400" alt="blind men" />
+<span class="caption">THE TWO BLIND MEN.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>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-tan, the
+prince of all fiends.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to
+the twelve, Come,
+let us go to some
+lone place and rest
+a while. For the
+crowds were so great
+that they had no
+time to eat. And
+they went in a boat
+quiet-ly to cross the
+Sea of Gal-i-lee, where they might rest and take the
+food they were so much in need of. 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 was.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_316" id="Page_316">[316]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And when Je-sus went out and saw them, his
+heart was moved, and he taught them, and made the
+sick ones well.</p>
+
+<p>When night came on, the twelve said to Je-sus,
+Send these off that they may go to the towns and
+buy food for them-selves, for they have nought
+to eat.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, They need not go. Give you them
+some-thing to eat.</p>
+
+<p>They said, Shall we go out and buy bread and
+give it to them?</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, How much have you? Go and see.</p>
+
+<p>When they knew they said, We have five loaves
+and two small fish-es.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus bade the twelve have the crowd seat
+them-selves in rows on the green grass. Then he
+took the five loaves and the two fish-es, and gave
+thanks to God for them. And he broke the loaves,
+and the fish-es, and the twelve gave them piece by
+piece to the crowd, till all had had their fill.</p>
+
+<p>When the feast was at an end there was e-nough
+bread and fish left to fill twelve bas-kets.</p>
+
+<p>Then Je-sus bade the twelve dis-ci-ples get in-to
+the boat and go back to Ca-per-na-um.</p>
+
+<p>And when the crowd had left him he went up
+on a high hill to pray. And when night came on he
+was there with none but God near him.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_317" id="Page_317">[317]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 268px;">
+<img src="images/i_126.jpg" width="268" height="450" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">FEED-ING THE MUL-TI-TUDE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The twelve were in the boat, out in the midst of
+the sea.</p>
+
+<p>Their oars were of no use, for the wind blew hard
+the wrong way, and drove
+them back from their
+course, and made the
+waves toss the boat here
+and there.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus could see it all
+from his high place on the
+hill, and in the night he
+went down to the shore
+and walked out on the
+sea.</p>
+
+<p>When the twelve saw
+him they were in a great
+fright, for they thought it
+was a ghost, and they cried
+out in their fear.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, Be of good
+cheer. It is I.</p>
+
+
+<p>Pe-ter spoke from the
+boat, and said, Lord, if it
+be thou, bid me come to
+thee on the sea. Je-sus said to him, Come, and Pe-ter
+came out of the boat and walked on the waves
+to go to Je-sus. But when he heard the noise of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_318" id="Page_318">[318]</a></span>
+the wind, and saw the waves dash all round him, he
+was in great fear; and as he felt him-self sink he
+cried out, Lord,
+save me.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 333px;">
+<img src="images/i_127.jpg" width="333" height="450" alt="walking on water" />
+<span class="caption">PE-TER WALK-ING ON THE WA-TER.</span>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>Je-sus put
+forth his hand
+and caught him,
+and said to him,
+O thou of lit-tle
+faith, why didst
+thou doubt me?</p>
+
+<p>When Je-sus
+and Pe-ter came
+in-to the boat the
+wind was still,
+and the twelve
+were soon on the
+shore they had
+set out to reach.
+Then they fell
+at his feet, and
+said, It is true
+that thou art the
+Son of God.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 462px;">
+<img src="images/i_128.jpg" width="462" height="600" alt="Jesus on water" />
+<span class="caption">CHRIST WALK-ING ON THE SEA.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>As soon as it was known where Je-sus was,
+crowds came from all the towns that were near, and
+brought their sick in their beds that he might make<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_320" id="Page_320">[320]</a></span>
+them well. And when he went through the large
+and small towns they laid the sick in the streets, and
+begged that they might touch but the hem of his
+robe. And at a touch they were all made well.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XI.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>JESUS HEALS THE SICK.&mdash;HIS FORM CHANGED ON THE
+MOUNT.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Je-sus</span> went to Ca-per-na-um and taught the Jews
+there. But all that he said made them hate him the
+more, and their chief priests did all they could to
+prove that he was not the Christ who was to save
+them. They thought that he who was to be the
+King of the Jews would come in rich robes, and
+with all the signs of high rank. So they would have
+naught to do with a poor man like Je-sus.</p>
+
+<p>It made Je-sus sad to have the Jews turn from
+him, and he left them, and went out to the towns of
+Tyre and Si-don, which were on the sea-coast. And
+no Jews dwelt there.</p>
+
+<p>Yet a wo-man, as soon as she heard he was there,
+came out and cried to him, O Lord, thou Son of
+Da-vid, come and heal my child, for she has gone
+mad.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_321" id="Page_321">[321]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 451px;">
+<img src="images/i_129.jpg" width="451" height="600" alt="The Ascension" />
+<span class="caption">THE AS-CEN-SION.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Je-sus said he was sent to none but the Jews.
+This he did to try her faith, for she was not a Jew.</p>
+
+<p>But she fell at his feet, and cried out, Lord help
+me!</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/i_130.jpg" width="500" height="361" alt="Sidon" />
+<span class="caption">SI-DON.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to her, Great is thy faith; thy child is
+made well.</p>
+
+<p>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-sus.</p>
+
+<p>Then Je-sus and the twelve went down near the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_323" id="Page_323">[323]</a><br /><a name="Page_324" id="Page_324">[324]</a></span>
+Sea of Gal-i-lee once more. And they brought to
+Je-sus a man that was deaf, and who could not speak
+plain, that he might lay his hands on him and heal
+him.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus took him out of the crowd, and touched
+his ears and tongue, and at once the man was made
+well, so that he could both hear and speak.</p>
+
+<p>And crowds came to him, and brought those that
+were lame, blind, and dumb, and laid them down at
+the feet of Je-sus, that he might heal them. And
+Je-sus healed them all, so that the crowds were in a
+maze when they saw the dumb speak, the lame walk,
+and the blind see; and they gave praise and thanks
+to God for what he had done.</p>
+
+<p>At the end of six days Je-sus took Pe-ter, James,
+and John, and went up on a high mount to pray.
+And while he was there a great change took place in
+him. His face shone as the sun, and his clothes were
+as white as snow, and the light shone through them.</p>
+
+<p>And Mo-ses and E-li-jah came to him, and
+spoke with him.</p>
+
+<p>Pe-ter said, Lord, it is good for us to be here.
+Let us make three tents, one for thee, and one for
+Mo-ses, and one for E-li-jah.</p>
+
+<p>While he yet spoke there came a bright cloud,
+out of which a voice spoke and said, This is my dear
+Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_325" id="Page_325">[325]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When Pe-ter, James, and John heard it, they
+bowed down to the ground, and were in great fear.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus came and touched them, and said, Rise.
+Fear not. And when
+they raised their eyes
+they saw no one but
+Je-sus.</p>
+
+<p>As they came
+down from the
+mount, Je-sus bade
+them tell no one what
+they had seen till he
+rose from the dead.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 286px;">
+<img src="images/i_131.jpg" width="286" height="400" alt="Peter" />
+<span class="caption">PE-TER AND THE TRIB-UTE MON-EY.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The next day,
+when they had come
+down from the
+mount, there was a
+great crowd to see
+Je-sus. And one
+man knelt at his feet
+and said, Lord,
+help my son, for he
+has fits, and the
+fiends in him vex him so that he falls in the fire and
+in the wa-ter. I took him to those whom thou hast
+taught to heal, to see if they could cure him; and
+they could not.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_326" id="Page_326">[326]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, Bring him to me. And they brought
+him; and he fell on the ground and foamed at the
+mouth.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to the fiend that was in the young
+man, Come out of him and vex him no more.</p>
+
+<p>And the fiend cried with a loud voice, and shook
+the young man, and came out of him, but left him
+weak, like one dead. And those who stood near
+thought he was dead. But Je-sus took him by the
+hand and raised him, and he stood on his feet and
+was well from that hour.</p>
+
+<p>Then Je-sus and the twelve went to Ca-per-na-um.
+And when they were in the house Je-sus said, Why
+were ye at such strife in your talk on the way?</p>
+
+<p>And for shame they held their peace, 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 Jews.</p>
+
+<p>When they had sat down Je-sus said to the
+twelve, He who seeks to be first shall be last of all.</p>
+
+<p>And he took a child and set it in the midst of
+them, and told them that they must put pride
+out of their hearts and be as meek as a child. For
+he who thought not of him-self, but did God's will
+as a child does the will of its fa-ther, the same should
+be great in the realm which Je-sus was to set up.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus taught there for some time, and then set<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_327" id="Page_327">[327]</a></span>
+out for Je-ru-sa-lem. And the twelve went with
+him.</p>
+
+<p>When they were come to Ca-per-na-um, those that
+took in the trib-ute mon-ey came to Pe-ter and said,
+Doth not your mas-ter pay trib-ute.</p>
+
+<p>This was the tax the Jews had to pay to Ce-sar
+as the price of peace.</p>
+
+<p>Pe-ter said, Yes. And when he came in-to the
+house Je-sus met him and said.</p>
+
+<p>Of whom do the kings of the earth take cus-tom
+or trib-ute? of their own chil-dren or of stran-gers?</p>
+
+<p>Pe-ter said, Of stran-gers.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, Then are the chil-dren free. But
+lest we should give cause for blame, go thou to the
+sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first
+comes up. In its mouth thou shalt find a piece of
+mon-ey. Take that and give it to them for me and
+thee.</p><hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XII.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>THE GOOD SAMARITAN.&mdash;MARTHA AND MARY.&mdash;THE MAN BORN BLIND.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Je-sus</span> went to the great church in Je-ru-sa-lem,
+and the Jews came there in crowds to hear him
+preach, and to find fault with him.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_328" id="Page_328">[328]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And a man of law stood up and said, What must
+I do to be saved? Je-sus said to him, What does
+the law say? How dost thou read it? The man of
+law said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
+thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
+strength, and thy neigh-bor as thy-self.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to him, That is right. Do this, and
+thou shalt be saved.</p>
+
+<p>The man of law said, Who is my neigh-bor?
+Then Je-sus spoke in this way, and said, A man
+went down from Je-ru-sa-lem to Je-ri-cho. And the
+thieves fell on him, tore off his clothes and beat him,
+then went on their way and left him half dead on the
+ground.</p>
+
+<p>By chance there came a priest that way, and
+when he saw the poor man he went by him on the
+oth-er side of the road.</p>
+
+<p>Then one of the tribe of Le-vi came to the place,
+and took a look at the poor man, and went by on
+the oth-er side of the road.</p>
+
+<p>By and by a Sa-mar-i-tan&mdash;that is, a man from
+Sa-ma-ri-a&mdash;came that way, and as soon as he saw
+the poor man on the ground his heart was moved,
+and he made haste to help him.</p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 262px;">
+<img src="images/i_132.jpg" width="262" height="400" alt="The Samaritan" />
+<span class="caption">THE GOOD SAM-AR-I-TAN.</span>
+</div>
+<p>Now the Jews did not like the Sa-mar-i-tans, and
+would have nought to do with them. And those to
+whom Je-sus spoke would not have thought it strange<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_329" id="Page_329">[329]</a></span>
+if this man from Sa-ma-ri-a had left the Jew to die
+by the road-side.</p>
+
+<p>But this he could not do, for he had a kind
+heart. He went to the
+poor man and bound
+up his wounds, and set
+him on his own beast,
+and brought him to an
+inn, and took care of
+him.</p>
+
+<p>And the next day
+when he left he took
+out two pence and gave
+them to the host, and
+said to him, Take care
+of him; and if thou hast
+need to spend more
+than that, when I come
+back I will pay thee.</p>
+
+<p>Which now of
+these three dost thou
+think was neigh-bor to
+him who fell a-mong
+thieves?</p>
+
+
+
+<p>And the man of law said, He that was kind to
+him.</p>
+
+<p>Then said Je-sus, Go, and do thou like-wise; that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_330" id="Page_330">[330]</a></span>
+is, to those who need help go and do as the Sa-mar-i-tan
+did.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus came to Beth-a-ny&mdash;a small place near Je-ru-sa-lem&mdash;and
+a wo-man, whose name was Mar-tha,
+asked him to come to her house. She had a sis-ter,
+whose name was Ma-ry, and while Mar-tha went to
+get things and to cook, and sweep, and dust, Ma-ry
+sat down at the feet of Je-sus to hear him talk.</p>
+
+<p>This did not please Mar-tha, who felt that she
+had too much work to do; so she came to Je-sus and
+said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sis-ter hath
+left me to do the work a-lone? Bid her there-fore
+come and help me.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to her, Mar-tha, Mar-tha, thou art
+full of care and vexed a-bout more things than there
+is need of. There is need of but one thing, and
+Ma-ry hath made choice of that which is good, and
+no one shall take it from her.</p>
+
+<p>He meant that Ma-ry chose to care for her soul,
+and to be taught how to live in this world, so that
+she might fit her-self for the next one. And the one
+thing we all need is a new heart, full of love to Je-sus
+and glad to do his work.</p>
+
+<p>One of the twelve said to Je-sus, Teach us how
+to pray, as John taught those who were with him.
+Je-sus taught them to pray thus:</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 363px;">
+<img src="images/i_133.jpg" width="363" height="500" alt="Sisters" />
+<span class="caption">MA-RY AND MAR-THA.</span>
+</div>
+<p>Our Fa-ther, who art in heav-en, Hal-low-ed be<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_331" id="Page_331">[331]</a></span>
+thy name, Thy king-dom come, Thy will be done on
+earth as it is in heav-en, Give us this day our dai-ly
+bread, and for-give
+us our
+debts as we
+for-give our
+debt-ors. Lead
+us not in-to
+temp-ta-tion
+but de-liv-er us
+from e-vil, for
+thine is the
+king-dom, the
+pow-er, and
+the glo-ry, both
+now and for-ev-er.
+A-men.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>Then he
+said, Which
+of you shall
+have a friend
+and shall go to
+him at mid-night
+and say
+to him, Friend,
+lend me three loaves: for a friend of mine has come
+a long way to see me, and I have no food for him.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_332" id="Page_332">[332]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And he who is in-side shall say, The door is now
+shut, and my chil-dren are with me in bed; I can-not
+rise and give thee.</p>
+
+<p>I say to you, though he will not rise and give him
+be-cause he is his friend, yet if he keeps on and begs
+hard he will rise and give him as much as he needs.
+And I say to you, Ask God for what you need and
+he will give it to you. Seek and ye shall find.
+Knock, and the door that is shut will o-pen for you.</p>
+
+<p>For, he said, if a child of yours should ask for
+bread, would you give him a stone? or should he ask
+for a fish, would you give him a snake? If ye then,
+who are full of sin, know how to give good gifts to
+your chil-dren, how much more sure is it that God
+will give good things to those who ask him.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus chose three-score and ten more men and
+sent them out, two and two, in-to all the towns where
+he meant to come, that they might heal the sick and
+preach the good news. And they did as he told
+them, and came back full of joy at the great things
+they had done through the strength that he gave
+them. Je-sus told them that they should feel more
+joy that their names were set down in the Book of
+Life&mdash;God's book&mdash;where he keeps the names of all
+those who love him, and do his will on earth.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 479px;">
+<img src="images/i_134.jpg" width="479" height="600" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">THE SEND-ING OUT OF THE SEV-EN-TY.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The Feast of Tents was near at hand, and Je-sus
+said to the twelve, Go ye up to this feast, but I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_334" id="Page_334">[334]</a></span>
+will not go now, for my time has not yet come. So
+he staid in Gal-i-lee for a-while. Then he went up
+to Je-ru-sa-lem, but did not make him-self known
+lest the Jews should kill him.</p>
+
+<p>The Jews sought for him at the feast, and
+said, Where is he? And there was much talk of
+him. Some said, He is a good man; and some
+said, No, he is a fraud. But no one dared to speak
+well of him out loud for fear of the Jews.</p>
+
+<p>In the midst of the feast Je-sus went up in-to the
+church and taught there. And he said, Ye both
+know me, and ye know from whence I came. I am
+not come to please my-self, but to do the will of him
+that sent me, whom ye know not. But I know him,
+for I have come from him, and he hath sent me.</p>
+
+<p>Then they made a rush for him, but no man laid
+hands on him, for his hour had not yet come. God
+had set the time for him to die, and no one could
+harm him till that day and hour.</p>
+
+<p>As he came from the church he saw a man who
+had been blind from his birth. Je-sus spat on the
+ground and made clay of the moist earth, and spread
+the clay on the eyes of the blind man.</p>
+
+<p>Then he told him to go and wash in a pool that
+was near. And he went, and did as he was told,
+and his sight came back to him.</p>
+
+<p>And his friends, and those who had seen him<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_335" id="Page_335">[335]</a></span>
+when he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and
+begged?</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 316px;">
+<img src="images/i_135.jpg" width="316" height="450" alt="Seeing man" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;ONCE I WAS BLIND, BUT NOW I SEE.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Some said, This is he; and some said, He is like
+him; but the man
+said, I am he.</p>
+
+<p>Then they said
+to him, How were
+thine eyes cured?</p>
+
+<p>And he said, A
+man, by the name of
+Je-sus, made clay and
+spread it on my eyes,
+and said to me, Go to
+the pool of Si-lo-am
+and wash; and I went
+and did so, and my
+sight came back to
+me.</p>
+
+<p>Then they said to
+him, Where is he?
+He said, I know not.</p>
+
+
+<p>It was on the day
+of rest that Je-sus
+made the clay, and
+the Phar-i-sees, when they heard of it, said, This
+man is not of God, for he does not keep the day of
+rest. And they went to the fa-ther and the mo-ther<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_336" id="Page_336">[336]</a></span>
+of the man who had been blind, and said to them,
+Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? How
+then doth he now see?</p>
+
+<p>His pa-rents said, We know that this is our son,
+and that he was born blind; but by what means he
+now sees, or who hath cured his eyes, we know not.
+He is of age, ask him; he shall speak for him-self.</p>
+
+<p>They spoke thus for fear of the Jews; for the
+Jews had made it known that all those who said that
+Je-sus was the Christ should be put out of the
+church. So they said, He is of age; ask him.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Phar-i-sees went to the man that was
+blind, and said to him, Give God the praise, for we
+know that this man is a man of sin.</p>
+
+<p>He said to them, What he is I know not; but
+this I do know, that once I was blind, but now I see.</p>
+
+<p>Then they said to him, What did he do to thee?
+How did he cure thine eyes?</p>
+
+<p>The man said, I have told you be-fore, and ye
+did not hear. Why would ye hear me say it once
+more? Would ye be of his band?</p>
+
+<p>Then they spoke harsh words to him, and said,
+Thou dost take sides with him, but we stand by Mo-ses.
+We know that God spoke to Mo-ses; but as
+for this fel-low, we know not who sent him.</p>
+
+<p>The man said, It is strange that ye know not
+who sent him, when he has brought sight to my blind<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_337" id="Page_337">[337]</a></span>
+eyes. Since the world was made we have not heard
+of a man who could give sight to one that was born
+blind. If this man were not of God he could not
+have done this thing.</p>
+
+<p>The Phar-i-sees were full of wrath, and said to the
+man, Thou hast dwelt in sin from thy birth, and
+wilt thou try to teach us? And they drove him out
+of the church.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus heard of it, and when he found the man
+he said to him, Have you faith in the son of God?</p>
+
+<p>He said, Who is he, Lord, that I may put my
+trust in him?</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, It is he that talks with thee.</p>
+
+<p>The man said, Lord, I know that it must be so;
+and he fell at the feet of Je-sus, and gave praise to him.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XIII.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>JESUS, THE GOOD SHEPHERD.&mdash;LAZARUS BROUGHT TO LIFE.&mdash;THE FEAST, AND THOSE WHO WERE BID TO IT.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Je-sus</span> said to those whom he taught, I am the
+good shep-herd. The good shep-herd will give his
+life for the sheep. But he that is hired, and who
+does not own the sheep, when he sees the wolf
+will leave the sheep and run to save his own life.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_338" id="Page_338">[338]</a></span>
+Then the wolf lays hold of the sheep, and puts the
+flock to flight. He who is hired flees from the sheep,
+be-cause he does not care for them.</p>
+
+<p>I am the good shep-herd and know my sheep,
+and my sheep know me. And I will lay down my
+life for the sheep.</p>
+
+<p>Some sheep I have which are not of this fold;
+they too must I bring in, and they shall hear my
+voice, and there shall be one fold, and one shep-herd.</p>
+
+<p>The Jews found fault with his words, and some
+said, He talks like a mad-man.</p>
+
+<p>As Je-sus went out on the porch at one side of
+the great church that He-rod built, the Jews came
+round him and said, How long wilt thou keep us in
+doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us so in plain
+words.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, I told you, and ye had no faith in
+me. The works that I do, in God's name, are proof
+that I am sent from him. But ye do not trust me
+be-cause ye are not my sheep. My sheep hear my
+voice, and I know them, and they go the way I lead.
+They shall not be lost, and no one shall take them
+from me. For God gave them to me, and no one
+can take them out of his hand. I and my Fa-ther
+are one.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Jews took up stones to stone him, be-cause
+he said that he was God.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_339" id="Page_339">[339]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>But he fled from them, and went out of Je-ru-sa-lem
+to a place near the Jor-dan, where crowds came
+to hear him, and to be taught of him. And not a
+few gave their hearts to Je-sus, and sought to lead
+new lives; to do right
+and to be good.</p>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 294px;">
+<img src="images/i_136.jpg" width="294" height="400" alt="sheep" />
+<span class="caption">THE LOST SHEEP.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Ma-ry and Mar-tha,
+who lived at
+Beth-a-ny, had a bro-ther
+whose name was
+Laz-a-rus, and he was
+sick. So his sis-ters
+sent word to Je-sus,
+but though he was
+fond of these friends
+at Beth-a-ny he made
+no haste to go to
+them, but staid two
+days in the place
+where he was.</p>
+
+<p>Then he said to
+the twelve, Let us go
+back to Beth-a-ny, for
+my friend Laz-a-rus sleeps, and I must go and
+wake him.</p>
+
+<p>He meant that Laz-a-rus was dead, and that he
+must go and bring him back to life.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_340" id="Page_340">[340]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>But the twelve thought that he meant that Laz-a-rus
+slept, as we do when we take our rest.</p>
+
+<p>Now Beth-a-ny was near Je-ru-sa-lem, and a
+crowd of Jews had gone there to weep with Ma-ry
+and Mar-tha. As soon as Mar-tha heard that Je-sus
+was near she ran out to meet him; but Ma-ry
+sat still in the house. And Mar-tha said to Je-sus,
+If thou hadst been here my bro-ther would not have
+died. But I know that e-ven now what thou wilt
+ask of God he will give it thee.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to her, Thy bro-ther shall rise a-gain.</p>
+
+<p>Mar-tha said, I know that he shall rise at the
+last day.</p>
+
+<p>Then Mar-tha went back to the house and said
+to Ma-ry, The mas-ter has come and asks for thee.</p>
+
+<p>Ma-ry rose at once and went out to meet him;
+and those who saw her leave the house, said, She
+goes to the grave to weep there.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as Ma-ry came to the place where Je-sus
+was, she fell at his feet and said, Lord, if thou
+hadst been here my bro-ther had not died.</p>
+
+<p>When Je-sus saw her tears, and the tears of those
+who wept with her, he was full of grief, and said,
+Where have ye laid him?</p>
+
+<p>They said, Lord, come and see.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus wept. And when the Jews saw it they
+said, See how he loved him. And some of them<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_341" id="Page_341">[341]</a></span>
+said, Could not this man, who gave the blind their
+sight, have saved Laz-a-rus from death?</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 274px;">
+<img src="images/i_137.jpg" width="274" height="400" alt="at Lazarus' tomb" />
+<span class="caption">LAZ-A-RUS RAISED FROM THE DEAD.</span>
+</div>
+<p>Je-sus came to the grave. It was a cave, and a
+stone lay at the mouth
+of it.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, Take a-way
+the stone. Mar-tha
+said to him, By this
+time he must be in a
+bad state, for he has
+been dead four days.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to her,
+Did I not tell thee that
+if thou hadst faith thou
+should see what great
+things God could do?</p>
+
+<p>Then they took the
+stone from the place
+where the dead was laid.
+And Je-sus cried out
+with a loud voice, Laz-a-rus,
+come forth.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>And he that was dead came forth, bound hand
+and foot in his grave clothes, and with his head tied
+up in a cloth. Je-sus said, Loose him and let
+him go.</p>
+
+<p>And some of the Jews who came to be with Ma-ry<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_342" id="Page_342">[342]</a></span>
+and Mar-tha, and saw this great thing which Je-sus
+did, had faith in him that he was the son of God.
+But some of them went to the Phar-i-sees and told
+what he had done.</p>
+
+<p>And the Phar-i-sees and chief priests met to talk
+of Je-sus and his deeds. They said it would not do
+to let him go on in this way, for he would raise up
+a host of friends who would make him their king.
+That would not please the <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Ceser'">Ce-sar</ins> of Rome, who
+would come and take Je-ru-sa-lem from them, and
+drive the Jews out of the land.</p>
+
+<p>So from that time they sought out some way in
+which they could put Je-sus to death.</p>
+
+<p>As Je-sus went out of the church where he had
+taught on the Lord's day, he saw a wo-man all bent
+up in a heap. She had been so for near a score of
+years, and could not lift her-self up.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to her, Wo-man, thou art made well.
+And he laid his hands on her, and she rose at once,
+and stood up straight, and gave thanks to God.</p>
+
+<p>And the chief man of the church was wroth with
+Je-sus, be-cause he had done this deed on the day of
+rest. He said to those in the church, There are six
+days in which men ought to work; if you want to be
+cured come then, and not on the day of rest.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus spoke, and said, Doth not each one of you
+loose his ox or his ass from the stall and lead him
+off to drink? And if it is right to do for the ox and
+the ass what they need, is it not right that this
+wom-an should be made well on the day of rest?</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 471px;">
+<img src="images/i_138.jpg" width="471" height="600" alt="supper" />
+<span class="caption">THE GREAT SUP-PER.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And when he said this his foes hung their heads
+with shame, and all his friends were glad for the
+great deeds that were done by him.</p>
+
+<p>One Lord's day he went to the house of one of
+the chief Phar-i-sees, and while there he spoke of a
+man who made a great feast.</p>
+
+<p>And when it was all spread out, he sent his ser-vant
+out to bid those come in whom he had asked
+to the feast.</p>
+
+<p>And they all cried out that they could not come.
+The first one said, I have bought a piece of ground,
+and must go and see it; so pray do not look for me.</p>
+
+<p>The next one said, I have bought five yoke of
+ox-en, and must go and try them; so pray do not
+look for me.</p>
+
+<p>The next one said, I have just ta-ken a wife, and
+so can-not come.</p>
+
+<p>So the ser-vant came back to the house and told
+his mas-ter these things. Then the rich man was
+in a rage, and he said to his ser-vant, Make haste
+and go out through the streets and lanes of the town,
+and bring in the poor, the lame, and the halt and
+the blind.</p>
+
+<p>And the ser-vant did as he was told. Then he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_344" id="Page_344">[344]</a><br /><a name="Page_345" id="Page_345">[345]</a></span>
+came and said, Lord, I have done as thou didst bid
+me, and yet there is room for more.</p>
+
+<p>The lord of the house then said, Go out through
+the high-ways, and down by the hedge-rows, and
+make the folks come in, that my house may be full;
+for none of those who were first called shall taste of
+my feast.</p>
+
+<p>The man who spreads the feast is God. The
+feast is the good news&mdash;that Christ will save us from
+our sins. The ser-vant means those who preach, and
+urge men to come to Christ. Those who were first
+bid to the feast and would not come mean the Jews.
+And to bid the poor, the lame, and the blind come
+in-to the feast, means that the poor and the sick are
+to be saved as well as the rich and the great.</p>
+
+<p>Great crowds drew near to Je-sus, and he told
+them that though they might come and hear him
+preach, if they did not care for him in their hearts
+they were not true friends, and could not be of his
+band. They must care more for him than for all
+else in the whole world; and must bear his cross&mdash;that
+is, they must do what is right, as Je-sus did.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_346" id="Page_346">[346]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XIV.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>THE PRODIGAL SON.&mdash;THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN.&mdash;BABES BROUGHT TO JESUS.&mdash;ZACCHEUS CLIMBS A TREE.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Je-sus</span> said, There was a rich man who had two
+sons. One of them was wild, and fond of feasts and
+of gay times, and did not care for his home, or the
+life that he led there. So he went to his fa-ther and
+said, Give me, I pray thee, my share of the wealth
+thou hast laid up for thine heirs, that I may spend
+it as I choose. And he took his share, and went far
+from home, and led a gay life.</p>
+
+<p>And when he had spent all he had, there came
+a dearth in that land, and he was in great want.</p>
+
+<p>That he might not starve, he went out in search
+of work, and a man hired him, and sent him in the
+fields to feed swine. 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 fed, but none of the men gave it to him.</p>
+
+<p>Then he said to him-self, The men my fa-ther
+hires have more food than they can eat, while I
+starve for want of what they can well spare. I will<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_347" id="Page_347">[347]</a></span>
+rise and go to my fa-ther, and will say to him, Fa-ther,
+I have done wrong in thy sight, and in the
+sight of God, and have no more right to be called
+thy son. Let me come
+back to thy house, and
+be as a ser-vant.</p>
+
+<p>So he rose and went
+to his fa-ther. And
+while he was yet a long
+way off his fa-ther saw
+him, and ran and fell on
+his neck and kissed him.</p>
+
+<p>And the son said to
+him, Fa-ther I have
+done wrong in thy sight,
+and in the sight of God,
+and have no more right
+to be called thy son.</p>
+
+<p>But the fa-ther said
+to his hired men, Bring
+forth the best robe and
+put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes
+on his feet. And bring in the fat-ted calf, and kill it,
+and let us eat and be glad. For this my son was dead,
+and now lives; he was lost and is found. And tears
+and sighs gave place to smiles and songs of joy.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 249px;">
+<img src="images/i_139.jpg" width="249" height="350" alt="Prodigal son" />
+<span class="caption">THE PROD-I-GAL&#39;S RE-TURN.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now the son who had staid at home and kept<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_348" id="Page_348">[348]</a></span>
+his share of wealth that his fa-ther gave him, was at
+work in the field. And as he came near the house
+he heard the gay sounds, and called one of the hired
+men to him and asked what it all meant.</p>
+
+<p>The man said, Thy broth-er is here, and thy fa-ther
+has made a feast, so great is his joy to have him
+back safe and sound. And the young man was in
+a rage, and would not go in the house; so his fa-ther
+came out and coaxed him.</p>
+
+<p>And he said to his fa-ther, For years and years
+have I been true to thee and broke none of thy laws.
+But thou didst not kill a kid for me that I might
+make a feast for my friends. But as soon as this thy
+son was come, who spent thy wealth in ways of sin,
+thou didst kill the fat-ted calf for him.</p>
+
+<p>And the fa-ther said, My son, I have loved thee
+all thy life, and all that I own is the same as if it was
+thine; yet it was right that we should be glad and
+sing songs of joy, for this thy broth-er was dead and
+now lives; he was lost and is found.</p>
+
+<p>In this way Je-sus taught those who found fault
+with him, that God was glad to have men turn from
+their sins and come back to him. He loved them
+in spite of their sins, and when they made up their
+minds to leave them, and to do what was right, God
+met them more than half way, and gave peace and
+joy to their hearts.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_349" id="Page_349">[349]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 336px;">
+<img src="images/i_140.jpg" width="336" height="450" alt="Pharisee" />
+<span class="caption">THE PHAR-I-SEE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>A prod-i-gal is one who wastes all that he has.</p>
+
+<p>Then Je-sus spoke to those who were proud, and
+felt as if no one
+else was quite as
+good as they
+were. And he
+said, Two men
+went up in-to
+the church to
+pray. One of
+them&mdash;a Phar-i-see&mdash;chose
+a
+place where all
+could see him;
+and he stood up
+and said, God
+I thank thee
+that I am not
+like oth-er men.
+I fast twice a
+week, and I give
+to the aid of the
+church a tenth
+part of all I own.</p>
+
+
+<p>But the oth-er man stood far off, and bowed his
+head, and beat on his breast as he said, God help
+me, and for-give my sins. And God for-gave this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_350" id="Page_350">[350]</a></span>
+man more than he did the oth-er, for those that are
+proud shall be brought low, and those who are meek
+shall be set in a high place.</p>
+
+<p>Then babes were brought to Je-sus that he might
+lay his hands on them and bless them. And when
+the twelve saw it, they tried to keep them back, and
+would have sent them a-way.</p>
+
+<p>This did not please Je-sus, and he said to them,
+Let the chil-dren come to me, and do not hold them
+back, for of such is the king-dom of God.</p>
+
+<p>He meant that no one could have a home with
+God who was not as good, and sweet, and pure as a
+young child, who hates sin, and loves God with his
+whole heart. Then Je-sus took the babes up in
+his arms, and laid his hands on them, and blest
+them.</p>
+
+<p>And as he and the twelve went on their way,
+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 spoke. He said that the Jews
+would beat him and put him to death, but that he
+should rise from the dead on the third day.</p>
+
+<p>None of the twelve knew what he meant by
+these things, but thought he would set up his throne
+on earth, and reign as kings do in this world, and
+that each one of them would have a place of high
+rank near his throne.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_351" id="Page_351">[351]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 476px;">
+<img src="images/i_141.jpg" width="476" height="600" alt="Jesus and children" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;SUF-FER LIT-TLE CHIL-DREN TO COME UN-TO ME.&quot;</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_352" id="Page_352">[352]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When it was known that they were to pass
+through Jer-i-cho a great crowd came out to meet
+them. And there was a rich man there who had a
+great wish to see Je-sus. And his name was Zac-che-us.
+He was so small that he was quite hid by
+the crowd, and he was in great fear that Je-sus
+would pass and he not see him. So he ran on a-head
+of the crowd; and got up in-to a tree, from
+whence he could look down at this great man of
+whom he had heard.</p>
+
+<p>And when Je-sus came to the place he raised
+his eyes and saw him, and said to him, Zac-che-us,
+make haste and come down, for to-day I must stay
+at thy house.</p>
+
+<p>And Zac-che-us came down and went with Je-sus,
+and was glad to have him as a guest. And
+there was quite a stir in the crowd, and the Jews
+found fault with Je-sus, and said that he had gone to
+be a guest with a man that was full of sin.</p>
+
+<p>But Zac-che-us told Je-sus that if he had done
+wrong he would do so no more, but would try to be
+just to all men and to lead a good and pure life.</p>
+
+<p>And when Je-sus saw that he meant what he
+said, he told Zac-che-us that God would blot out the
+sins of the past, and help him to lead a new life.
+For he said that he had come to the world to seek
+those who had gone wrong, and were like lost sheep,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_353" id="Page_353">[353]</a></span>
+and to save them and bring them to his home in
+the sky, where there was no such thing as sin or
+death.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XV.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER.&mdash;THE SUPPER AT BETHANY.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Now</span> the great feast of the Pass-o-ver was near,
+and a great crowd of Jews went up to Je-ru-sa-lem
+to keep it. It had been kept since the days of Mo-ses,
+when God smote the first-born of E-gypt, and
+passed o-ver the homes of the Jews.</p>
+
+<p>And those who were on the watch for Je-sus to
+do him harm, said, as they stood in the church, What
+think ye? will he not come to the feast? For the
+chief priests and Phar-i-sees had sent out word that
+those who knew where Je-sus was should make it
+known, that they might take him.</p>
+
+<p>Now six days be-fore the great feast, Je-sus came
+to Beth-a-ny, where Laz-a-rus was whom he had
+raised from the dead. Some of the Jews knew that
+he was there, and they came not so much to see Je-sus
+as to see Laz-a-rus.</p>
+
+<p>And the chief priests sought for a way to put
+Laz-a-rus to death, as some of the Jews, when they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_354" id="Page_354">[354]</a></span>
+saw him had faith in Je-sus, and gave their hearts to
+him.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus left Beth-a-ny to go to Je-ru-sa-lem, 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 her.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to her, What wilt thou? She said to
+him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one
+on thy right hand, and the oth-er on thy left, in thy
+king-dom.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye
+drink of the cup that I drink of, and bear all that I
+shall have to bear? They said, We can. Je-sus
+said, Ye shall drink of the cup, and bear the cross,
+but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not
+mine to give; but God gives it to those who are fit
+for it.</p>
+
+<p>When the ten heard this they were wroth with
+James and John. But Je-sus told them that those
+who sought to rule would be made to serve, and
+that he him-self came not to be served by men but
+to lay down his life for them.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 478px;">
+<img src="images/i_142.jpg" width="478" height="600" alt="Jesus and the mum" />
+<span class="caption">CHRIST AND THE MOTH-ER OF ZEB-E-DEE&#39;s CHIL-DREN.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And when they came to the Mount of Ol-ives,
+Je-sus sent two of the twelve, and said to them, Go
+to the small town which is near you, and you shall
+find there a colt tied, on which no man has rode.
+Loose him, and bring him to me, and if you should<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_356" id="Page_356">[356]</a></span>
+be asked, Why do ye this? Say that the Lord hath
+need of him, and he will be sent at once.</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 365px;">
+<img src="images/i_143.jpg" width="365" height="500" alt="Hosanna" />
+<span class="caption">CHIL-DREN IN THE TEM-PLE CRY-ING, &quot;HO-SAN-NA TO THE SON OF DA-VID.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+<p>The men did
+as Je-sus told
+them, and brought
+the young ass and
+put their robes on
+his back, and Je-sus
+sat on him.</p>
+
+<p>And as he
+went out on the
+road the crowds
+on their way to
+the feast spread
+their robes be-fore
+him, and strewed
+the way with
+green boughs
+from the palm
+trees. And they
+waved palms in
+their hands, and
+made the air ring
+with shouts of,
+Ho-san-na to the
+son of Da-vid! Blest is he that comes in the name
+of the Lord! Ho-san-na in the high-est!</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_357" id="Page_357">[357]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 479px;">
+<img src="images/i_144.jpg" width="479" height="600" alt="triumphal" />
+<span class="caption">THE EN-TRY IN-TO JER-U-SA-LEM.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_358" id="Page_358">[358]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>This was the way in which they used to meet
+and greet their kings, and they thought to please
+Je-sus so that he would pay them back when he set
+up his throne on earth. For the most of them did
+not love him in their hearts.</p>
+
+<p>As Je-sus came near to Je-ru-sa-lem he looked
+at it, and wept when he thought of the grief that the
+Jews were to know.</p>
+
+<p>And he taught each day in the church at
+Je-ru-sa-lem, but at night he went to Beth-a-ny to
+sleep.</p>
+
+<p>One morn as he was on his way back to Je-ru-sa-lem
+he saw a fig-tree by the road-side, and went to
+it to pluck some of the fruit. But he found on it
+naught but leaves. Then he said to it, Let no more
+figs grow on this tree.</p>
+
+<p>The next day when the twelve went by they saw
+that the fig-tree was dried up from its roots.</p>
+
+<p>And they thought of the words that Je-sus spoke,
+and said, How soon has the fig-tree dried up!</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus told them that they might do as much and
+more than he had done to the fig-tree, if they had
+faith in God, and sought strength from him.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 477px;">
+<img src="images/i_145.jpg" width="477" height="600" alt="weeping" />
+<span class="caption">CHRIST WEEP-ING O-VER JER-U-SA-LEM.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then he spoke to them in this way: There was
+a rich man who laid out a vine-yard, and dug a ditch
+round it to keep wild beasts and thieves a-way, and
+made a wine press, and let the place out to men who<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_360" id="Page_360">[360]</a></span>
+were to give him part of the fruit. Then he went
+off to a far land.</p>
+
+<p>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-yard, that he might bring back his share
+of the grapes.</p>
+
+<p>But the men took the ser-vant and beat him, and
+sent him off with no fruit in his hands.</p>
+
+<p>Then the one who owned the place sent once
+more, and the bad men threw stones at this ser-vant,
+and hurt him so in the head that he was like to die.
+The next one they killed, and so things went on.</p>
+
+<p>Now the rich man, who owned the place, had
+but one son, who was most dear to him. And he
+said, If I send my son to them they will be kind to
+him, and treat him well.</p>
+
+<p>But as soon as the bad men saw him they said,
+This is the heir; let us kill him, and all that is his
+shall be ours. And they took him and put him to
+death, and cast him out of the vine-yard.</p>
+
+<p>The vine-yard is the world. The one who owns
+it is God. The bad men are the Jews; he had
+taught them his laws, and they had vowed to keep
+them. When they did not do it, God sent priests
+and wise men to try and make them do what was
+right. These were stoned, and not a few were slain.</p>
+
+<p>At last he sent his own dear son, Je-sus. Now<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_361" id="Page_361">[361]</a></span>
+they meant to kill him, as the bad men had killed
+the heir of the vine-yard.</p>
+
+<p>When the Jews heard this talk they knew that
+Je-sus spoke of them, and
+they were wroth with him,
+and in haste to kill him.</p>
+
+<p>One day, on his way
+out of the tem-ple, Je-sus
+sat down near the box in
+which mon-ey was put for
+the use of the church.
+And he saw that the rich
+put in large sums. And
+there came a poor wid-ow
+who threw in two mites,
+which make a far-thing,
+or the fourth of a pen-ny.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to the
+twelve, This poor wid-ow has cast in more than all
+the rest. For they had so much they did not miss
+what they gave; while she, who was poor and in
+want, did cast in all that she had.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 255px;">
+<img src="images/i_146.jpg" width="255" height="300" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">THE WID-OW&#39;S MITE.</span>
+</div><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_362" id="Page_362">[362]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XVI.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>PARABLES.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">A</span> 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 teach.</p>
+
+<p>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-yard.</p>
+
+<p>The price was fixed at a pen-ny a day, and those
+who would work for that were sent out to the vine-yard.</p>
+
+<p>At nine o'clock in the day he went out and saw
+men in the mar-ket place who were out of work,
+and he said to them, Go ye to the vine-yard, and I
+will pay you what is right. And they went their
+way.</p>
+
+<p>He went out at noon, and at three o'clock, and
+found more men whom he sent to work in his vine-yard.
+Later in the day, when it was near six
+o'clock, he went out and saw more men, to whom he
+said, Why stand ye here all the day i-dle?</p>
+
+<p>They said to him, Be-cause no man has hired us.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_363" id="Page_363">[363]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 268px;">
+<img src="images/i_147.jpg" width="268" height="400" alt="laborers" />
+<span class="caption">LA-BOR-ERS IN THE VINE-YARD.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>He said, Go ye in-to the vine-yard, and what is
+right I will give thee.</p>
+
+<p>So when night came, the lord of the vine-yard
+had the work-men
+called in, and each one
+was paid a pen-ny.</p>
+
+<p>When the first
+came they thought
+they should have
+more, and when they
+were paid but a pen-ny
+they found fault,
+and said, These last
+have wrought but one
+hour, and thou hast
+paid them the same
+as us who have born
+the toil and heat of
+the day.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>The mas-ter said,
+Friend, I do thee no
+wrong. Didst thou
+not say thou wouldst
+work for me for a
+pen-ny a day? Take what is thine, and go thy way;
+for I have a right to do as I will with mine own.
+And the last shall be first and the first last.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_364" id="Page_364">[364]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Je-sus told them a par-a-ble of ten maids who
+went out to meet the bride-groom. For in those
+days the man who was wed brought his bride home
+at night, and some of his friends used to go out to
+meet him.</p>
+
+<p>These ten maids had lit their lamps, and gone
+out to meet the bride-groom. But he did not come
+as soon as they thought he would, and as the hours
+went on they all fell a-sleep.</p>
+
+<p>Now five of these maids were wise, and five were
+not. The wise ones had brought oil with them, so
+that if their lamps should go out they could fill them.
+Those who were not wise had no oil but that which
+was in their lamps.</p>
+
+<p>At mid-night those who were on the watch cried
+out, Lo, the bride-groom comes! Go ye out to meet
+him.</p>
+
+<p>And the five wise maids rose at once, and went
+to work to trim their lamps.</p>
+
+<p>The five who were not wise, stood by and said,
+Give us of your oil, for our lamps have gone out.</p>
+
+<p>But the wise ones said, Not so; for we have no
+more than we need. Go ye and buy of those who
+have oil to sell.</p>
+
+<p>And while they went out to buy, the bride-groom
+came, and those who were in trim went in with him,
+and the door was shut.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_365" id="Page_365">[365]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 304px;">
+<img src="images/i_148.jpg" width="304" height="400" alt="oil for lamps missing" />
+<span class="caption">THE FOOL-ISH VIR-GINS.</span>
+</div>
+<p>Then the five maids who had been out to buy
+oil came to the door, and cried out, Lord, Lord, let
+us in. But he said, I do not know you; and
+would not let them
+in.</p>
+
+<p>The bride-groom
+means Je-sus, who is
+to come at the last
+day. The ten maids
+are those who claim
+to love him, and who
+set out to meet him
+on that day. The
+oil is the love in our
+hearts, which burns
+and keeps our faith
+bright. We are to
+watch and wait for
+him, for we know
+not the day nor the
+hour when he will
+come.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>Je-sus came to
+the town of Beth-a-ny, and they made a sup-per for
+him there. In those days they did not sit at their
+meals on chairs as we do, but lay down on a couch,
+or lounge, as high as the ta-ble, so that they could<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_366" id="Page_366">[366]</a></span>
+rest on the left arm, and have the right hand and
+arm free to use.</p>
+
+<p>Mar-tha, Ma-ry, and Laz-a-rus were there, and
+while Je-sus sat at meat Ma-ry came with a flask of
+rich oil, that was worth a great price. And she broke
+the flask and poured the oil on the head of Je-sus.</p>
+
+<p>And there were some there who found fault with
+this great waste, and Ju-das&mdash;one of the twelve&mdash;said
+that the oil might have been sold for a large sum
+that would have done the poor much good.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, Blame her not. She has done a good
+work on me. For the poor you have with you
+all the time, and you may do them good when you
+choose. But you will not have me al-ways.</p>
+
+<p>Then Ju-das went to the chief priests and said,
+What will you give me if I bring you to the place
+where Je-sus is, so that you may take him? They
+said they would pay him well. And from that time
+he was on the watch to catch Je-sus a-lone.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, There was a rich man, who wore fine
+clothes, and had great feasts spread for him each
+day. And a beg-gar named Laz-a-rus lay at his
+gate, full of sores; but the rich man gave him not so
+much as a crumb. And the dogs came and licked
+his sores.</p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 357px;">
+<img src="images/i_149.jpg" width="357" height="450" alt="rich and beggar" />
+<span class="caption">THE RICH MAN AND THE BEG-GAR.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The beg-gar died, and was borne by the an-gels
+to A-bra-ham's bo-som. The rich man died and was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_367" id="Page_367">[367]</a></span>
+laid in the ground. And while in the pains of hell
+he raised his eyes and saw A-bra-ham with Laz-a-rus
+on his bo-som, and he cried and said, Fa-ther A-bra-ham,
+have mer-cy
+on me, and
+send Laz-a-rus
+that he may dip
+the tip of his fin-ger
+in wa-ter
+and cool my
+tongue, for this
+flame tor-ments
+me.</p>
+
+
+<p>But A-bra-ham
+said, Son,
+thou in thy life-time
+had thy
+good things,
+while Laz-a-rus
+was poor and
+had a hard lot.
+Now he has
+ease from all his
+pains and thou
+art in tor-ments. And be-tween us and you there
+is a great gulf; none can go from here to you, nor
+come from you to us.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_368" id="Page_368">[368]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Then the rich man said, I pray thee then send
+him to my fa-ther's house, for I have five breth-ren,
+that he may speak to them, so that they come not to
+this place of tor-ment.</p>
+
+<p>A-bra-ham said, They have Mo-ses and the
+proph-ets, let them hear them.</p>
+
+<p>And the rich man said, Nay, fa-ther A-bra-ham;
+but if one went to them from the dead they will turn
+from their sins.</p>
+
+<p>And he said to him, If they hear not Mo-ses and
+the proph-ets they will not turn from their sins
+though one rose from the dead.</p>
+
+<p>A stew-ard is one who takes charge of a house or
+lands, pays bills, hires work-men, and is the mas-ter's
+right-hand man.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, There was a rich man who had a
+stew-ard. And word was brought to him that this
+stew-ard made a bad use of his mas-ter's wealth. So
+the rich man said to him, What is this that I hear
+of thee? Let me know how thou hast done thy
+work, if thou wouldst keep thy place.</p>
+
+<p>The stew-ard said to him-self, What shall I do
+if my lord takes my place from me? I can-not dig,
+and am too proud to beg. I have made up my
+mind to do some-thing that will put me on good
+terms with the rich, so that they will not close their
+doors to me should I lose my place here as stew-ard.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_369" id="Page_369">[369]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>So he sent for all those who were in debt to his
+lord. And he said to the first, How much dost thou
+owe? And he said, A hun-dred mea-sures of oil.
+The stew-ard said,
+Take thy bill, and sit
+down and write fif-ty.</p>
+
+<p>Then said he to
+the next one, How
+much dost thou owe?
+The man said, A
+hun-dred mea-sures of
+wheat. The stew-ard
+said to him, Take thy
+bill, and write four-score.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 294px;">
+<img src="images/i_150.jpg" width="294" height="400" alt="steward" />
+<span class="caption">THE UN-JUST STEW-ARD.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And the lord
+praised the un-just
+stew-ard, for he
+thought he had done
+a wise thing.</p>
+
+<p>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 poor.</p>
+
+<p>He that is faith-ful in small things is faith-ful al-so
+in large ones. And he that is un-just in the
+least, is un-just in much more.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_370" id="Page_370">[370]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>No man can serve two mas-ters.</p>
+
+<p>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 hand.</p>
+
+<p>He said to them, A rich man had to go to a far
+land, so he called his ten ser-vants that he might
+leave his goods in their charge. To the first one he
+gave five tal-ents. A tal-ent is a large sum in sil-ver.
+To the next he gave two tal-ents; and to the third
+one. And he said to them, Make a good use of
+these gifts till I come back; and then went on his
+way.</p>
+
+<p>Then he that had five tal-ents went out and
+bought and sold and made five tal-ents more. And
+the one that had two did the same. But he that
+had one dug a hole in the earth and hid his lord's
+mon-ey.</p>
+
+<p>When the rich man came back he sent for his
+ser-vants that they might tell him what they had done
+while he was gone. So he that had had five tal-ents
+came and said, Lord, thou didst give me five tal-ents,
+and see&mdash;I have gained five more.</p>
+
+<p>His lord said to him, Well done, good and faith-ful
+ser-vant, thou hast been faith-ful o-ver a few
+things, I will make thee ru-ler o-ver ma-ny things;
+en-ter thou in-to the joy of thy lord.</p>
+
+<p>Then he that had two tal-ents came and said,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_371" id="Page_371">[371]</a></span>
+Lord, thou didst give me two tal-ents and I have
+gained two more.</p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 378px;">
+<img src="images/i_151.jpg" width="378" height="500" alt="talents" />
+<span class="caption">THE TAL-ENTS.</span>
+</div>
+<p>His lord said to him, Well done, good and faith-ful
+ser-vant,
+thou hast been
+faith-ful o-ver
+a few things,
+I will make
+thee ru-ler o-ver
+ma-ny things;
+en-ter thou in-to
+the joy of thy
+lord.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>Then he
+who had but
+the one tal-ent
+came and said,
+Lord, I knew
+that thou wert
+a hard man,
+and didst reap
+where thou
+hast not sown,
+and gleaned
+where thou
+hast not strewn; and, for fear I should lose it, I hid
+thy tal-ent in the earth, and here it is.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_372" id="Page_372">[372]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>His lord said, Thou wick-ed and la-zy ser-vant,
+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 use, so that when I came back I should have
+my own and more with it. Take there-fore the one
+tal-ent from him and give it to him that hath ten tal-ents.
+For to him that hath much shall more be giv-en;
+but from him that hath not, shall be ta-ken
+a-way all that he hath. And cast ye the use-less
+ser-vant in-to out-er dark-ness, where shall be weep-ing
+and gnash-ing of teeth.</p>
+
+<p>Christ meant to teach by this that we were to
+make use of the gifts or tal-ents that God gave
+us, and add to them as much as we could. Then
+when we die God will say to us, Well done, and
+bid us share in the joy that our lord has in store
+for us.</p>
+
+<p>If we have but one gift we must use that and
+serve God with it, or at the last day he will take that
+from us, and we shall have no part in the joy of our
+lord.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, The good news is like a king who
+made a wed-ding feast for his son. And he sent his
+ser-vants to call in those who were bid to the feast.
+But they would not come. Then he sent out more
+ser-vants to urge them to come to the wed-ding.
+But they made light of it, and went their ways, to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_373" id="Page_373">[373]</a></span>
+their farms or shops; and some fell on the king's ser-vants
+and slew them.</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 379px;">
+<img src="images/i_152.jpg" width="379" height="500" alt="wedding clothes" />
+<span class="caption">WED-DING GAR-MENT.</span>
+</div>
+<p>When the king heard of this he was wroth, and
+he said to his
+ser-vants, Go
+ye out to the
+high-ways and
+bring in to the
+wed-ding those
+ye find there.</p>
+
+<p>And the
+ser-vants did
+so, and brought
+in both bad and
+good, so there
+was no lack of
+guests at the
+wed-ding.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>When the
+king came in to
+see the guests,
+he saw there a
+man who had
+not on a wed-ding
+gar-ment.
+And he said to him, Friend, why art thou here with-out
+a wed-ding gar-ment. And the man spoke not.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_374" id="Page_374">[374]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 298px;">
+<img src="images/i_153.jpg" width="298" height="400" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">LEAV-EN.</span>
+</div>
+<p>Then said the king to the ser-vants, Bind him
+hand and foot and take him off, and cast him in-to
+out-er dark-ness. For
+ma-ny are called but
+few are cho-sen.</p>
+
+<p>God is the king
+who made the feast
+for Je-sus Christ, his
+son, to which all are
+bid. The wed-ding
+gar-ment we need is
+a true heart, full of
+love to Je-sus. The
+good news is for all,
+yet those who think
+more of this world
+than they do of heav-en,
+Christ does not
+choose for his own,
+and they are lost.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said the
+good news is like un-to leav-en or yeast, which a
+wo-man took and hid in some meal till the whole of
+it was light.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_375" id="Page_375">[375]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XVII.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>THE LORD'S SUPPER.&mdash;JESUS IN GETHSEMANE.&mdash;THE JUDAS KISS.&mdash;PETER DENIES JESUS.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Now</span> the day was come when the Jews were to
+keep the feast of the pass-o-ver. To do this each
+man took a lamb to the church, and killed it on the
+al-tar. The priest would burn the fat, but the rest of
+the lamb the man took home, and it was cooked, and
+he and his folks ate of it in the night.</p>
+
+<p>The twelve came to Je-sus to ask him at what
+place they should set out their feast. For they had
+no house or home of their own.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus sent forth two of them and said, Go ye to
+Je-ru-sa-lem, and there shall meet you a man with a
+jug of wa-ter. Go to the house where he goes, and
+say to the man who lives there, The mas-ter bids
+thee show us the room where he shall come to eat
+the feast with his friends.</p>
+
+<p>And he will show you a large room, up-stairs;
+there spread the feast.</p>
+
+<p>The men did as Je-sus told them, and the man
+showed them the room, and there they spread the
+feast.</p>
+
+<p>And at night Je-sus came with his twelve<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_376" id="Page_376">[376]</a></span>
+friends. And as they did eat, Je-sus said, There is
+one here who will give me up to the Jews.</p>
+
+<p>These words made them all feel sad.</p>
+
+<p>Now there was one of the twelve of whom Je-sus
+was most fond. His name was John. And as he
+lay with his head on Je-sus' breast he said to him,
+Lord, who is it?</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, It is he to whom I shall give the
+piece of bread I dip in the dish.</p>
+
+<p>And when he had dipped the bread he gave it
+to Ju-das. And he said to him, What is in thy
+heart to do, do at once.</p>
+
+<p>Now none of the rest knew why Je-sus spoke
+thus. But as Ju-das had charge of the bag in which
+the mon-ey was kept, some of them thought that he
+bade him buy things they were in need of, or give
+some-thing to the poor. Then Ju-das went out of
+the house where Je-sus and his friends were; and it
+was night.</p>
+
+<p>And when he had gone, Je-sus said to them, I
+shall be with you but a short time. But ere I go a
+new law I give to you&mdash;the law of love. As I have
+loved you so shall ye love each oth-er. By this shall
+all men know that ye love me.</p>
+
+<p>Pe-ter said, Lord, where dost thou go?</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, Where I go thou canst not come now,
+but thou shalt be with me by-and-by.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_377" id="Page_377">[377]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Pe-ter said, Lord, why can-not I go with thee
+now? I will lay down my life for thy sake!</p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 368px;">
+<img src="images/i_154.jpg" width="368" height="500" alt="Gethsamane" />
+<span class="caption">PRAY-ING IN THE GAR-DEN.</span>
+</div>
+<p>Je-sus said,
+I tell thee, Pe-ter,
+the cock
+shall not crow
+thrice till thou
+hast sworn
+thrice that thou
+dost not know
+me.</p>
+
+<p>And as they
+did eat Je-sus
+took the bread
+and gave
+thanks and
+broke it, and
+gave to them,
+and said, Take
+and eat.</p>
+
+<p>Then he
+took some wine
+in a cup, and
+when he had
+thanked God,
+he gave it to them and they all drank of it.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>And he told them that when he was dead they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_378" id="Page_378">[378]</a></span>
+must meet from time to time, and eat the bread and
+drink the wine in the same way that he had shown
+them; and as of-ten as they did it they were to think
+of him, and the death that he died to save men from
+their sins.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus spoke with them for some time. Then a
+hymn was sung and they all went from the house,
+and came to the Mount of Ol-ives. And they went
+to a gar-den there, known as Geth-sem-a-ne. And
+Je-sus took with him Pe-ter, James, and John, and
+said to them, Sit ye here and watch with me while
+I go and pray. And he went from them a short
+way, and knelt down and prayed. And when he
+thought how soon he was to be put to death for our
+sins, he was in such grief and pain that the sweat
+seemed like great drops of blood as it fell to the
+ground. And God sent an an-gel to calm him and
+give him strength.</p>
+
+<p>And when he rose from his knees and went back
+to where his friends were, he found that they slept.
+And he said to Pe-ter, What, couldst thou not watch
+with me one hour?</p>
+
+<p>And he went off to pray once more. And when
+he came back his friends still slept! And he left
+them and came back a third time. Then he said,
+Rise up and let us go, for the worst of my foes is
+close at hand.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_379" id="Page_379">[379]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i_155.jpg" width="600" height="439" alt="betrayal" />
+<span class="caption">JU-DAS BE-TRAY-ING CHRIST.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_380" id="Page_380">[380]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Now Ju-das had been on the watch, and knew
+when Je-sus went to the gar-den. And as it was
+dark he thought it would be the best time to give
+him up to the Jews. So he went to the chief priests
+and told them, and they sent a band of men out with
+him to take Je-sus.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus, who knew all things, knew that Ju-das
+was near, yet he did not flee.</p>
+
+<p>Ju-das had told the band that he would give them
+a sign by which they might know which was Je-sus.
+He said, The one I shall kiss, is he; take him, and
+hold him fast. Then he came to Je-sus and gave
+him a kiss.</p>
+
+<p>And the men laid their hands on Je-sus and took
+him. His friends who were near him said to him,
+Lord, shall we fight them with the sword?</p>
+
+<p>Pe-ter who had a sword struck one of the band
+and cut off his ear.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to him, Put thy sword back in its
+sheath. Could I not pray to God to send me a host
+of an-gels to fight for me and save me from death?
+But how then could the words of wise men come
+true? Then Je-sus touched the man's ear and made
+it well. And he said to those who took him, Have
+ye come out with swords and staves as if I were a
+thief, to take me? I sat from day to day and taught
+you in the church, and you did not harm me.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_381" id="Page_381">[381]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Then Pe-ter, James and John, and the rest, were
+in great fear, and fled from him.</p>
+
+<p>The men that took Je-sus led him off to the
+house of the high priest, where the scribes and
+those who had charge of the church had all met.</p>
+
+<p>Pe-ter kept up with the crowd and went in a side
+door of the house to sit by the fire. And one of the
+maids of the high priest came to him, and said, Thou
+wast with Je-sus. But he said, I know not what you
+mean.</p>
+
+<p>Then he went out on the porch and the cock
+crew. While there a maid said to those who stood
+near, This one was with Je-sus.</p>
+
+<p>And Pe-ter said once more that he did not know
+him. And the cock crew once more.</p>
+
+<p>Now it chanced that one of the high priest's men
+was a kins-man of the one whose ear Pe-ter had cut
+off. And he said to him, Did I not see thee in the
+gar-den with him?</p>
+
+<p>Pe-ter swore that he was not there, and did not
+know the man. And Je-sus gave him a look as he
+went by, that was like a stab in Pe-ter's heart. For
+then the cock crew for the third time, and it came to
+Pe-ter's mind what Je-sus had said,&mdash;Ere the cock
+crow thrice, thou shalt de-ny me thrice. And he
+went out and wept as if his heart would break, so
+great was his grief and shame.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_382" id="Page_382">[382]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XVIII.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>CHRIST BEFORE PILATE.&mdash;ON THE CROSS.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">The</span> chief court of the Jews met in a room near
+the church, and was made up of three-score and ten
+men. The high priest and chief priests were there,
+and the scribes, and head men of the church, and
+it was for them to say what should be done to those
+who broke the laws of Mo-ses; some of whom had
+to pay fines, or to be shut up in jail. 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 done.</p>
+
+<p>It was night when the Jews took Je-sus, and as
+soon as it was day they brought him in-to court to
+have him tried. The high priest said to him, Art
+thou the Christ? tell us.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, If I tell you, ye will not think I
+speak the truth.</p>
+
+<p>Then they all said, Art thou the son of God?</p>
+
+<p>And he said, I am.</p>
+
+<p>Then the high priest rent his clothes, and said,
+By his own words we can judge him. What do you
+say shall be done to him? And they all cried out,
+Let him be put to death!</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_383" id="Page_383">[383]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Then they spit in his face, and struck Je-sus with
+the palms of their hands. And they bound him and
+led him blind-fold to Pi-late's house, and told Pi-late
+some of the things he had said and done.</p>
+
+<p>Pi-late said to Je-sus, Art thou a king? Je-sus
+said, I am. But my realm is not of this world, else
+would my men have fought to set me free.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/i_156.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="trial" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;BE-HOLD THE MAN.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Pi-late said, I find no fault with this man. And
+the Jews were more fierce, and cried that his words
+had made a great stir in all the land from Gal-i-lee<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_384" id="Page_384">[384]</a></span>
+to that place. Pi-late said, if he came from Gal-i-lee
+they must take him to He-rod, who ruled that
+part of the land. And He-rod was in Je-ru-sa-lem
+at that time.</p>
+
+<p>When He-rod saw Je-sus he was glad, for he
+had heard much of him, and was in hopes to see
+some great things done by him. But when He-rod
+spoke to Je-sus, Je-sus said not one word. And the
+chief priests and scribes stood by, and cried out that
+he claimed to be king of the Jews, and the son of
+God, and had taught men that they need not keep
+the laws of Mo-ses or of Rome. These were crimes
+for which he ought to be put to death.</p>
+
+<p>So He-rod and his men of war made sport of
+Je-sus, and put on him a robe such as kings wear;
+for he had said he was a king. And then He-rod
+sent him back to Pi-late.</p>
+
+<p>Pi-late said, I find no fault in this man; nor does
+He-rod, for I sent you to him; he had done naught
+for which he should be put to death.</p>
+
+<p>Now it was the rule when this great feast was
+held, that one of those who were shut up in jail
+should be set free. And at this time there was a
+Jew there, whose name was Ba-rab-bas; and he had
+killed some one.</p>
+
+<p>Pi-late said, Which one shall I set free&mdash;Ba-rab-bas,
+or Je-sus, who is called Christ?</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_385" id="Page_385">[385]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 455px;">
+<img src="images/i_157.jpg" width="455" height="600" alt="Pilate washing" />
+<span class="caption">PI-LATE WASH-ING HIS HANDS.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_386" id="Page_386">[386]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>While Pi-late spoke, his wife sent word to him
+to do no harm to that just man, for she had had a
+strange dream a-bout him. But the chief priests
+urged the mob to ask that Ba-rab-bas be set free.</p>
+
+<p>Pi-late said, What then shall I do with Je-sus,
+who is called Christ?</p>
+
+<p>They cried out, Hang him! Hang him!</p>
+
+<p>When Pi-late saw that he could not get them to
+ask for Je-sus, he took some wa-ter and washed his
+hands in full view of the mob, and said, I am not to
+blame for the death of this just man; see ye to it.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Jews said, Let his blood be on us and
+on our chil-dren.</p>
+
+<p>But Pi-late was to blame for Je-sus' death; for he
+gave him up to the Jews that he might please them,
+and keep the place that he had.</p>
+
+<p>Now it was the law of the land that a man should
+be scourged ere he was hung. So Je-sus was stripped
+to the waist, and his hands were bound to a low
+post in front of him so as to make him stoop, and
+while he stood in this way he was struck with rods,
+or a whip of cords, till the blood burst through the
+skin.</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 383px;">
+<img src="images/i_158.jpg" width="383" height="600" alt="crown of thorns" />
+<span class="caption">BE-HOLD THE MAN.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then Pi-late's men of war led him to a room, and
+took off his own robe, and put on him one of a red
+and blue tint. Then they made a crown of thorns
+and put it on his head; and they put a reed in his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_387" id="Page_387">[387]</a></span>
+right hand.
+Then they
+bowed down
+to him, as if he
+were a king,
+and mocked at
+him and said,
+Hail, King of
+the Jews!
+And they spat
+on him, and
+took the reed
+and struck him
+on the head,
+and smote him
+with their
+hands.</p>
+
+
+<p>When Ju-das
+saw that
+Je-sus was to
+be put to death,
+he was in great
+grief to think
+he had brought
+such a fate on
+one who had
+done no wrong. And he took back to the chief priests<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_388" id="Page_388">[388]</a></span>
+the sum they had paid him, and he said to them, I have
+done a great sin to give up to you one who had done no
+wrong. They said to him, What is that to us? See
+thou to that. Then Ju-das threw down the sil-ver,
+and went out and hung him-self.</p>
+
+<p>Then the men of war took off the gay robe from
+Je-sus, and put his own clothes on him and led him
+out to put him to death.</p>
+
+<p>They met a man named Si-mon, and made him
+bear the cross. And a great crowd of men and wo-men
+went with them who wept and mourned for
+Je-sus. Je-sus told them not to weep for him, but
+for them-selves and their chil-dren, be-cause of the
+woes that were to come on the Jews.</p>
+
+<p>They brought him to a place called Cal-va-ry,
+not far from the gates of Je-ru-sa-lem. And they
+nailed his feet and hands to the cross, which was
+then set up in the ground. And all the while Je-sus
+prayed, Fa-ther for-give them, for they know not what
+they do. He meant that they did not know how
+great was their sin; nor that they had in truth put to
+death the son of God. With him they hung two
+thieves, one on his right hand, and one on his left.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 461px;">
+<img src="images/i_159.jpg" width="461" height="600" alt="carrying the cross" />
+<span class="caption">CHRIST CAR-RY-ING HIS CROSS.CHRIST CAR-RY-ING HIS CROSS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then they sat down to watch Je-sus, who hung for
+hours on the cross in great pain, ere his death came
+to him. And they took his robes and gave each
+one a share; but for his coat they cast lots. And<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_390" id="Page_390">[390]</a></span>
+at the top of the cross Pi-late had put up these words:</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Je-sus of Naz-a-reth, King of the Jews</span>.</p>
+
+<p>And the Jews as they went by shook their heads
+at him, and said, If thou be the son of God come down
+from the cross, and the chief priests and the scribes
+mocked him
+and said, His
+trust was in
+God; let God
+save him now if
+he will have
+him.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 316px;">
+<img src="images/i_160.jpg" width="316" height="300" alt="Calvary" />
+<span class="caption">CHRIST ON CAL-VA-RY.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>One of the
+thieves spoke to
+Je-sus and said,
+If thou art the
+Christ save thy-self
+and us.</p>
+
+<p>But the oth-er
+said, Dost
+thou not fear
+God when thou
+art so soon to die? It is right that we should die
+for our sins, but this man has done no wrong. And
+he said to Je-sus, Think of me when thou art on thy
+throne. Je-sus said to him, This day shalt thou be
+with me where God is.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_391" id="Page_391">[391]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 474px;">
+<img src="images/i_161.jpg" width="474" height="600" alt="on the cross" />
+<span class="caption">THE CRU-CI-FIX-ION.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_392" id="Page_392">[392]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Now there stood near the cross of Je-sus his mo-ther,
+and John&mdash;the one of the twelve most dear to
+him. And he bade John take care of his mo-ther,
+and told her to look on John as her son. And John
+took her to his own home to take care of her and
+give her all that she had need of.</p>
+
+<p>From the sixth to the ninth hour&mdash;that is, from
+twelve to three o'clock&mdash;the sky was dark in all the
+land. And Je-sus thought that God had turned his
+face from him. And he cried out with a loud voice
+O God! O God! why hast thou left me?</p>
+
+<p>One of the men near thought he was in pain, and
+he took a sponge and dipped it in the gall, and put
+it up on a reed to his mouth, so that Je-sus might
+drink. Je-sus wet his lips with the drink that was
+to ease his pain, then spoke once more, bowed his
+head and died.</p>
+
+<p>Then the veil which hung in the church, in front
+of the ark, was torn in two; the earth shook; the
+rocks were split; the graves gave up their dead, and
+those who, while they lived, had served the Lord,
+rose and came out of their graves and went in-to Je-ru-sa-lem
+and were seen there.</p>
+
+<p>When those who had kept watch of Je-sus as he
+hung on the cross, saw these things that were done,
+they were in great fear, and said, There is no doubt
+that this man was the son of God.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_393" id="Page_393">[393]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 371px;">
+<img src="images/i_162.jpg" width="371" height="500" alt="taking Him down" />
+<span class="caption">LAY-ING IN THE TOMB.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_394" id="Page_394">[394]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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 graves.
+For it would not
+do for them to
+hang on the cross
+on the day of rest.
+The men on
+guard broke the
+legs of the thieves
+to kill them, and
+thrust a spear in-to
+Je-sus' side to
+make sure that he
+was dead.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>Now there was
+near Cal-va-ry a
+gar-den, in which
+was a tomb in
+which no one had
+been laid. It was
+cut in a rock, and
+was owned by a
+rich man&mdash;Jo-seph of Ar-i-ma-the-a. He came to Pi-late
+and begged that he might lay Je-sus in this grave,
+and Pi-late told him to do so. And Jo-seph took<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_395" id="Page_395">[395]</a></span>
+Je-sus down from the cross, and wrapped him in the
+fine lin-en he had brought, and laid him in the tomb,
+and put a great stone at the door, and left him there.</p>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 350px;">
+<img src="images/i_163.jpg" width="350" height="500" alt="Sapphira dies" />
+<span class="caption">DEATH OF SAP-PHI-RA.</span>
+</div>
+<p>The chief priests went to Pi-late and said, It has
+come to our minds that Je-sus said that he would
+rise on the third day, so we pray thee to have men
+watch the tomb lest some of his friends come and steal
+him, and then go and say that he rose from the dead.</p>
+
+<p>Pi-late said, Ye have your own watch-men. Go
+and make it as sure as you can.</p>
+
+<p>So they went and put a seal of wax on the great
+tomb, and set men to watch by the tomb.</p>
+
+<p>But that night God sent down an an-gel, and he
+came and rolled back the stone from the door, and
+sat on it. His face shone like fire, and his robes
+were white as snow. And the watch-men shook for
+fear of him, and had no more strength than dead men.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XIX.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>JESUS LEAVES THE GRAVE.&mdash;APPEARS TO MARY.&mdash;STEPHEN STONED.&mdash;PAUL'S LIFE, AND DEATH.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the first day of the week, as soon as it was light,
+three wo-men, friends of Je-sus, came to the tomb with
+the gums and spice they used to lay out their dead.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_396" id="Page_396">[396]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And they said as they went, Who shall roll the
+stone a-way from the door of the tomb?</p>
+
+<p>And lo, when they came near they found that
+the great stone had been rolled a-way. And when
+they went in the tomb, they saw an an-gel clothed in
+a long white robe, and they shook with fear.</p>
+
+<p>He said to them, Have no fear. Ye seek Je-sus,
+who was put to death on the cross. He is not here,
+though this is the place where they laid him. Go
+tell his friends that he has ris-en from the dead, and
+bid them go to Gal-i-lee where they shall see him.</p>
+
+<p>Two of the wo-men from the tomb, with fear and
+yet with joy, ran to tell the good news.</p>
+
+<p>But Ma-ry Mag-da-le-ne stood out-side the tomb
+and wept. And as she stooped down and looked in
+the tomb, she saw two an-gels in white, the one at
+the head, the oth-er at the foot of the place where
+Je-sus had lain.</p>
+
+<p>And they said to her, Why dost thou weep? She
+said, Be-cause they have ta-ken my Lord a-way, and
+I know not where they have laid him. And when
+she had thus said, she drew back and saw that Je-sus
+stood near, yet knew not that it was he.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to her, Ma-ry! She turned and said
+to him, Mas-ter!</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said, Touch me not, for I have not yet gone
+up to my Fa-ther; but go tell the breth-ren what
+thou hast seen and heard.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_397" id="Page_397">[397]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And Ma-ry told them that she had seen the
+Lord, and all that he had said to her.</p>
+
+<p>And Je-sus was seen two or three times on the
+earth af-ter his
+death, and he came
+and spoke to those
+who were to teach
+and preach as he
+had taught them.
+But Thom-as was
+not with the rest
+when the Lord
+came. And when
+they told him that
+they had seen the
+Lord, he said, I
+doubt it. But if I
+shall see in his hands
+the marks of the
+nails, and thrust my
+hand in the wound
+the spear made in
+his side, then shall
+I know that it is he.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 347px;">
+<img src="images/i_164.jpg" width="347" height="500" alt="Risen" />
+<span class="caption">HE IS RIS-EN.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>In eight days these friends met in a room to talk
+and pray. Thom-as was with them and the door
+was shut. Then came Je-sus and stood in their<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_398" id="Page_398">[398]</a></span>
+midst and said, Peace be un-to you. Then said he
+to Thom-as, Reach here and touch my hands, and
+put thy hand in my side, and doubt no more that I
+have ris-en from the dead.</p>
+
+<p>When Thom-as heard his voice and knew that it
+was Je-sus, he said, My Lord and my God. Je-sus
+said to him, Thom-as, be-cause thou hast seen me,
+thou hast faith in me; blest are they that have not
+seen me, and yet put their trust in me.</p>
+
+<p>At the end of five weeks he met with these friends
+at Je-ru-sa-lem. And when he had had a talk with
+them he led them out as far as Beth-a-ny. And he
+raised his hands and blest them, and as he stood
+thus he went up in a cloud out of their sight.</p>
+
+<p>When the day of Pen-te-cost, or har-vest feast,
+had come, Pe-ter, and the rest of those whom Je-sus
+had taught, were all in one place.</p>
+
+<p>And all at once there came the great rush of a
+strong wind that filled the room where they were.
+And tongues of fire came down on each one of them,
+and their hearts were filled with a strange pow-er,
+and they spoke all known tongues.</p>
+
+<p>And there were men there from all parts of the
+East, and when they heard these men of Gal-i-lee
+speak in their own tongues of the works of God, they
+were in a maze. And some said, These men are
+full of new wine.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_399" id="Page_399">[399]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 472px;">
+<img src="images/i_165.jpg" width="472" height="600" alt="Mary sees" />
+<span class="caption">CHRIST AP-PEAR-ING TO MA-RY.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_400" id="Page_400">[400]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>But Pe-ter stood up and said the men were not
+drunk, but that this strange gift of speech was one of
+the signs that God had told the Jews that he would
+send on the earth. And Pe-ter preached so well to
+the crowd that not a few left the ranks of sin and
+gave their hearts to Christ, and to good works.</p>
+
+<p>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 news. They gave alms
+to the poor, healed the sick, and did all the good
+that they could.</p>
+
+<p>One of them, named Ste-phen, stood up to preach
+and to tell the Jews what God had done for them,
+and to try to make them give up their sins. He
+spoke in plain words, and said, The Jews of old put
+to death those who were sent to tell them that Je-sus
+was to come; and now you have slain the Just
+One him-self.</p>
+
+<p>When the Jews heard this they were full of rage,
+and gnashed their teeth at him like wild beasts. But
+he raised his eyes to the sky, and saw a great light
+there. And he said, I see Je-sus on the right hand
+of God.</p>
+
+<p>Then they cried out with a loud voice, and
+stopped their ears so that they could not hear his
+words; and they brought him out of the town, and
+stoned him.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_401" id="Page_401">[401]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 482px;">
+<img src="images/i_166.jpg" width="482" height="600" alt="Ascension" />
+<span class="caption">THE AS-CEN-SION TO HEAV-EN.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_402" id="Page_402">[402]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>And Ste-phen knelt down, and asked God to
+for-give them for this sin. And then he died.</p>
+
+<p>The men who threw the stones at Ste-phen took
+off their cloaks, that they might have the free use of
+their arms, and laid them at the feet of a young
+man named Saul.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/i_167.jpg" width="500" height="300" alt="Damascus" />
+<span class="caption">HOU-SES ON THE WALLS OF DA-MAS-CUS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now Saul had done much harm to the good
+cause, and was in a great rage with those who were
+friends of Je-sus and taught his truths. So he went
+to the high priest at Je-ru-sa-lem and asked to be sent
+to Da-mas-cus, that if he found friends of Je-sus there
+he might bind them with cords and bring them back<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_404" id="Page_404">[404]</a></span>
+to Je-ru-sa-lem. And the high priest gave him notes
+to those who had charge of the church-es in Da-mas-cus,
+and he set out for that place. But when he
+came near the town there shone round him a great
+light, and he was in such fear that he fell to the
+ground. And a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why
+dost thou hate me and hunt me down?</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 478px;">
+<img src="images/i_168.jpg" width="478" height="592" alt="Holy Spirit" />
+<span class="caption">THE COM-ING OF THE HO-LY GHOST.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Saul said, Who art thou, Lord? The voice said,
+I am Je-sus, whom thou dost use so ill.</p>
+
+<p>Then Saul shook with fear and said, Lord, what
+wilt thou have me to do? The Lord said, Rise, and
+go in-to the town, and it shall be shown thee what
+thou must do. And the men who were with him
+stood dazed and dumb, for they heard the voice, but
+could see no man.</p>
+
+<p>When Saul rose from the earth he could not see,
+for the light had made him blind; and those who
+were with him led him by the hand in-to Da-mas-cus.
+And for three days he had no sight; and he
+could not eat nor drink.</p>
+
+<p>But God sent An-a-ni-as, a good man, to touch
+his eyes, and his sight and his strength came back.
+And his heart was changed, and there was no man
+who could preach as Paul did, by which name he
+was now known.</p>
+
+<p>For a while he went with Bar-na-bas. Then he
+took Si-las with him, and they made both friends and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_405" id="Page_405">[405]</a></span>
+foes. The Jews at Phil-ip-pi found fault with them,
+beat them and put them in jail, and bade the jail-er
+keep them safe. So he made their feet fast in the
+stocks&mdash;which were
+great blocks of wood
+with holes in them.</p>
+
+<p>At mid-night Paul
+and Si-las prayed, and
+those in the jail heard
+them. Then all at once
+there came a great
+earth-quake which
+shook the jail, and the
+doors flew o-pen, and
+the chains fell from
+those who were bound.
+The jail-er woke from
+his sleep, and when he
+saw that not a door was
+shut, he feared he
+would be put to death
+if those in the jail had
+fled. So he drew his
+sword to kill him-self. But Paul cried to him with
+a loud voice, Do thy-self no harm, for we are all here.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 262px;">
+<img src="images/i_169.jpg" width="262" height="400" alt="Saul" />
+<span class="caption">THE CON-VER-SION OF ST. PAUL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then the jail-er brought a light, and came to the
+cell where Paul and Si-las were, and he knelt there,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_406" id="Page_406">[406]</a></span>
+and cried out, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
+And they said, Have faith in the Lord Je-sus Christ,
+and thou shalt be saved.</p>
+
+<p>That same hour of the night the jail-er took Paul
+and Si-las and washed their wounds, and brought
+them food, and his heart was full of joy, for he and
+all in his house were made Chris-tians, and God
+would for-give their past sins.</p>
+
+<p>The next morn the chief men at Phil-ip-pi sent
+word to the jail-er to let those men go, for the Jews
+found they had no right to beat Paul. And they
+feared the law, and begged him to leave the town.</p>
+
+<p>Paul went to A-thens, the chief town of Greece,
+which was full of false gods, to whom al-tars had been
+built. But there was one al-tar on which were the
+words, <span class="smcap">To the Un-known God</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Those who built it felt that there was one God of
+whom they had not been taught, and this al-tar was
+for him.</p>
+
+<p>Paul taught in A-thens, both in-doors and out-doors.
+And when the wise men heard that he told
+of Je-sus, and that we were all to rise from the dead,
+they brought him to Mars' Hill, where the chief
+court was held. And they said to him, Tell us now
+what the good news is. For thou dost speak strange
+words, and we would like to know what they mean.</p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 377px;">
+<img src="images/i_170.jpg" width="377" height="500" alt="leaving tyre" />
+<span class="caption">ST. PAUL LEAV-ING TYRE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Paul told them there was but one true God, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_407" id="Page_407">[407]</a></span>
+they must serve him and give up their sins, and
+put their trust in Je-sus, and they would all be
+saved at the last
+day.</p>
+
+<p>Then Paul
+went to Co-rinth,
+where he spent
+some time. At
+the end of some
+years he came
+back to Je-ru-sa-lem.
+And the
+Lord's friends
+met him, and
+were glad to see
+his face once
+more. And he
+told them where
+he had been,
+and how God
+had helped him.</p>
+
+
+<p>And Paul
+went up to the
+church. And
+while he was there some Jews from A-si-a saw him and
+took hold of him, and cried out, Men of Is-ra-el, help
+us. This is the man who has taught that we were<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_408" id="Page_408">[408]</a></span>
+not to do as Mo-ses told us, nor to come here to
+pay our vows. And he has brought with him Gen-tiles
+whom it is a crime to let come in-to our church.</p>
+
+<p>Soon all the town was in an up-roar, and Paul
+was brought in-to the church, and the gates that led
+to the courts were all shut. As they were a-bout to
+kill him, some one went and told the chief who had
+charge of a band of Ro-man troops, and dwelt near
+the great church to guard it. And he and some of
+his men ran down in the midst of the crowd, who, as
+soon as they saw them, ceased to beat Paul.</p>
+
+<p>The chief took Paul from them, and had him
+bound with chains, and asked who he was and what
+he had done. Some cried this, and some that, and
+no one could tell just what they said.</p>
+
+<p>And the chief led him off to his own house, to
+save Paul's life, and the mob brought up the rear,
+and cried out, A-way with him! Kill him! The
+next day the chief let Paul go, and sent him to Fe-lix,
+who ruled in Ju-de-a. And here he was shut
+up in jail, and was there for two years or more. He
+told them who he was, and why he had gone to Je-ru-sa-lem,
+and said he had done no wrong that he
+knew of; though some might say it was wrong for
+him to preach that the dead should rise from their
+graves at the last day.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 570px;">
+<img src="images/i_171.jpg" width="570" height="500" alt="at Athens" />
+<span class="caption">ST. PAUL PREACH-ING AT A-THENS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Fe-lix sent the Jews off, and bade the jail-er let
+Paul walk in and out as he chose, and see all the
+friends who might call. He was there for two years,
+and at the end of
+that time Fes-tus
+took Fe-lix's
+place.</p>
+
+<p>At last he
+was sent to Rome
+to be tried be-fore
+the Ce-sar.
+While on the
+sea a fierce wind
+sprang up, and
+beat the ship so
+that the men
+could not steer.
+And they were
+in great fear lest
+they should
+drown. But
+Paul told them
+not to fear, for
+though the ship
+might be a wreck
+there would be no loss of life. At the end of two
+weeks the ship struck the isle of Mal-ta, and the men
+swam to the shore on bits of boards.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 372px;">
+<img src="images/i_172.jpg" width="372" height="500" alt="shipwreck" />
+<span class="caption">ST. PAUL&#39;S SHIP-WRECK.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_410" id="Page_410">[410]</a><br /><a name="Page_411" id="Page_411">[411]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i_173.jpg" width="600" height="395" alt="in Athens" />
+<span class="caption">MEET-ING PLACE IN A-THENS.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_412" id="Page_412">[412]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Paul staid here for three months, and then went
+to Rome, where he dwelt for two years or more, and
+taught men to trust in the Lord and to do right.</p>
+
+<p>We are not told when or how he died.</p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<h2>CHAPTER XX.</h2>
+
+<div class='chaptertitle'>WHAT JOHN SAW WHILE ON THE ISLE OF PATMOS.&mdash;THE GREAT WHITE THRONE.&mdash;THE LAND OF LIGHT.</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">John</span> wrote the last book in the New Tes-ta-ment.
+It is called Rev-e-la-tion; and that means
+that it tells what no one else but John knew.</p>
+
+<p>John was sent to the lone isle of Pat-mos by one
+of the bad Em-pe-rors of Rome, who would not let him
+preach or teach the truths that Christ taught.</p>
+
+<p>While he was at Pat-mos Je-sus came to him in
+a dream, and showed him all the things that he wrote
+of in this book.</p>
+
+<p>John says: I heard a great voice like a trum-pet,
+and as I turned to see who it was that spoke to me,
+I saw Je-sus clothed in a robe that fell to his feet,
+and was held at the waist by a belt of gold. And
+when I saw him I fell at his feet like one dead. And
+he laid his right hand on me, and said, Fear not; I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_413" id="Page_413">[413]</a></span>
+am he who died on the cross, but who now lives to
+die no more.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 427px;">
+<img src="images/i_174.jpg" width="427" height="500" alt="Patmos" />
+<span class="caption">PAT-MOS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Je-sus told John to write down all that he saw,
+and to send it to the church-es for which it was meant.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_414" id="Page_414">[414]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Then John saw a door o-pen in the sky, and a
+voice said to him, Come up here, and I will show
+thee what will take place in the time to come. And
+he heard the an-gels sing songs of praise to Je-sus,
+whom they called the Lamb that was slain. 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 world. And he was shown,
+too, how the Lord would save them from their foes,
+so that at last no one could hurt or harm them.</p>
+
+<p>Then John saw a great white throne in heav-en,
+and Je-sus sat on it. And the dead rose from their
+graves, and came and stood near the throne to be
+judged. All the things that they had done while on
+the earth were put down in the books out of which
+they were judged. And if their names were not in
+the Book of Life they were cast in-to the lake of fire.</p>
+
+<p>When this great day was past, John saw new
+skies and a new earth, for the old earth and skies had
+been burnt up, And he saw the New Je-ru-sa-lem
+come down from the skies, and heard a voice say
+that God would come and live with men.</p>
+
+<p>Round the New Je-ru-sa-lem, which was built of
+gold, was a high wall with twelve gates, three on each
+side. At each gate was an an-gel to guard it. In
+the walls were all kinds of rich and rare gems, and
+its twelve gates were made of pearls.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_415" id="Page_415">[415]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>There was no need of the sun or the moon, for
+God was there and Je-sus, and they made it light.
+And those whom
+Je-sus had saved&mdash;Jews
+and Gen-tiles,
+rich and poor&mdash;were
+to come
+and live in it.
+And the gates
+should not be
+shut, for there
+will be no night
+there. And none
+but those whose
+names are in the
+Book of Life shall
+go in-to it.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 352px;">
+<img src="images/i_175.jpg" width="352" height="500" alt="Jesus and candlesticks" />
+</div>
+
+<p>And John saw
+a pure riv-er called
+the wa-ter of life.
+On each side of
+it grew the tree
+of life that bore
+twelve kinds of
+fruit, which were ripe each month. And those
+who dwell in that land of light, and eat the fruits
+of the tree of life, and drink of the wa-ter of life,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_416" id="Page_416">[416]</a></span>
+shall see the Lord's face and be with him and
+serve him.</p>
+
+<p>He will wipe all tears from their eyes, and there
+shall be no more death, nor grief, nor pain.</p>
+
+<p>Je-sus said to John, Blest are they who keep
+God's laws and do his will, that they may pass
+through the gates to his bright home on high.</p>
+
+<div class='center'>THE END.</div><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_417" id="Page_417">[417]</a></span></p>
+
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+
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+Frequently the printer made an mistake and forgot to hyphenate all or part of a word. This has
+been corrected where found.</p>
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading, by 
+Josephine Pollard
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading
+       The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood
+
+Author: Josephine Pollard
+
+Release Date: April 12, 2012 [EBook #39431]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YOUNG FOLKS' BIBLE ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Heather Clark, Emmy and the Online Distributed
+Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
+produced from images generously made available by The
+Internet Archive)
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+
+
+[Illustration: CHRIST the good Sheperd
+
+"HE WILL CARRY THE LAMBS IN HIS BOSOM."]
+
+
+YOUNG FOLKS' BIBLE IN WORDS OF EASY READING:
+
+THE SWEET STORIES OF GOD'S WORD IN THE LANGUAGE OF CHILDHOOD
+
+AND
+
+In the Beautiful Delineations of Christian Art.
+
+THE WHOLE DESIGNED TO
+
+IMPRESS THE MIND AND HEART OF THE YOUNGEST READERS, AND KINDLE A GENUINE
+LOVE FOR THE BOOK OF BOOKS.
+
+By
+
+JOSEPHINE POLLARD, Author of "History of the Old Testament," "History of
+the New Testament," etc., etc.
+
+
+    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
+    REV. W. H. MILBURN, D. D.,
+    TO WHICH IS ADDED
+    THE CHILD AND THE BIBLE,
+
+    By PROF. DAVID SWING,
+
+    AND
+
+    AN ADDRESS TO CHILDREN:
+
+    THE BIBLE THE BOOK FOR THE YOUNG,
+
+    By REV. JOHN H. BARROWS, D. D.
+
+
+
+    NEARLY 200 STRIKING ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS AND WORLD-FAMOUS
+    MASTER-PIECES OF SACRED ART,
+
+    AND WITH
+
+    MAGNIFICENT COLORED PLATES.
+
+
+
+    CHICAGO AND NEW YORK:
+    R. S. Peale & Company.
+    1890.
+
+
+
+
+    Copyright
+    By JOSEPH L. BLAMIRE.
+    1888.
+
+    Copyright
+    By R. S. PEALE & CO.
+    1889.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+The word Bible is from the Greek, and means THE BOOK. It is made up of
+several small books, and when bound in two parts is known as the Old
+Testament and the New Testament. A Testament is a will; and the Bible is
+God's will made for man's good, and for his guide through life. The Old
+Testament tells of God's love and care for the Jews, and His thought of
+Christ can be traced through all its pages. There is a good deal in the
+Bible that a child cannot understand, and the queer names make it very
+hard reading.
+
+It has been the Author's aim to tell the story simply, and in Bible
+language, so that the little ones can read it themselves, and learn to
+love and prize it as the best of all books.
+
+                                                            J. P.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION.
+
+BY REV. WILLIAM HENRY MILBURN, D. D.
+
+
+NO man of his time filled a larger space in the public eye of this
+country than John Randolph of Roanoke. His eccentricities, audacity and
+brilliancy,--his pride of birth and race, fearlessness and
+self-assertion,--his incisive and trenchant speeches set off with
+sparkling wit, keen satire, fierce invective, clothed in perfect
+English, and uttered with the style of a master, his sharp criticisms of
+the faults and short-comings of his fellow-Congressmen, which gained for
+him the title, "schoolmaster of Congress," together with his political
+consistency and fitfulness of temper, invested all his movements and
+sayings with a peculiar charm for the people. In his earliest years he
+had been carefully taught by his beautiful mother, the Creed, the Lord's
+Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and many parts of God's Word, until he had
+them by heart, and yet, in his haughty youth and early manhood he strove
+to set at naught these teachings: furnished himself with a "whole body
+of infidelity," as he styled his collection of the writings of Voltaire
+and other French authors, as well as British, who strove to abolish the
+Bible, 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 Life, and to jeer with flout and scoff at all
+he had learned from his mother's lips. But later on he confessed, with
+heart-breaking sobs and bitter tears, that with all his arrogance and
+insolence, his stern resolve to become and continue a Deist, he had
+never been able to put aside for a single day or night the lessons
+taught him by his mother, and that the hallowed forms of sound words,
+learned on her lap or at her knee, had dwelt with him, and were ever
+sounding in his ears, to admonish, counsel and reprove. There have been
+few more pathetic scenes than that in which Randolph came to die; a
+gaunt old man, old before his time; worn out by misery, shrivelled and
+haggard, sitting upright in his bed, covered by a blanket, even his head
+enveloped and his hat on top of it; unutterable despair looking out at
+his eyes, his pinched lips and squeaking voice uttering, "Let me see it;
+get a dictionary; find me the word Remorse." A dictionary could not be
+found. "Write it; I must see it," he almost shrieked with failing voice.
+The word was written on his visiting card below his name; he demanded
+that it should be written above as well. The card was handed to him.
+"Remorse, John Randolph of Roanoke, Remorse." With horror in his face
+and that card in his hand, his eyes staring at the word, he breathed his
+last. From that mournful death-bed seemed to come floating the solemn
+words, "Take fast hold of instruction; keep her; let her not go, for she
+is thy life," and "He that sinneth against wisdom wrongeth his own
+soul."
+
+Long centuries ago, a young man of aristocratic birth, handsome person,
+polished manners, brilliant and highly cultivated intellect, was
+walking, on a day in the reign of the Emperor Julian, by the bank of the
+river Orontes, not far from the stately city of Antioch, the Paris of
+that age,--and saw something floating in the stream. The branch of a
+tree enabled him to drag it ashore; it proved to be a copy of the sacred
+Scriptures; Julian, the mad master of the world, had issued an edict,
+annexed to which were heavy penalties, that all copies of that book
+should be destroyed. The young man who drew the manuscript to shore had
+been taught the lessons of that volume from a child, by his pious
+mother, Anthusa; but he had thrown off the yoke of his mother's faith;
+had become a devotee of heathen philosophy, poetry and rhetoric, and at
+the same time steeped himself in the licentious pleasures and
+dissipations of the Grove of Daphne, the Hippodrome and Theatre, and
+resolved that "the man Christ Jesus should not reign over him." He
+opened the parchment, some words on the page caught his eye; they were
+familiar, yet shone with a new light and were armed with irresistible
+power: he read on; his mother's prayers were answered; he embraced the
+truth, bowed his neck to the yoke he had foresworn, and the volume he
+rescued from the flood became a treasure-trove for the world,--through
+fifteen centuries alike in the east and west,--that man has been known
+as St. John Chrysostom, the "Mouth of Gold," one of the most saintly and
+eloquent preachers, whose life, genius, sufferings and death for
+conscience's sake adorned the history of mankind.
+
+Not far from the same time, a young man bathed in tears lay writhing in
+agony under a fig tree in the garden of his house at Milan. His devout
+mother, Monica, in their Numidian home, had taught him the way of life
+written in God's Word; but as he grew to manhood he strove to shake off
+the influence and authority of her instruction; became a libertine,
+reached forth to grasp the crown of heathen eloquence and learning, and
+for more than ten years wrought steadily to undo the sacred work his
+mother had performed for him as a child. But the lesson she had taught
+him lay deeper than his surging passions, imperious intellect, and
+haughty will, and because of their power over him he could find no rest
+night or day. He journeyed to Carthage, Rome, Milan, the chief cities of
+the western world, to study art and eloquence, to drench his soul with
+the pleasures of sense and lay the ghost of his disquiet; but in vain.
+In his anguish under the fig tree he heard, or seemed to hear, again and
+again, "Take it up and read, Take it up and read." Springing to his
+feet, he ran to a friend near by who was reading the Word. Seizing the
+volume, his eyes rested on the words, "Let us walk honestly as in the
+day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness,
+not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make
+not provisions for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof." The
+birth-pangs of his conversion were ended; he found peace in believing;
+and that incident makes an era in the history of the world, for that man
+was none other than Saint Augustine, the influence of whose writings has
+swayed with more might than that of an imperial sceptre the destinies of
+western Christendom for ages. "Therefore, whosoever heareth these
+sayings of mine and doeth them," saith the Lord, "I will liken him unto
+a wise man which built his house upon a rock; and the rain descended,
+and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house; and it
+fell not, for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth
+these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a
+foolish man which built his house upon the sand; and the rains
+descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that
+house and it fell, and great was the fall of it." Woe to Randolph! he
+heard and would not, and his house fell, and great was the fall of it.
+Mankind with one voice calls Augustine and Chrysostom blessed; they
+heard, obeyed, and their houses stand forever; they were built upon the
+rock. "Their Rock is not as our Rock, our enemies themselves being
+judges" was the boast of Israel at an early day. With how much fuller
+emphasis may Christendom utter it to-day. Compare India with Britain,
+China with the United States, and after all other forces are measured
+and allowed, it will be found that the significant and self-renewing
+causes for the superiority of the western nations over the eastern are
+the presence, authority and influence of the Old and New Testament. "And
+he shewed me a pure river of water of life clear as crystal proceeding
+out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of
+it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which
+bare twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month; and the
+leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."
+
+In this beautiful book, Miss Pollard, with admirable tact and skill, has
+made a path by which the children may draw near to that river and drink
+of the water of life; and the artists whose genius has been laid under
+such effective contribution by the liberality of the publisher, will
+help the little ones to gather the leaves and pluck the fruit of that
+tree.
+
+Every home in the land blessed by the presence of boys and girls will be
+illumined and enriched by this volume; every mother who strives to train
+her children "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord" will be
+signally helped by its ministry.
+
+The letter-press will quicken the understanding and attune the ear, 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 mankind; soft and great as the summer midnight, as
+the world with the seas and stars."
+
+No man's education can be complete, no human life can have its full
+store of flowers and fruits, which is not begun, continued and ended in
+the ever deepening study and love of the articulate word of God.
+
+I cannot better close this introduction than with this remarkable
+passage, modified to suit my purpose. "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 character. It lives like a music that can never
+be forgotten, like the sound of church bells which the reader hardly
+knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things
+rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor
+of national seriousness. The memory of the dead passes into it. The
+potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped into its phrases. The
+power of all the man's griefs and trials are hidden beneath its words.
+It is the representative of his best moments; and all that there has
+been about him of soft and gentle and pure and penitent and good, speaks
+to him forever out of his English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which
+doubt has never dimmed and controversy never soiled. It has been to him
+all along as the silent, yet oh, how intelligible! voice of his guardian
+angel, and in the length and breadth of the land there is not a
+Christian, with one spark of religiousness about him, whose spiritual
+Biography is not in his Saxon Bible."
+
+    WASHINGTON, April, 1889.
+
+
+
+
+The Child and the Bible.
+
+BY PROF. DAVID SWING.
+
+
+THAT reading and study are very imperfect which do not bring to all our
+young people a knowledge of the general contents of the Bible. 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 periods. It contains the history, the wisdom, the morality,
+the piety and the hope of that part of the human race that made religion
+the chief aim of the nation and the individual. The Hebrew people was
+set apart for the special task of carrying forward the idea of God. 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 Psalms. 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 world.
+
+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 Nile, or a State which, like
+Babylonia, might live only for luxury, or which, like Greece, might live
+only for the fine arts, or which, like Rome, might find a reason of
+being in wars of conquest. Divinely led, 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 religion. Israel stands
+as the wonder of the past, 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
+presence. With what success it achieved its task may be learned from
+reading the meditations in Job and the Psalms, and from the lofty
+rhapsodies of Isaiah and Malachi. 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 century, a
+book is composed at which to scoff is a proof of a weak or a wicked
+mind, 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 death.
+
+Much that is valuable in these two testaments is recorded in events or
+in parables, and for all young minds and for nearly all older
+intellects, the doctrines, the alarms, the benedictions, the promises,
+the hopes are treasured up in incidents which might be thrown upon
+canvas or carved out of marble. Faith is seen in the picture of Abraham;
+patriotism, courage, honor, piety in Moses; justice in the story of
+Lot's wife; eternal friendship in Ruth; reckless ambition in Absalom;
+resignation in Job; faithfulness in Daniel; while in the New Testament
+the pictures offered in the Christ, the Marys, the Johns and St. Paul
+have been too many and too great for art to equal.
+
+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
+religion. When that gifted writer who composed the hymn "Nearer my God
+to Thee" sat down to her task, what an imperfection would have marked
+her poem had she not known of Jacob's stony pillow and beautiful dream!
+
+    Though like a wanderer,
+      The sun gone down,
+    Darkness be over me,
+      My rest a stone.
+
+And the two following stanzas would have been wanting; nor is it
+probable that the writer, although a woman most gifted, could have found
+in all literature any compensation for her loss and our loss. In the
+"Battle-Hymn of the Republic," the eloquent writer shows in her first
+line her memory of Simeon, and through his eyes she looked and said:
+"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," and in the
+last verse, back comes one of the most beautiful incidents in the New
+Testament: "In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the
+sea."
+
+Thus have thousands of years, in all, acted as the great time-space for
+attaching the Hebrew and Christian mind and heart to the persons and
+incidents found in the Holy Scriptures. Not to know all these
+Heaven-sent emblems of virtue, wisdom, piety and salvation is not only
+not to be a Christian, but it is to stand afar off from the honor of
+even a common education and the most needful culture.
+
+For the youth of our country Josephine Pollard, a wonderful friend of
+all those who are living their early years, and as good a writer as she
+is a friend, has detached from the Bible this volume of historic
+incidents, and while they make a continuous record of the old and the
+new dispensations, they are separated from that which is too abstract to
+detain and impress the youngest readers. To these interesting events she
+has made the engraver add his art, and the picture of the pencil comes
+to help the picture more hidden in the words. While Christ is speaking
+of the "lost sheep" the picture reveals the lonely mountains and the
+lamb missed from the flock. While the great Teacher is speaking of the
+foolish virgins, the picture appears of the thoughtless ones attempting
+in vain to find oil for their lamps. Thus the pictures of history
+combine with the suggestive sketches of the artist and engraver, to
+make, indeed, a Bible for Young People. The authoress came to her task
+with rare fitness, and while the young folks are reading her volume they
+will find not only the religious truths they all need, but they will
+also find the simplicity and power of their own English language.
+
+
+
+
+AN ADDRESS TO CHILDREN.
+
+BY JOHN H. BARROWS, D.D.
+
+THE BIBLE THE BOOK FOR THE YOUNG.
+
+
+GOD once said: "And thou shalt teach them diligently to thy children."
+The whole Bible, Old Testament and New, was meant to be taught to the
+boys and girls all over the world. When I was in Egypt, fifteen years
+ago, I lay one beautiful moonlight night on the white sand of an island
+in the river Nile. It was an island away up near the equator, and as I
+lay there I saw beautiful trees with their long, leafy branches above
+me; I saw green fields reaching out on either side; I heard the old
+river Nile rippling over the stones in its bed; 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 river, and of all the people who
+had gotten their bread from the waters of the Nile, which, covering the
+sand of the desert, make it fertile and fruitful, and I blessed God for
+the Nile. Where does it come from? You have learned that the Nile
+springs from the snows of very high mountains away up in Abyssinia, and
+from two immense lakes in the center of Africa, and it carries the
+waters from these mountains and lakes down through Egypt, and turns a
+desert into a garden.
+
+But there is another river more wonderful than the river of old Egypt.
+It flows down from God out of heaven, and flows over this world, and
+brings with it all that is beautiful and healthful and good. The waters
+of this river are carried off in little canals, and are brought into the
+homes and churches and Sunday-schools; and wherever they go tend to make
+lives good and happy. Little children love this River of God, and dip
+their cups into it and drink, and there is a voice speaking in their
+ears and saying: "Whosoever will, let him take of the water of life
+freely." There are some people who have traveled round the world and
+seen many very interesting lands and strange and curious people--white
+men, red men, black men, copper-colored men, yellow men, but they will
+tell you that they never saw men where the children were happy, where
+the homes were happy, and where people were trying to do each other
+good, unless this River of God went there first. This beautiful river
+that is doing so much for all who live on its banks,--it is the Bible,
+the Word of God, which tells us about Himself and about ourselves, which
+speaks to us of a Savior and of the life after death.
+
+Some years ago a black prince in Africa sent a messenger to Queen
+Victoria, a man who was to ask her what was the reason that England was
+so rich and prosperous; and she sent back to this African savage
+something that told the whole story. What do you suppose it was? Not a
+rifle, not a sword, not a steam-engine, not a plow, not a
+sewing-machine, but a copy of the Bible. Let me tell you _five_ things
+about this book, and if you know how to spell the word Bible you will
+find them easy to remember--B-I-B-L-E.
+
+First, then, the Bible is a _beautiful_ book. I do not mean as to its
+shape and color. It may be very lovely or it may be very plain, as it
+looks to your eye. I have seen Bibles that you could buy for a sixpence,
+and I have a New Testament that I bought for a penny. I have seen Bibles
+which were copied with a pen and filled with pictures on which men
+labored for years, and which you couldn't buy for a thousand dollars.
+When I say that the Bible is a beautiful book, I mean that it is full of
+beautiful thoughts and beautiful pictures and beautiful stories that
+speak to our minds. God often talks with children through pictures. You
+love things that speak to you through the eye, like flowers and birds,
+and your dear mother's face. Just think of some of the pictures God has
+given us in this Book.
+
+I see, with my mind's eye, a garden, large, fair, with great trees and
+beautiful walks, pure, clear streams with lovely flowers, with animals
+playing about, with two trees that were set apart from the rest, one
+called the Tree of Life and the other the Tree of the Knowledge of Good
+and Evil. I see a man in this garden, and animals passing before him and
+hear him giving them names. Now I see a city with twelve gates, each
+gate a pearl. The city has walls made of twelve kinds of jewels, and the
+streets are of pure gold, and there is no temple in the city and no sun,
+but it is very glorious and wonderful. I see a beautiful River and a
+glorious Sea, and a great multitude of shining ones with harps in their
+hands, and I see a throne and One that sits thereon, more lovely and
+beautiful and mighty and glorious than any words can say.
+
+The little three-year-old boy before he can read, loves to take his
+picture book and see things that are to him very wonderful, 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 books. The first book I ever colored
+was full of Bible pictures. There was the picture of a man on the top of
+a hill with his son laid on a heap of stones. The father's face was sad,
+and the old man was lifting a knife in his hand; and there was a sheep
+caught in a bush near by; and there was the figure of an angel in the
+sky. Then there was the picture of a young man lying on the ground, with
+stones under his head for a pillow, and a stairway or ladder reaching up
+to the heavens above, with angels going up and down. There was the
+picture of a boy whose father gave him a coat of many colors, and how I
+liked to daub on the red and yellow and blue paint, and I am afraid I
+took a pin and punched out the eyes in the pictures of the brothers of
+this boy--those brothers who, as you remember, cast him into a dry well
+and afterward sold him as a slave. There was a picture of a little boy
+lying in a little boat which was among the tall grasses of a river.
+There was the picture of a great tent in the desert, with altars on
+which fire was burning, and a great pillar of cloud resting down on it
+in the midst of the tent. And then far over in the book was the picture
+of the best Man who ever lived, taking little children in His arms,
+putting His hands on them and blessing them.
+
+The Bible is a beautiful book for a great many reasons that I can't
+speak of now. Its beauty is not like that of an apple blossom, which
+soon fades away. It grows more and more lovely as you grow older. I like
+to see a little child reading with happy face from this book which tells
+of God's love; but it is lovelier still to see the old grandmother, who
+loved the Bible in childhood, putting on her spectacles and reading
+these words of David: "Oh, how I love thy law! It is my meditation all
+the day. How sweet are thy words to my taste, yea, sweeter than honey to
+my mouth!" Two of the most beautiful things that we ever see are gold
+and honey--gold, bright shining, and the honey which looks like liquid
+gold, shut up in little boxes of pearl. Now I am going to end what I
+have to say about the Bible as beautiful, by telling you what David said
+of the words of the Lord that are found in this book: "More to be
+desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than
+honey and the honey comb."
+
+But the Bible is not only a beautiful book for children, but it is an
+_interesting_ book. You like to read it and hear it, partly because it
+tells so much about children, boys and girls like you. You read in this
+book about two brothers, one of whom loved God, and the other did not
+love his brother, and slew him because his own deeds were evil and his
+brother's righteous. You read about a little girl who was taken off in a
+certain war, and became a servant for the wife of a great general. He
+was a leper, and this little girl, believing in God and in God's
+prophet, Elisha, told her mistress that the prophet in Israel could heal
+her master of his awful disease. You read the story of a little boy
+whose mother gave him early to the Lord, and who went to live with an
+old man in a great tent, which was God's house, and who heard the voice
+of the Lord calling to him in the night. Did you never hear God's voice
+speaking to your heart, and do you always answer as did this boy in the
+tabernacle at Shiloh: "Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth"?
+
+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 wines, and who formed a boys' temperance society in the court
+of the king, and who rose to high honor and great fame. Above all, you
+read of the perfect Child who was obedient to his earthly father and
+mother, and who did the will of his Heavenly Father, and who grew into
+the bravest, noblest, truest, most manly man that ever lived, and who
+died for us all--that Man whose words are, I think, the first words of
+the Bible that you learned by heart. I have heard of a little girl who
+lived where the Bible is not permitted to be read by the children. But
+she had a present of the good Book from her Sunday School teacher. It
+was discovered that she had this book; it was snatched from her and
+thrown into the fire. She watched it burn, while the tears rolled down
+her cheeks, and turning sadly away, said: "Thank God, there are fourteen
+chapters of the Gospel of John which they can't burn up, for I have
+committed them to memory."
+
+The Bible interests you because it is full of _wonderful_ things. It
+tells of a wonderful God who doeth marvelous things for His people. It
+tells of the flood which swept away the wicked world; of the plagues
+which fell on wicked Egypt; of the march of two millions of people
+through the Red Sea which God divided; it tells you of the wonderful
+life of the children of Israel in the desert, with God's hand feeding
+them with the birds and the bread; it leads you to the foot of a great
+mountain, on which God came down in a chariot of fire, while the
+thunders roared and the trumpet blown by some mighty angel sounded loud
+and long, and the mountain shook and smoked like a great furnace, and
+all the people trembled while God gave the law which begins: "I am the
+Lord that brought thee out of Egypt. Thou shalt have no other gods
+before me."
+
+This Bible has more wonderful things than you will find anywhere else.
+It tells of great battles, of the sun and moon standing still, of cities
+falling down at the blowing of trumpets; of fire descending from heaven;
+it tells of shipwrecks and storms, and cruel kings, and men willing to
+die for the name of Jesus. It tells of God's wonderful love, and how the
+Son of God came from heaven to earth and died for us on the Cross and
+rose from the grave. And the best thing, children, about all these Bible
+wonders, is this, that they are true. A wonderful God doeth wonderful
+things. This is a wonderful world we live in. You children know it and
+feel it, and some older people have got to become much wiser than they
+now are to be as wise as you are. Is not the Bible an interesting Book?
+My children will listen longer to the story of the Bible than anything
+else. And as you grow older, if you will only keep on studying the
+Bible, it will keep its interest till you die.
+
+Children who live in cities love to ride, in summer, in the parks and
+see the wonderful figures which the gardeners have made with their
+plants and flowers, the stars and stripes, an elephant, the ball-player,
+a giraffe, a sun-dial, a calendar, an obelisk, sphinxes, and so forth.
+Now, this book is a great garden on which God has made figures that will
+last as long as the world lasts. There is Adam, with his face dark and
+sorrowful because he had sinned; there is Abel, looking up to that
+heaven which he, first of all men, entered; there is Noah, a preacher of
+righteousness, who preached many years without converting a soul, but
+kept on believing God; there is Abraham with a staff in his hand; there
+is Moses holding the wondrous rod and the book of the law; there is
+David with his harp; there is Paul, going forth to preach Christ; there
+is John, looking into heaven. The children who have the Bible taught
+them will find great interest in these figures. But the greatest
+interest in the Bible is this, that it is a sign-board pointing us to
+our Father's house in Heaven.
+
+Now, I come to the third letter. The B-I-_B_-L-E--is not only a
+Beautiful book, and an Interesting book, but it is a Blessed book. That
+is, it makes people happy and good, good and happy. A poor man comes
+from England to Chicago with his wife and three children, expecting to
+get work and to make him a lovely home. But he fails to get work and he
+has to sell many things to get bread for his family. At last he is in
+despair, but a good man comes to his house, learns of his need, gives
+him bread and gets him work; and that night the Englishman says to his
+wife, "Wasn't he a blessed man to help us at this time?" But in a few
+days the baby of the house is taken sick and soon dies, and the good man
+comes again and advances money to pay for the funeral of the dear little
+child; and they say, "Blessed man!" again. But that night, when all is
+over, and the baby is laid to sleep in the cemetery, the poor man takes
+down the Bible and reads to his wife of Christ's love to children, and
+of the beautiful world beyond, where there is no more crying and death,
+and the wife says, "Oh, isn't that a blessed Book!"
+
+_Blessed_ Book. So the mother thinks whose boy has gone off to school or
+to sea. 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 day. She knows perfectly
+well that no great harm can come to him, if he reads and obeys what is
+written in the Word of God. I know a young lady who was very much
+distressed when in Paris several years ago because her hand-bag, a
+little portmanteau, had been lost. And when, after much hunting, it was
+found, she confessed that what distressed her most of all in the thought
+of losing her hand-bag was this, that it contained the little Bible
+which had been given to her when a child and which she had made her
+daily companion ever since. I hope that each of you owns a Bible which,
+the gift of a mother or of some dear friend, is growing more and more
+blessed to you as you go forward into your lives. There is much darkness
+in the future. You will have sorrows as well as joys. The clouds will
+gather. The shadows will sometimes descend and you will wonder where you
+are to walk, or what you are to do. But remember what David has said of
+this blessed Book: "Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a guide to my
+path."
+
+Now, we come to the fourth letter, B-I-B-_L_-E. Beautiful, Interesting,
+Blessed, L, Life-giving. This is something better than anything we have
+yet said to you about the Bible. It gives life to those who are dead.
+You have seen a patch of ground early in the spring on which nothing was
+growing. But the rain falls, and the warm sunshine pours down, and the
+seeds in that soil burst into life and spring up and cover the earth
+with living plants and flowers. And so God's Word brings its dew and
+sunshine on our cold, dead hearts, and the flowers of love, hope, peace
+and joy spring up. The Bible is like bread, like the manna which came to
+the children of Israel in the desert. It feeds our souls. It gives us
+life. How does it give us life? It teaches us about God and his great
+love in Jesus, and when we come to get from Him the forgiveness of our
+sins, when we come to know God and love God and trust in God, we have
+life. "This is life eternal," said Jesus, "that they may know thee, the
+only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." Some of you are
+giving money to send this Book to the heathen people. Where this Book
+goes it gives life like bread sent to people who are starving.
+
+But why do we need the Bible to know about God? 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 them? Yes, they tell us that God is powerful,
+that He is very great, but they do not tell us that he loves us poor
+sinners. The Egyptians believed in God; yes, in many gods. They were, as
+we know, a very wise and learned people. And yet this people Moses found
+bowing down and worshiping cats and crocodiles and beetles. They did not
+know the one God who led His people, and who said, "Thou shalt have no
+other gods before me," and who is not only holy, but merciful, forgiving
+our sins. Suppose that you were on an ocean steamer way out at sea, and
+she was sinking into the waves. To what or to whom would you pray? You
+wouldn't pray to the waves. They would not have mercy on you. You
+wouldn't pray to the stars. They wouldn't have mercy on you. You would
+pray to the God who is revealed in this Book, the God and Father of our
+Lord Jesus Christ, who has said that nothing can take us from His love,
+neither life nor death, land nor ocean, nothing can separate us from His
+love.
+
+Children, this Book tells us one thing which all need to learn, and that
+is, how we may gain life eternal, how we may escape from death. This
+Book is the story of God's love. It is the story of Jesus, our Savior.
+He that has Christ in his heart has life. "I am the resurrection and the
+life," said Jesus; "I am the way, the truth and the life." If this Book
+does not lead you to Christ, you have failed to get from it what God
+gave it for. David said of the Bible: "The law of the Lord is perfect,
+converting the soul."
+
+We come now to the fifth letter, B-I-B-L-_E_--Everlasting. The Bible is
+Beautiful, Interesting, Blessed, Life-giving, and Everlasting. It is
+something that does not wear out. "The word of the Lord endureth
+forever." Children's clothes wear out, as you well know. Your
+play-things break; your shoes don't last; your books get torn; these
+bodies die; but the Bible lasts. It was good in David's time. It was
+good when Christ was a child, and He read it. It was good in Paul's
+time, and he added to it. It was good when Martin Luther translated it
+into the German language, and William Tyndale translated it into
+English. It lasts the way an oak tree lasts, that grows bigger and
+bigger and sends out little shoots that grow into other oaks and make a
+mighty forest. This Bible is now speaking to men in nearly three hundred
+different languages. It is going to be the one Book of the world. A
+hundred years ago a famous infidel in France, named Voltaire, foolishly
+published his opinion that the religion of the Bible would soon die out,
+but to-day men are using Voltaire's printing-press in Geneva to publish
+this grand old Book. Here is something, children, that is going to last.
+You can stand on it safely. God is in it. When the little girl whose
+father was an infidel and whose mother was a Christian was dying, and
+she said to her father, "Shall I hold to your principles, father, or
+shall I turn now to my mother's God?" the father said: "Believe in your
+mother's God."
+
+Just before beginning a great battle on the sea, you remember that
+Admiral Nelson hung out a flag with these words for all to see: "England
+expects every man to do his duty." And so our great General, the Captain
+of our salvation, expects that every boy trained up in a Christian
+church will do his duty. He expects that you will take this Beautiful,
+Interesting, Blessed, Life-giving and Eternal book and make it your
+guide, your compass, your rudder, your chart on the great ocean of life.
+He expects that you will be true men and women, honest, pure, obedient
+to God, loving your country and all the world. He expects that you will
+be faithful to duty, that you will be clean in body and in lips and
+mouth and eyes and heart. He expects to meet you and welcome you all in
+glory above.
+
+A passenger on one of our ocean steamers found an old friend in the
+captain. They talked about one of their old classmates in school. Said
+the passenger: "I could never understand why Will did not succeed. He
+left college well educated, full of life and health, well-to-do. He gave
+up the ministry which he had intended to enter, having fallen in with
+some free-thinking fellows. He studied law, but gave that up and went to
+farming. He became a skeptic. He left his wife and farming and became a
+gold-seeker in California. He left this and went to Idaho. He had lost
+everything, and supported himself by odd jobs. I knew him there. He was
+not a drunkard or a gambler, but he had never succeeded. He tried
+something new several times a year. He was now almost mad in his
+opposition to the religion of the Bible. Soon he died, bitterly
+rebelling against God. It is wonderful that such a man should ever have
+come to such an end."
+
+The captain was silent for a while, but at last said: "Old sailors have
+a superstition that there are phantom ships (that is, ghosts of ships)
+which cross the sea. I saw a vessel once that showed me how this idea
+may have sprung up. It was a full-rigged bark, driving under full sail.
+There was no one on board. Some disease may have broken out, and all the
+sailors had left. I could not capture her, though I tried. Several
+months later I passed her again. Her topmast was gone; her sails were in
+rags; the wind drove her where it would. A year later she came in sight
+one stormy winter night. She was a shattered hulk and went down at last
+in the darkness and storm. She was a good ship at first, but," added the
+captain, "she had lost her rudder." Boys and girls, young men and women,
+I pray you, on this voyage of life, not to lose the rudder by which, in
+the storm, you may hold the ship true to the harbor.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+  CHAPTER I.                                          PAGE
+  GOD MADE THE WORLD,                                   33
+
+  CHAPTER II.
+  THE GREAT FLOOD; AND A GREAT TOW-ER,                  43
+
+  CHAPTER III.
+  A-BRA-HAM: THE MAN OF FAITH,                          52
+
+  CHAPTER IV.
+  JA-COB AND E-SAU,                                     64
+
+  CHAPTER V.
+  JA-COB AND RA-CHEL,                                   71
+
+  CHAPTER VI.
+  JO-SEPH AND HIS BRETH-REN,                            76
+
+  CHAPTER VII.
+  THROUGH THE RED SEA AND THE WIL-DER-NESS,             91
+
+  CHAPTER VIII.
+  HOW JOSH-U-A AND JEPH-THAH FOUGHT FOR THE LORD,      112
+
+  CHAPTER IX.
+  SAM-SON, THE STRONG MAN,                             118
+
+  CHAPTER X.
+  RUTH,                                                128
+
+  CHAPTER XI.
+  JOB,                                                 132
+
+  CHAPTER XII.
+  SAM-U-EL, THE CHILD OF GOD,                          139
+
+  CHAPTER XIII.
+  SAM-U-EL, THE MAN OF GOD,                            147
+
+  CHAPTER XIV.
+  DA-VID AND SAUL,                                     157
+
+  CHAPTER XV.
+  SOL-O-MON, THE WISE MAN,                             177
+
+  CHAPTER XVI.
+  E-LI-JAH,                                            183
+
+  CHAPTER XVII.
+  E-LI-SHA,                                            192
+
+  CHAPTER XVIII.
+  JO-NAH, THE MAN WHO TRIED TO HIDE FROM GOD,          200
+
+  CHAPTER XIX.
+  DAN-I-EL,                                            204
+
+  CHAPTER XX.
+  THE GOOD QUEEN ES-THER,                              217
+
+
+  NEW TESTAMENT.
+
+  CHAPTER I.
+  THE BIRTH OF CHRIST,                                 235
+
+  CHAPTER II.
+  THE STAR IN THE EAST,                                244
+
+  CHAPTER III.
+  THE BOY-HOOD OF JE-SUS,                              251
+
+  CHAPTER IV.
+  JE-SUS AND JOHN THE BAP-TIST,                        256
+
+  CHAPTER V.
+  THE WO-MAN AT THE WELL.--JE-SUS BY THE SEA,          267
+
+  CHAPTER VI.
+  JE-SUS HEALS THE SICK, AND DOES GOOD WORK ON THE
+      DAY OF REST,                                     276
+
+  CHAPTER VII.
+  THE SER-MON ON THE MOUNT,                            286
+
+  CHAPTER VIII.
+  GOOD WORDS AND GOOD WORKS,                           295
+
+  CHAPTER IX.
+  JE-SUS AT THE SEA-SHORE,                             303
+
+  CHAPTER X.
+  JE-SUS BRINGS THE DEAD TO LIFE.--FEEDS FIVE
+      THOU-SAND,                                       311
+
+  CHAPTER XI.
+  JE-SUS HEALS THE SICK.--HIS FORM CHANGED ON THE
+      MOUNT,                                           320
+
+  CHAPTER XII.
+  THE GOOD SA-MAR-I-TAN.--MAR-THA AND MA-RY.--THE
+      MAN BORN BLIND,                                  327
+
+  CHAPTER XIII.
+  JE-SUS THE GOOD SHEP-HERD.--LAZ-A-RUS BROUGHT TO
+      LIFE.--THE FEAST AND THOSE WHO WERE BID TO IT,   337
+
+  CHAPTER XIV.
+  THE PROD-I-GAL SON.--THE PHAR-I-SEE AND THE
+      PUB-LI-CAN.--BABES BROUGHT TO
+      JE-SUS.--ZAC-CHE-US CLIMBS A TREE,               346
+
+  CHAPTER XV.
+  THE FEAST OF THE PASS-O-VER.--THE SUP-PER AT
+      BETH-A-NY,                                       353
+
+  CHAPTER XVI.
+  PAR-A-BLES OF OUR LORD,                              362
+
+  CHAPTER XVII.
+  THE LORD'S SUP-PER.--JE-SUS IN GETH-SEM-A-NE.--THE
+      JU-DAS KISS.--PE-TER DE-NIES JE-SUS,             375
+
+  CHAPTER XVIII.
+  CHRIST BE-FORE PI-LATE.--CHRIST ON THE CROSS,        382
+
+  CHAPTER XIX.
+  JE-SUS LEAVES THE GRAVE.--AP-PEARS TO
+      MA-RY.--STE-PHEN STONED.--PAUL'S LIFE,
+      SHIP-WRECK AND DEATH,                            395
+
+  CHAPTER XX.
+  WHAT JOHN SAW WHILE ON THE ISLE OF PAT-MOS.--THE
+      GREAT WHITE THRONE.--THE LAND OF LIGHT,          412
+
+
+
+
+History of the Old Testament.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+GOD MADE THE WORLD.
+
+
+FAR back in the past, more years than you could think or count, God made
+the world. It did not look at first as it does now, for there was no
+live thing on it, no men, beasts, or birds, not a bush, tree or plant,
+but all was dark and drear.
+
+Then God said, Let there be light! And the light came. And God saw the
+light, and it pleased him, and he gave it the name of Day. And when the
+day was gone, and the dark came back to stay for a while, he gave the
+dark spell the name of Night. And God did these things on the first day.
+
+The next day God made the clouds, and the sky in which they were to
+move; and he gave the sky a name; he called it Heav-en.
+
+Then he drove the wa-ters to one place where they were both deep and
+wide, and he called the wa-ters Seas, and to the dry land he gave the
+name of Earth. And God made the grass to grow up out of the earth, and
+the trees and shrubs that have fruit on them. And the grass and the
+shrubs and the trees were to bear seeds, so that when these seeds were
+put in-to the ground more grass and trees and shrubs would grow there.
+God did these things on the third day.
+
+And God put two great lights in the sky, the Sun to shine by day, and
+the Moon to shine by night; and he made the stars, and put each one in
+its place. And these things he did on the fourth day.
+
+And he made the great whales, and all the fish that live in the sea, and
+the birds that swim on it, as well as those that fly through the air,
+and make their nests in the deep woods. And these things God did on the
+fifth day.
+
+God made the beasts: those that are wild and live in the deep, dark
+woods, far from the homes of men; and those that are tame and of use to
+men, and live where men live--such as the horse, the cow, the ox and the
+sheep. And he made the things that creep on the ground, and flies and
+bugs that course through the air.
+
+[Illustration: AD-AM AND EVE DRIV-EN FROM PAR-A-DISE.]
+
+And then God made Man, and told him that he should rule the fish of the
+sea, the birds of the air, and all else that lived on the earth. And he
+told man that the fruit which grew on the trees and shrubs should be his
+food, while the beasts were to feed on the leaves, and on the grass
+that was spread out on the earth. These things were done on the sixth
+day.
+
+The next day God did no work at all, but made it a day of rest.
+
+God made man out of the dust of the earth, and breathed in him till the
+man breathed and moved, and showed signs of life. Then God made a
+gar-den for man to live in, where all sorts of trees grew that were nice
+to look at, and that bore fruit good to eat. And this place was called
+E-den. And through it flowed a large stream that kept the earth moist.
+
+And God took Ad-am, the man he had made, and put him in the gar-den, and
+told him to take care of it. He told him he might eat of the fruit that
+grew on all the trees but one. God said he must not eat of that tree,
+for if he did he would be sure to die. And all the birds and beasts came
+to A-dam, that he might give them their names. And the names he gave
+them are those by which they are known to this day.
+
+And God saw it was not good for man to be a-lone; he should have some
+one to be with him and help him. So he had a deep sleep fall on Ad-am,
+and while he slept God took out of his side a bone, and out of this bone
+he made a wo-man. Then he brought this wo-man he had made to Ad-am, and
+she was his wife.
+
+Now there was in this gar-den of E-den a great big snake. And this snake
+spoke to the wo-man--as Sa-tan speaks to us--to tempt her to sin.
+
+The snake said: Has God told you not to eat of all the trees in the
+gar-den?
+
+And the wo-man said that they might eat of all but one; if they ate of
+that or touched it they would be sure to die. The snake told them they
+should not die, and that God did not wish them to eat of it for fear
+they would grow wise, and know more than he thought was good for them.
+
+The wo-man heard what the snake said, and when she saw that the tree was
+nice to look at and the fruit seemed good to eat, she gave no thought to
+what God had said, but took some of the fruit and ate of it; she gave
+some to the man, Ad-am, and he did eat.
+
+In a short time they heard a voice, and knew that God spoke to them. Yet
+they did not come near him when they heard his voice, but ran and tried
+to hide from him.
+
+But God spoke once more, and said to the man, Where art thou?
+
+And Ad-am said, I heard thy voice, and my fear was so great that I hid
+from thee.
+
+And God said, Did'st thou eat of the tree I told thee not to eat of?
+
+And the man said, She whom thou dids't give me to be with me brought me
+some of the fruit, and I did eat.
+
+And God said to the man's wife, What is this that thou hast done?
+
+And she told God what the snake had said, and how she came to eat of the
+fruit, and God was wroth with them all. He said the snake should crawl
+on the ground and eat dust all the days of its life; and he told the
+wife she should know what it was to be sick and sad, and should have
+much grief and care.
+
+And God drove the man and his wife out of E-den, and would let them live
+no more in that fair place. And he sent an-gels to keep watch, and a
+sword of fire that would turn in all ways, so that the two whom God for
+their sins drove out of E-den could not get back to the home they had
+lost.
+
+And God told Ad-am that as he had paid heed to what his wife said, and
+did eat of the tree which the Lord had told him not to eat of, the
+ground should bear no more fruit for him by it-self, as it had done up
+to this time, and Ad-am would have to work hard all his life to raise
+food to eat, and when he died he would go back to the dust out of which
+he was made.
+
+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 ground. He
+said he would send One from the sky who would give his life for theirs:
+that is, he would be put to death for their sins. Then if they would
+turn from their sins, and give their hearts to the One who was to save
+them, God would not turn his face from them, but when they died they
+would have a home with him, and have no thought of sin.
+
+So Ad-am went forth to till the land, and he gave his wife the name of
+Eve. And they made coats out of the skins of beasts.
+
+[Illustration: CAIN AND A-BEL OF-FER-ING SAC-RI-FI-CES TO GOD.]
+
+Ad-am and his wife had two sons: Cain and A-bel. When they grew up to be
+men, Cain, who was the first-born, took care of a farm; A-bel kept a
+flock of sheep.
+
+They both had bad hearts, and at times would be led in-to sin, just as
+Ad-am and his wife had been. But when A-bel did wrong he was grieved,
+and sought to make peace with God. One day he brought a lamb from his
+flock, and killed it, and burnt it on a heap of stones. And the smoke
+went up on high.
+
+This act of A-bel's pleased God, for it was the sign that a Lamb was to
+be sent to the world to save men from their sins.
+
+But Cain kept on in his sins, and paid his vows to God not with a lamb,
+but with fruit or grain out of the field. This did not please God, and
+the smoke went not up on high. When Cain saw this he was in a rage, and
+showed by his looks that he was wroth with God. Yet God spoke to him in
+a kind voice, and said, Why art thou wroth? and why art thou so cast
+down?
+
+If Cain did right God told him he would be pleased with his gift; but if
+he did not do right, the fault was his own.
+
+Then Cain was wroth with A-bel, for he saw that God was pleased with
+A-bel's gift and not with his. And one day when both of them were out in
+the field he rose up and slew A-bel, and the blood ran out of A-bel's
+wounds and sank deep in the ground.
+
+As soon as this deed was done, God spoke to Cain, and said: Where is
+A-bel?
+
+Cain said, I know not. He is not in my care. Then God, who had seen the
+crime, and knew just how bad his heart was, said to Cain: What hast thou
+done? The voice of A-bel's blood cries to me from out the ground.
+
+And God told Cain that for his great sin he should move from place to
+place, as one who was in fear of his life, and had no home to stay in.
+And if he should plant aught in the field to bear food, it should not
+grow well. Weeds would come up and choke it, or it would bear leaves and
+no fruit, so that Cain would not have much to eat.
+
+[Illustration: THE DEATH OF A-BEL.]
+
+And Cain said if God drove him here and there on the face of the earth,
+and would not take care of him, all those who met him would want to kill
+him.
+
+But God said the man who hurt Cain would have a worse fate. God set a
+mark on Cain; what kind of a mark it was we are not told, but those who
+saw it would know it was Cain, and it would bring to their minds that
+God had said no man should kill him.
+
+Ad-am lived to be an old, old man, and had a large flock of chil-dren,
+who grew up and were wed, and they went off and made homes, and day by
+day were folks born in-to the world. When Ad-am died he was laid in the
+ground and went back to dust, as God had said he should when he went out
+of E-den.
+
+One of the men who lived in those days was named E-noch. It is said of
+him that he walked with God. That means that he loved God, and thought
+of him, and kept near him all the time, and did his best to please him.
+
+And E-noch did not die, but God took him up to be with him while he
+still lived, just as if he were to take up one of us.
+
+And E-noch had a son whose name was Me-thu-se-lah, who died at a great
+old age. In those times men lived more years than they do now, 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-lah.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+THE GREAT FLOOD; AND A GREAT TOWER.
+
+
+IN the course of time, when there came to be more folks in the world,
+they grew fond of sin. They did not love God, or try to please him. And
+God was wroth with them, and said he would send a flood that would drown
+the world, and there should not be any dry land left for men, beasts, or
+birds to live on.
+
+But though most of the folks at that time were as bad as they could be,
+there was one good man in their midst, and his name was No-ah.
+
+[Illustration: THE ARK.]
+
+And God loved No-ah and told him what he meant to do. And God bade No-ah
+build an ark. This was a boat. It was to be made large, with rooms in
+it, and a great door on its side. And it was to be quite high, and to
+have a roof on top.
+
+And God told No-ah when the ark was done he and his sons and their wives
+should go in it.
+
+And he told No-ah to take in with him two of each kind of bird and of
+beast, and of bug, and of things that crept, and to take care of them in
+the ark so long as the flood should be on the earth; for all that were
+not in the ark would be sure to be drowned.
+
+So No-ah set out at once to build the ark; and it took him a great while
+to build it. When not at work on the ark, he would talk of God, and of
+his plan to send a flood to wash sin out of the world, and would urge
+the folks to give up their sins, and lead good lives. But they paid no
+heed to his words, and went from bad to worse all the time that No-ah
+was at work on the ark.
+
+When it was done God told No-ah to come in-to the ark, for he saw he was
+a good man who had done his best to serve him, and to bring the birds
+and beasts with him. For in a few days he would send the rain on the
+earth, and all that was left on it would be drowned.
+
+[Illustration: THE ARK]
+
+So No-ah did as God told him. And when he and his wife, and his three
+sons and their wives, and the birds and the beasts, both small and
+great, had passed through the great door of the ark, God shut them in.
+
+At the end of a week the rain set in, and did not stop for more than a
+month. The rain seemed to pour out of the sky, and all the springs, the
+large and small streams, and the great seas, rose up and swept through
+the length and breadth of the land. They came to where the ark was, and
+went round and round it, and rose so high that the ark was borne from
+its place and set a-float on the great wide sea.
+
+Then those who had paid no heed to No-ah, but had kept on in their sins,
+were in a sad plight. The flood had come, and they knew now that all
+that he had told them was true. How glad they would have been to go with
+him in the ark. But it was too late. They ran in wild haste to the tops
+of the hills in hopes to find there a safe place. But still the floods
+rose and rose till there was no place for them to go, and all those not
+in the ark were drowned, and there was not a bit of dry land in the
+whole wide world.
+
+But God took care of No-ah, and those who were with him, and kept them
+safe till the floods went down. 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-rat. It stood there for at least two months, and at the end of that
+time the sea had gone down so that tops of high hills could be seen
+here and there.
+
+And No-ah sent forth a ra-ven, and the bird flew this way and that, but
+came not back to the ark.
+
+Then No-ah sent forth a dove, that he might find out if the ground was
+yet dry. And the dove flew here and there in search of green things, but
+found not a tree in sight, and naught but cold hard rock, and so she
+flew back to the ark and No-ah put out his hand and took her in.
+
+At the end of a week No-ah sent out the dove once more, and at the close
+of the day she came back with a leaf in her mouth.
+
+[Illustration: THE RE-TURN OF THE DOVE.]
+
+As soon as No-ah saw the leaf he knew that the waves had gone down or
+the dove could not have found it. And he knew that God had sent the
+dove back to him that he might know the ground would soon be dry.
+
+In a few days he sent the dove out for the third time, but she did not
+come back; and No-ah was sure then that the ground was dry, and that God
+meant that for a sign that he should leave the ark in which he had been
+shut up so long.
+
+And God spoke to No-ah and told him to come out of the ark, and to bring
+out all that had been in there with him. And No-ah did so, and he built
+up a heap of stones as A-bel had done, on which he laid beasts and
+birds, and burnt them, which was the way in which man gave thanks to God
+in those days.
+
+And No-ah's heart was full of praise to God, who had kept him, and those
+who were near and dear to him, safe from the flood, while all the rest
+of the world was drowned.
+
+And God told No-ah and his sons that they should rule on the earth, and
+might kill the beasts and use the flesh for food. 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 ground, and did not know the taste of meat.
+
+And God told No-ah that he would send no more floods to drown the world
+as this one had done. And he gave No-ah a sign that he would keep his
+word, so that when No-ah saw it he would have no fear of a flood. And
+this sign was the rain-bow, which God set up in the sky as a bow of hope
+to No-ah and to all the world.
+
+No-ah lived for years and years af-ter the flood, and died at a ripe old
+age.
+
+The tribes of No-ah grew so fast that the world was quite well filled
+once more.
+
+[Illustration: NO-AH'S SAC-RI-FICE.]
+
+And you would think they would have been glad to serve God, and to do
+right in his sight. But their hearts were full of sin, and they went on
+as those had done who were drowned in the flood.
+
+[Illustration: HE-BREWS, AND THEIR MODE OF TRAV-EL-ING.]
+
+At this time all those who dwelt on the earth spoke but one tongue; that
+is, they used the same kind of speech.
+
+Now these tribes did not stay in one spot all the time, but would pack
+up their tents and move from place to place as they chose.
+
+And as they went to the east they came to a plain in the land of
+Shi-nar. And they said, Let us make brick and build a high tow-er that
+shall reach up to the sky. And let us make a name, so that when we go
+from this place it will be known what great men were here, and what
+great deeds they could do.
+
+[Illustration: BUILD-ING THE TOW-ER OF BA-BEL.]
+
+And they set to work to build it. God, who read their hearts, knew that
+sin was at work there, and that the tow-er they meant to build was not
+to serve him in, or to add to his praise. So he was not pleased with
+their work, and chose a strange way to stop them. He made them all at
+once speak in strange tongues. This one could not tell what that one
+said, and they made such a noise that it grew to be just a ba-bel of
+sound. And that is why it was called the tow-er of Ba-bel.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+ABRAHAM: THE MAN OF FAITH.
+
+
+THERE dwelt in the land of Ur a man whose name was A-bra-ham. And in
+that land the men did not serve the true God, but had set up false gods
+to whom they paid their vows.
+
+And God told A-bra-ham to leave his home and go to a land which he would
+show him. A-bra-ham did not know where the land was, but he had great
+faith, and knew that God would take care of him and bring him to the
+land he had told him of.
+
+So A-bra-ham took Sa-rah, his wife, and his bro-ther's son, whose name
+was Lot, and they set out for the land which God had said he would show
+him.
+
+A-bra-ham was a rich man, and so was Lot, and they had a great wealth of
+flocks, and of herds, and of tents. And they each had a large force of
+herds-men. And these herds-men were at strife.
+
+And A-bra-ham told Lot it was best that they should part; and he said to
+him, Choose where thou shalt go. If thou wilt take the left hand I will
+go to the right, and if thou wilt go to the right hand then I will go to
+the left.
+
+So Lot looked round and saw that the plain of Jor-dan was rich in grass,
+and would be a fine place for him and his herds to dwell in; so he made
+his choice at once, and went to live there.
+
+Two large towns were on this plain, Sod-om and Go-mor-rah. The men in
+Sod-om were full of sin, yet Lot, though a good man, went to live there
+that he might have a chance to add to his wealth.
+
+As soon as Lot had gone, the Lord told A-bra-ham that he would give to
+him and his heirs all that land as far as he could see it. And the tribe
+of A-bra-ham would be so great that no one could count them.
+
+Now Sa-rah A-bra-ham's wife, had a hand-maid--that is, a
+maid-of-all-work--whose name was Ha-gar; and she came from E-gypt.
+Ha-gar did Sa-rah a great wrong, and Sa-rah drove her from the house,
+and she fled to the woods.
+
+An an-gel of the Lord found Ha-gar there by a spring of wa-ter, and said
+to her, From whence didst thou come? and where wilt thou go? And she
+said she had fled from Sa-rah, whose maid she was.
+
+And the an-gel said she must go back to Sa-rah and do as she wished her
+to do. And he told Ha-gar she would have a son whose name would be
+Ish-ma-el, and that he would live out of doors and be at strife with all
+men. So Ha-gar went back to Sa-rah, and in due time God gave her a son,
+who was called Ish-ma-el.
+
+When A-bra-ham was an old man, God told him that he and Sa-rah should
+have a son, who should be called I-saac.
+
+One day at the hour of noon, when A-bra-ham sat by the door of his tent,
+he looked up and saw three men quite near him. Then he ran out to meet
+them, and bowed his face to the ground. And A-bra-ham bade them sit down
+and rest, and let some wa-ter be brought that they might wash their
+feet.
+
+No one in those days wore such shoes as are worn now. Some went
+bare-foot, and some wore just a sole tied to the foot with strings,
+which did not keep off the dust and dirt as our shoes do.
+
+So when one came in from a long walk the first thing he did was to bathe
+his feet, as that gave rest and ease, and when guests came the bowl was
+brought for their use.
+
+And A-bra-ham brought them food to eat, and stood by to wait on them;
+and when they had had their fill, went with them to show them the way.
+
+In those days the Lord came down on the earth and spoke with men, and it
+is thought that one of these three was the Lord, and the two with him
+were an-gels.
+
+[Illustration: THE AN-GELS' VIS-IT.]
+
+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 there. This made A-bra-ham sad, and he
+said there might be a few good men there, and he begged the Lord to
+spare the towns for their sakes.
+
+The Lord said he would do so if ten good men could be found there.
+
+And the Lord left A-bra-ham and he went back to his tent. At the close
+of the day, Lot sat in the gate of Sod-om and two an-gels came there.
+And as soon as Lot saw them he rose up to meet them and bowed down with
+his face to the ground.
+
+Then these an-gels told Lot to take out of Sod-om all those who were
+dear to him, and flee in great haste, as the Lord meant to set the place
+on fire.
+
+They were told not to look back, but while on their way Lot's wife
+turned her head, which was a sign that her heart was in Sod-om, and she
+died where she stood, and turned to salt.
+
+But Lot and his two girls reached Zo-ar at dawn of the next day. Then
+the Lord rained fire on Sod-om and Go-mor-rah, and they were burnt up in
+fierce flame, with all that lived there, and all that grew out of the
+ground.
+
+In due time God gave A-bra-ham the son he had said he should have.
+
+And the child grew, and as soon as it could eat, A-bra-ham made a great
+feast. And at this feast Sa-rah saw that Ha-gar's son, Ish-ma-el, made
+fun of her boy, and she begged A-bra-ham to cast him out. A-bra-ham did
+not wish to do this, but God spoke to him and told him to do as Sa-rah
+had said, for I-saac was to be the true heir. So the next day A-bra-ham
+gave food and drink to Ha-gar and sent her and her child out of his
+house.
+
+And Ha-gar took her boy and went to the waste lands of Beer-she-ba.
+
+And when there was nought for the child to drink, he grew weak, and was
+like to die. And Ha-gar laid him 'neath a bush and went off and sat down
+and hid her face, and wept, for she loved her boy ve-ry much and did not
+want to see him die.
+
+[Illustration: DE-STRUC-TION OF THE CIT-IES OF THE PLAIN.]
+
+And a voice spoke to Ha-gar out of the sky, and said, What ails thee,
+Ha-gar? Fear not, for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
+Rise, lift up the lad and hold him in thine arms.
+
+And the voice told her that her son should be the head of a great tribe.
+And as she raised her eyes she saw a well of wa-ter, and she ran to it
+and gave her son a drink and he was soon strong and well once more.
+
+And God was kind to Ish-ma-el, and he grew, and made his home in the
+woods, and came to have great skill with the bow.
+
+Now it was God's wish to try the faith of A-bra-ham to him.
+
+And he told him to take his son, I-saac, and go to the land of Mo-ri-ah,
+and lay him on the al-tar he was to build on one of the mounts there. It
+was not a hard task to kill a lamb, and to burn it so that the smoke of
+it should rise up to God, like praise from the hearts of men. But how
+could A-bra-ham take his own dear son, I-saac, and lay him on the wood,
+and let him be burnt up like a lamb?
+
+Yet God told him to do it, and A-bra-ham knew that it was safe for him
+to do as God said.
+
+So he rose the next day and took two of his young men with him, and
+I-saac his son, and cut the wood the right length, and set out for the
+mount of which God had told him.
+
+[Illustration: HA-GAR AND ISH-MA-EL.]
+
+And as they drew near the place he took the wood from the ass and laid
+it on I-saac's back, and took the fire in his hand and a knife, and the
+two went up the mount.
+
+Now I-saac did not know what the Lord had told A-bra-ham to do, nor why
+his fa-ther took him up to the mount. And he said, Here is the fire and
+the wood, but where is the lamb?
+
+And A-bra-ham said, My son, God will give us the lamb we need.
+
+And when they came to the place, A-bra-ham piled up the stones and put
+the wood on them, and bound I-saac and laid him on the wood.
+
+Then he drew forth the knife to kill his son. And just then a voice from
+the sky cried out, A-bra-ham! A-bra-ham! And A-bra-ham said, Here am I.
+
+And the Lord told him to do no harm to I-saac, for now he knew that
+A-bra-ham loved him, since he would not spare his own dear son if it was
+God's wish that he should give him up.
+
+And as A-bra-ham turned his head he saw a ram that was caught in a bush,
+and he took the ram and laid it on the wood, and burnt it in-stead of
+his son.
+
+At the end of a few years A-bra-ham went to live at Heb-ron. And Sa-rah
+died there.
+
+When I-saac grew up to be a man, A-bra-ham did not wish him to take a
+wife from the land of Ca-naan where they served strange gods.
+
+So he sent one of his men to the land where he used to live to bring
+back a wife for I-saac.
+
+And as he drew near to a large town in that land he made his cam-els
+kneel down by a well. And it was the time of day when the wo-men of the
+place went out to draw wa-ter from the well.
+
+And the man whom A-bra-ham had sent, asked God to help him, and to let
+him know which one of them was to be I-saac's wife. And he said he would
+ask one of them for a drink, and if she was kind and gave him a drink,
+and let his cam-els quench their thirst, then he should know that she
+was the one God chose to be the wife of A-bra-ham's son.
+
+[Illustration: RE-BEK-AH AT THE WELL.]
+
+And he raised his heart to God and said, O Lord God of A-bra-ham, give
+me good speed this day.
+
+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 filled. And the man ran to
+meet her, and said to her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
+
+And she said, Drink, my Lord, and held the jar in her hand so that he
+could drink with ease.
+
+Then she said, I will give thy cam-els a drink; and she went down to the
+well and drew for all the cam-els. And the man stood still, and was yet
+in doubt if this was the maid whom God chose to be I-saac's wife.
+
+And as soon as the cam-els had drunk their fill, the man took a gold
+ear-ring, and two bands of gold for the wrists, and gave them to
+Re-bek-ah. And he said, Whose child art thou? tell me, I pray thee. And
+is there room in thy sire's house for us to lodge in?
+
+The maid said that her sire's name was Beth-u-el, and that there was no
+lack of straw and food, and there was room in the house where he and his
+men might lodge.
+
+The man was glad when he heard this, for he knew the Lord had led him,
+and had brought him to the house to which he was sent. And he bowed his
+head and gave thanks.
+
+[Illustration: RE-BEK-AH JOUR-NEY-ING TO I-SAAC.]
+
+The next day Re-bek-ah and her maids went with A-bra-ham's head man. And
+they came to the land of Ca-naan.
+
+At the close of the day I-saac went to walk in the fields, and as he
+raised his eyes he saw the cam-els on their way home, and he went out to
+meet them.
+
+Re-bek-ah said to the man with whom she rode, What man is this that
+comes through the field to meet us?
+
+And the man told her that it was A-bra-ham's son, I-saac.
+
+Then the maid drew her veil round her so as to hide her face, and came
+down from the cam-el. And I-saac took her to his house and made her his
+wife. And A-bra-ham gave, all that he had to I-saac; and when he died he
+was laid by the side of Sa-rah, his wife, in the tomb he had bought at
+Mach-pe-lah.
+
+[Illustration: THE MEET-ING OF I-SAAC AND RE-BEK-AH.]
+
+And to this day no one has had such faith or trust in God as did
+A-bra-ham.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+JACOB AND ESAU.
+
+
+I-SAAC and Re-bek-ah had two sons. Their names were Ja-cob and E-sau.
+E-sau was the first-born, and in those days the first-born son had
+what was called the birth-right. This made him chief of all the rest,
+and heir to the most of his sire's wealth.
+
+When the boys grew up to be men, E-sau took to the fields and to
+out-door sports, while Ja-cob was a plain man and dwelt in tents. And
+I-saac was fond of E-sau, who killed the deer, and brought him the meat
+to eat. But Re-bek-ah was more fond of Ja-cob.
+
+One day Ja-cob had made some food called pot-tage, and E-sau came in
+from the field and said, Feed me, I pray thee, with that pot-tage, for I
+am faint.
+
+And Ja-cob said, Sell me thy birth-right.
+
+And E-sau said, I am at the point of death, so what good will a
+birth-right do me?
+
+So he sold his birth-right to Ja-cob--which was a wrong thing for him to
+do--and took the bread and meat, and ate and drank, and then went on his
+way.
+
+Now there came a time when I-saac was an old man, and his eyes were dim,
+for he had not long to live. 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 of, that he might eat it and bless E-sau ere he
+died.
+
+And Re-bek-ah heard what I-saac had said to E-sau, and she told it to
+Ja-cob. And she said to him, Go now to the flock, and fetch me from
+thence two good kids, and I will make such a dish as thy fa-ther loves.
+And thou shalt bring it to him that he may eat, and that he may bless
+thee ere his death.
+
+So Ja-cob did as he was told, and brought the kids to his mo-ther that
+she might cook them in a way that would please the good man of the
+house.
+
+Then Re-bek-ah put some of E-sau's clothes on Ja-cob, and put the skins
+of goats on his hands, for E-sau's hands had on them a thick coat of
+hair. And then Ja-cob took the meat and the bread and went in to his
+fa-ther.
+
+And I-saac said, Who art thou, my son?
+
+[Illustration: I-SAAC SPEAK-ING TO E-SAU.]
+
+And Ja-cob said, I am E-sau, thy first-born. Rise, I pray thee, and eat
+of the deer's meat I have brought, that thy soul may bless me.
+
+And I-saac said to Ja-cob, How is it that thou hast found it so soon, my
+son?
+
+And he said, The Lord thy God brought it to me.
+
+And I-saac said to Ja-cob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee,
+my son, and know if thou be my son E-sau or not. And Ja-cob went near to
+his fa-ther and he felt him, and said, The voice is Ja-cob's voice, but
+the hands are the hands of E-sau.
+
+And he said, Art thou in truth my son E-sau?
+
+And Ja-cob said, I am.
+
+And he said, Bring near the food, and I will eat, that my soul may bless
+thee.
+
+And Ja-cob brought it near to him, and he did eat, and he brought him
+wine and he drank.
+
+And his fa-ther said to him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
+
+And he came near, and gave him the kiss. Then the old man asked God to
+bless this whom he thought was his first-born, and make him great, and
+give him all good things.
+
+Ja-cob was scarce yet gone out from his fa-ther when E-sau came in from
+the hunt. And he brought in a nice dish of meat, and said, Let my
+fa-ther rise and eat of the flesh of the deer, that thy soul may bless
+me.
+
+And I-saac said, Who art thou?
+
+And he said, I am thy son, thy first-born, E-sau.
+
+And I-saac shook like a leaf, and said, Who? Where is he that took
+deer's meat and brought it to me so that I did eat ere this, and bless
+him? Yea, and he shall be blest.
+
+When E-sau heard these words he cried out with great grief, and said to
+his fa-ther, Bless me too, O my fa-ther!
+
+But I-saac said that he could not take from Ja-cob what was now
+his--though he had won it through fraud.
+
+And E-sau said in his heart, My fa-ther will soon be dead, and then I
+will kill Ja-cob.
+
+[Illustration: JA-COB'S DREAM.]
+
+And these words were told to Re-bek-ah, and she sent for Ja-cob and said
+to him that E-sau meant to kill him, and he must leave home at once and
+go and stay with her bro-ther La-ban till E-sau's wrath had cooled.
+
+And Ja-cob went out from Beer-she-ba.
+
+And as he went on his way he came to a place where he thought he would
+lie down and rest. The sun was set, the day had been a long one, and he
+was quite worn out. So he put some stones for his head to rest on, and
+was soon sound a-sleep.
+
+And while he slept he had a strange dream. He saw a flight of steps that
+stood on the ground, the top of which was far, far up in the sky. And
+bright an-gels went up and down the steps. And the Lord stood at the
+top, and said, I am with thee, and will take care of thee, and will
+bring thee back to this land, for I will not leave thee till I have done
+that which I have told thee of.
+
+And Ja-cob woke out of his sleep, and said, 'Tis true the Lord is in
+this place, and I knew it not.
+
+And he was in great fear, and said, This is the house of God, and this
+is the gate of heav-en!
+
+Then he rose up and took the stone on which his head had lain and set it
+up on end, and he poured oil on top of it. And he gave to that place the
+name of Beth-el, and made a vow to love and serve God all the rest of
+his life.
+
+And though he had done wrong, God for-gave him, and he was known as a
+great and good man.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+JACOB AND RACHEL.
+
+
+AS Ja-cob went on his way to the East he came to a well that was out in
+the field, near which lay three great flocks of sheep. And there was a
+great stone on top of the well. And the men who took care of the flocks
+would roll the stone from the mouth of the well, and give drink to the
+sheep. Then they would roll the stone back to the mouth of the well.
+
+Ja-cob said to the men, Whence do ye come?
+
+And they told him.
+
+And he said, Know ye La-ban, the son of Na-hor?
+
+[Illustration: RA-CHEL AND JA-COB AT THE WELL.]
+
+And they said, We know him.
+
+And he said, Is he well?
+
+And they said, He is well. And there is one of his girls now, Ra-chel,
+and she comes this way with her sheep.
+
+While Ja-cob yet spake with the men, Ra-chel came up with the sheep that
+she took care of. And when Ja-cob saw her, he came near, and drew the
+stone from the mouth of the well, and gave drink to the whole of her
+flock.
+
+And as soon as he told her that he was Re-bek-ah's son, she ran home
+with the news.
+
+And when La-ban heard that his sis-ter's son was near, he ran out to
+meet him, and threw his arms round his neck and kissed him, and brought
+him to his house.
+
+And Ja-cob dwelt there for the space of a month.
+
+And La-ban said to Ja-cob, Thou art bone of my bone and flesh of my
+flesh, but it is not right for thee to serve me for nought. Tell me how
+much I shall pay thee?
+
+Now La-ban had two girls--Le-ah and Ra-chel. And Ja-cob was in love with
+Ra-chel; and he said to La-ban, I will serve thee se-ven years if thou
+wilt give me Ra-chel for a wife.
+
+And La-ban said it would please him to have Ja-cob for a son-in-law, and
+Ja-cob served sev-en years for Ra-chel, and they seemed to him but a few
+days, so great was his love for her. And at the end of that time Ja-cob
+said to La-ban, Give me my wife, for I have served thee my full time.
+
+And La-ban made a feast, and brought in Le-ah to be Ja-cob's wife. In
+those days the bride wore a veil, and the man she wed could not look on
+her face till the next day.
+
+So Ja-cob did not find out this trick till the next morn, and then he
+came in great wrath to La-ban and said, What is this thou hast done to
+us? Did I not serve with thee for Ra-chel? and why did'st thou cheat me?
+
+And La-ban said, In our land the first-born must wed the first. Serve me
+sev-en years more, and thou shalt have Ra-chel for a wife. And Ja-cob
+did so, 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-ah.
+
+Le-ah bore Ja-cob a host of sons, but it was years ere Ra-chel had a
+child. And this made her sad. But at last she had a son, and she called
+his name Jo-seph. And as soon as Jo-seph was born Ja-cob told La-ban to
+give him his wives and all the goods that he owned, and let him go back
+to the land he came from.
+
+But La-ban begged him to stay. He had found, he said, that the Lord had
+blest him for Ja-cob's sake, and he might have some of the land and the
+flocks if he would still serve him.
+
+So Ja-cob took care of La-ban's flocks, and had sheep and goats of his
+own, and things went well for a time.
+
+But one day Ja-cob heard La-ban's sons say some hard things of him, and
+he saw that La-ban did not give him the kind looks that he used to. And
+he felt that the time had come for them to part. And the Lord told
+Ja-cob to go back to the land he came from, and he would deal well with
+him. And Ja-cob took his wives, and the flocks and the goods he owned,
+and set out for the land of Ca-naan.
+
+Ja-cob sent one of his men to E-sau to say that he was on his way home,
+and was in hopes he would find grace in his sight.
+
+And the man brought back word that E-sau was on his way to meet Ja-cob
+with a large force of men. And Ja-cob thought of the wrongs he had done
+his broth-er, and was in great fear of him.
+
+He sought the help of God, and God told him what to do. And Ja-cob sent
+great droves of sheep and goats, and ewes and rams, and ca-mels and
+colts, and cows, and choice ones from all his live stock, as a gift to
+E-sau.
+
+And at night, when no one else was near, a man whose face shone with a
+strange light, came to Ja-cob and wound his arms round him and tried to
+throw him. And the two strove so hard that Ja-cob's thigh was put out of
+joint.
+
+And as it grew light the man said, Let me go, for the day breaks.
+
+Ja-cob said, I will not let thee go till thou hast blest me.
+
+And the man said, What is thy name? And he said, Ja-cob.
+
+And he said, Thy name shall be no more Ja-cob but Is-ra-el, for as a
+prince thou hast pow-er with God and with men.
+
+And when he had blest Ja-cob he went his way. And Ja-cob gave the place
+the name of Pe-ni-el, for, said he, I have seen God face to face and my
+life has been spared. For Ja-cob knew by this that E-sau would not kill
+him.
+
+[Illustration: THE MEET-ING OF JA-COB AND E-SAU.]
+
+When Ja-cob was an old, old man Ra-chel bore him a son; and they called
+his name Ben-ja-min. And Ra-chel died. And it was hard for Ja-cob to
+have her die and leave him, for his love for her was great, and she was
+a good wife to him.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.
+
+
+JA-COB had twelve sons, and he was more fond of Jo-seph than of all the
+rest; for he was the child of his old age. And he gave him a fine coat,
+and made a great pet of him. This did not please the rest of the sons,
+and they showed their hate of Jo-seph in all sorts of ways.
+
+One night Jo-seph had a strange dream, and he told it to Le-vi,
+Sim-e-on, and the rest, and it made them hate him all the more.
+
+He said, As we bound sheaves in the field, lo, my sheaf rose and stood
+up straight. And your sheaves stood round, and bowed to my sheaf.
+
+And those who heard him said, Shalt thou in-deed reign o'er us? And his
+words and his deeds filled them with a fierce hate.
+
+And it was not long ere he told them of a fresh dream he had had, in
+which he saw the sun and moon and e-lev-en stars bow down to him. And he
+told it to Ja-cob, and his e-lev-en sons.
+
+And Ja-cob took him to task, and said to him, What does this dream mean?
+Are all of us to bow down to the earth to thee? And he made up his mind
+to watch these signs, which might be sent of God.
+
+[Illustration: JO-SEPH'S DREAM.]
+
+Now Ja-cob had large flocks of sheep and goats at Shech-em, and all of
+his sons but Jo-seph had gone there to feed them. And Ja-cob said to
+Jo-seph, Go and see if it be well with thy breth-ren, and with the
+flocks, and bring me back word.
+
+And Jo-seph went out from the vale of Heb-ron to the land of Shech-em.
+
+When he came there he found that his broth-ers had gone on to Do-than.
+And Jo-seph went to Do-than and found them. And as soon as he came in
+sight they thought of a way in which they might get rid of him.
+
+[Illustration: SHECH-EM, THE FIRST CAP-I-TAL OF THE KING-DOM OF
+IS-RAEL.]
+
+Come, let us kill him, they said; and throw him in-to a pit, and say
+that a wild beast ate him up. Then we shall see what will be-come of his
+dreams.
+
+But Reu-ben heard it, and saved him out of their hands. And he said, Let
+us not kill the lad. Shed no blood; but cast him in-to this pit, and lay
+no hand on him. For he meant to take him out of the pit, and bear him
+home to his fath-er.
+
+But when Jo-seph came near these men who should have been kind to him,
+they took off his coat and threw him in-to the pit, which was dry, or he
+would have drowned. These old dry wells were left as traps in which to
+catch the wild beasts that prowled round in the dead of night, and well
+these bad men knew what would be Jo-seph's fate.
+
+As they sat down to eat, they looked up and saw a lot of men and cam-els
+on their way to E-gypt, with spices, and balm and myrrh.
+
+[Illustration: JO-SEPH SOLD BY HIS BROTH-ERS.]
+
+And Ju-dah--one of Ja-cob's sons--said, Let us not kill the lad, for he
+is of our own flesh, but let us sell him to these men. And the rest
+thought it was a good scheme. So they drew Jo-seph up out of the pit
+and sold him for a small sum, and those who bought the lad took him down
+with them to E-gypt.
+
+And the bad men took Jo-seph's coat and dipped it in the blood of a kid
+they had slain. And they brought it to Ja-cob, and said, This have we
+found. Is it thy son's coat?
+
+And Ja-cob knew it at once, and said, It is my son's coat. Jo-seph has
+no doubt been the prey of some wild beast. And his grief was great.
+
+The men who bought Jo-seph brought him down to E-gypt and sold him to
+Pot-i-phar for a slave.
+
+And the Lord was with Jo-seph, who served Pot-i-phar so well, that the
+rich man put him in charge of his home and lands. But Pot-i-phar's wife
+told false tales, and Jo-seph, who had done no wrong, was thrust in-to
+jail. Pha-ra-oh was then king of E-gypt. And it came to pass that he
+fell out with his but-ler and chief cook, and had them shut up in the
+same place where Jo-seph was bound.
+
+And the man on guard put them in charge of Jo-seph, who went in and out
+of the ward as he chose. And one morn when he came in to them he saw
+they were sad, and asked them why it was.
+
+And they said, We have dreamed dreams, and there is no one to tell us
+what they mean.
+
+And Jo-seph said, Tell me them, I pray you.
+
+And the chief but-ler told his dream to Jo-seph first. And he said, In
+my dream I saw a vine, that put forth three branch-es and brought forth
+ripe grapes.
+
+And Jo-seph said to him, In three days shall Pha-ra-oh lift up thine
+head, and put thee back in thy place, and thou shalt serve him as of
+old. But think of me when it shall be well with thee; speak of me to the
+king, and bring me out of this house.
+
+And the but-ler said that he would.
+
+[Illustration: JO-SEPH'S COAT.]
+
+Then the chief cook told his dream; and he said, In my dream I had three
+white bas-kets on my head. And in the top one were all sorts of bake
+meats for the king. And the birds did eat out of the bas-ket that I bore
+on my head.
+
+And Jo-seph said to him, In three days shall Pha-ra-oh lift up thy head
+and hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat the flesh from thy
+bones.
+
+The third day was the king's birth-day, and he made a great feast. And
+he put the chief but-ler back in his place, and hung the chief cook;
+just as Jo-seph had said he would do. But the chief but-ler gave not a
+thought to Jo-seph, nor spoke one good word for him to the king, as he
+had said he would.
+
+Two years from this time the king had a dream, from which he woke, and
+then fell a-sleep and dreamt the self-same dream. This was such a
+strange thing that it made the king feel ill at ease. And he sent for
+all the wise men in the land to tell him what these dreams meant.
+
+Then the chief but-ler spoke to the king, and said that when he and the
+cook were in jail, there was a young man there, a Jew, whom the chief of
+the guard made much use of. And we told him our dreams, and he told us
+what they meant. And it came out just as he said.
+
+Then the king sent at once for Jo-seph, and said to him: In my dream I
+stood on the bank of the Nile. And there came up out of the riv-er
+sev-en fat cows, and they fed in a field near by. Then sev-en lean cows
+came up that were naught but skin and bone. And the lean cows ate up the
+fat cows. And yet no one would have known it, for they were just as
+lean as when I first saw them. Then I woke, but soon fell a-sleep once
+more.
+
+Then I dreamt, and in my dream I saw sev-en ears of corn come up on one
+stalk, full and good. And lo, sev-en ears that were thin and dried up
+with the east wind sprang up af-ter them. And the poor ears ate up the
+good ones.
+
+Jo-seph said, For sev-en years there will be no lack of food in the
+land, and all will go well; and then there will come a time of great
+want, and rich and poor will be in need of food, and not a few will
+starve to death. Let the king choose a wise man to see that corn is laid
+up in the land when the good years bring the rich growth, so that there
+will be no lack of food in the years when the crops are small.
+
+[Illustration: PHA-RA-OH'S DREAM.]
+
+And the king said to Jo-seph, Since God hath showed thee all this there
+is none so wise as thou art. So he put him in charge of all the land of
+E-gypt, and he was to rank next to the king. And the king took a ring
+from his own hand and put it on Jo-seph's hand, and when he rode out,
+men bowed the knee, and his word was law in all the land. And Jo-seph
+took a wife, and he who was brought to E-gypt a slave, was now a rich
+man.
+
+And there came years when the grain grew rank in the fields, and the
+crops were large. And Jo-seph saw that a large part of it was laid up,
+and that there was no waste of the good food. For the end of those rich
+years came and then there was a time of dearth in all the lands, when
+the earth would not yield, and men and beasts were in want of food.
+
+But there was no lack of corn in E-gypt. And Jo-seph sold the corn that
+he had stored in the barns, and crowds came in to buy it.
+
+When Ja-cob heard that corn could be bought in E-gypt, he told his sons
+to go down and buy some, that they might not starve to death.
+
+And ten of them went down to buy corn in E-gypt. But Ja-cob kept
+Ben-ja-min at home, for fear he would be lost to him as Jo-seph was
+lost.
+
+[Illustration: JO-SEPH AND HIS BROTH-ERS.]
+
+When Ja-cob's ten sons came to the place where Jo-seph was, they bowed
+down to the ground. And Jo-seph knew them at once, but they did not
+know him, or give a thought to his dreams.
+
+And Jo-seph spoke in a rough voice, and said, Whence come ye?
+
+And they said, From the land of Ca-naan to buy food.
+
+And he said, Ye are spies, and have come to see how poor the land is.
+
+And they said to him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are we come. We are
+all one man's sons; and we are true men, and not spies.
+
+But Jo-seph would have it that they were spies.
+
+And they said, There were twelve of us, sons of one man. Young
+Ben-ja-min is at home with his fa-ther, and one is dead.
+
+And Jo-seph said, Go prove that ye are not spies; let one of the ten
+that are here go and fetch the young lad, Ben-ja-min. And he put them in
+jail for three days. And he said, Let one of you be bound, and kept in
+the guard-house, while the rest of you take back the corn that you need.
+And they said that they would do this.
+
+Then he took Sim-e-on from their midst, and had him bound, and put in
+the guard-house.
+
+And he sent word to his men to fill their sacks with corn, and to put
+back the price in each sack, and to give them food to eat on the way.
+And thus did Jo-seph do good to those who did ill to him.
+
+When Ja-cob's nine sons went home they told all that had been said and
+done to them, and that the lord of the land bade them bring Ben-ja-min
+down to E-gypt or he would think they were spies, and their lives would
+not be safe.
+
+Ja-cob said, My son shall not go down with you, for his broth-er is
+dead, and he is all I have left. If harm should come to him on the way,
+I should die of grief.
+
+[Illustration: THE MEET-ING OF JO-SEPH AND BEN-JA-MIN.]
+
+When the corn they had brought from E-gypt was all gone, Ja-cob told his
+sons to go down and buy more. And Ju-dah spoke up and said, The man
+swore we should not see his face if Ben-ja-min was not with us. If thou
+wilt send him with us we will go; but if thou wilt not send him we will
+not go down.
+
+Then Ja-cob said, If it must be so, take Ben-ja-min with you, and may
+God give you grace with this man that he may send my two boys back to
+me.
+
+So the men took Ben-ja-min and went down to E-gypt, and stood face to
+face with Jo-seph.
+
+And they gave Jo-seph the gifts they had brought, and bowed down to the
+earth. And he asked how they all were, and if their fath-er was well;
+and when he saw Ben-ja-min he said, Is this the young broth-er of whom
+you spoke? And he said to the lad, God be good to thee, my son.
+
+And Jo-seph's heart was so full at sight of the boy, and he longed so to
+throw his arms round him, that he had to make haste and leave the room
+that his tears might not be seen.
+
+Then he came back and had the feast set out, and all did eat and drink,
+and were glad at heart. And when the time came for his guests to leave,
+Jo-seph told his head man to fill their sacks with corn, to put their
+gold back in the mouth of the sacks, and to put in the young lad's sack
+the cup from which Jo-seph drank at each meal.
+
+This was done, and when they had gone out of the town Jo-seph bade his
+man go and say to them: My lord's cup is lost, and you must know who
+stole it.
+
+And when the man came up with Ja-cob's sons, he said just what Jo-seph
+told him to say. And they were all in a rage, and said: Why does my lord
+say such things of us? If the cup is found on one of us, kill him; and
+make the rest of us slaves.
+
+And each one of them cast his sack on the ground, and loosed it at the
+top. And the cup was found in Ben-ja-min's sack. Then they rent their
+clothes, and in great grief went back to Jo-seph's house and found him
+there. And they fell down at his feet.
+
+[Illustration: JA-COB BLESS-ES JO-SEPH'S CHIL-DREN.]
+
+And Ju-dah said, God has found out our sins. Let us be your slaves; and
+take him as well in whose sack the cup was found.
+
+Jo-seph said, No; but the man in whose sack the cup was found shall stay
+and serve me, and the rest shall go in peace.
+
+Then Ju-dah, who had sworn that he would bring back the boy, said to
+Jo-seph: If we go home, and our fath-er sees the lad is not with us, he
+will die of grief. For his life is bound up in the lad's life.
+
+Jo-seph could not keep back his tears, and when he had sent all the men
+of E-gypt out of the room, he said to his broth-ers, Come near, I pray
+you.
+
+And they came near. And he said, I am Jo-seph, whom ye sold in-to
+E-gypt. But grieve not that ye did this thing, for God did send me here
+that I might save your lives. Go home and tell my fath-er that God hath
+made me lord of all E-gypt, and bid him come down to me at once. And say
+that he shall dwell near me, in the land of Go-shen, and I will take
+care of him.
+
+Then he fell on Ben-ja-min's neck, and they wept; and he kissed his
+broth-ers and shed tears, but they were tears of joy.
+
+Ja-cob took all that he had and went down to E-gypt. And three-score and
+ten souls went with him. And they dwelt in the land of Go-shen, and
+Ja-cob died there.
+
+Jo-seph's breth-ren thought that he would hate them now that their
+fath-er was dead. And they fell down at his feet and wept and prayed
+that he would do them no harm.
+
+Jo-seph bade them fear not, for he would take care of them and be kind
+to them. They had meant to do him an ill turn when he was a lad, but God
+had made it turn out for good, and it was all right. And Jo-seph lived
+to a good old age, and had two sons, whose names were E-phra-im and
+Ma-nas-seh.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+THROUGH THE RED SEA AND THE WILDERNESS.
+
+
+BY and by there rose up a new King in E-gypt who knew not Jo-seph. He
+was called Pha-ra-oh, as this was the name by which all the kings of
+E-gypt were known. And he said there were more He-brews, or Jews, in the
+land than there ought to be, and if war should break out, and these Jews
+should take sides with the foes of Pha-ra-oh and his race, they would be
+sure to win. So he set them hard tasks, and made them bear great loads,
+and did all he could to vex them, and still they grew in strength. God
+had said they were to be as the stars in the sky, and as the sands of
+the sea, that no one could count. And the king of E-gypt tried to stop
+this thing.
+
+And he made it a law that if a boy child was born to the He-brews it
+should be put to death at once; but a girl child might live. And this
+was the cause of great grief to the poor bond-slaves, who were forced to
+do the will of the great king.
+
+One day the prin-cess went down to bathe in the stream that ran near her
+house. And her maids went with her. And as she stood on the shore of the
+Nile, she caught sight of a small boat built like an ark, that was hid
+in the reeds, and sent her maids to fetch it out.
+
+When the prin-cess looked in the ark she saw the child. And the babe
+wept. And the prin-cess tried to soothe it, but the child cried the
+more, for her voice was a strange one. And she said, This is a He-brew
+child.
+
+And one of her maids spoke up, and said, Shall I get thee a He-brew
+nurse, that she may nurse the child for thee?
+
+And the prin-cess said, Yes; go.
+
+And the maid brought her own and the babe's moth-er, to whom the
+prin-cess said, Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will pay thee
+for it.
+
+And the wo-man took the child and took care of it.
+
+[Illustration: THE FIND-ING OF MO-SES.]
+
+And the child grew, and was brought down to Pha-ra-oh's house, and the
+prin-cess made him her son, and gave him the name of Mo-ses: which means
+"Drawn out."
+
+One day, when Mo-ses had grown to be a man, he went out to look at those
+of his own race, and to watch them at their tasks. And while he stood
+there a man from E-gypt struck one of the Jews; and when Mo-ses looked
+to the right and to the left and saw that no one was near, he slew the
+one from E-gypt and hid him in the sand.
+
+And the next day, when he went out, he saw there was a fight be-tween
+two He-brews. And he said to the one who was in the wrong, Why did you
+strike that man?
+
+And he said, Who made thee our judge? Dost thou want to kill me, as thou
+didst the one from E-gypt?
+
+And Mo-ses was scared, for he thought no one knew of this deed.
+
+As soon as it came to the ears of the king, he sought to slay Mo-ses.
+But Mo-ses fled from him, and dwelt in the land of Mid-i-an, and found a
+wife there, and took care of the flocks of Jeth-ro, his wife's fath-er.
+
+One day as he led his flock out in search of food he came to Mount
+Ho-reb, and there he saw a flame of fire stream out of a bush, and the
+bush was not burnt in the least.
+
+As he drew near the bush the Lord spoke to him out of the flame, and
+Mo-ses hid his face, for he dared not look on God.
+
+The Lord said, The cry of the chil-dren of Is-ra-el has come up to me,
+and I have seen how ill they have been used. And I will send thee to
+Pha-ra-oh that thou mayst bring them forth out of the land of E-gypt.
+
+But Mo-ses was loth to go.
+
+[Illustration: MO-SES BROUGHT BE-FORE PHA-RA-OH'S DAUGH-TER.]
+
+And the Lord said, What is that in thine hand? And Mo-ses said, A rod,
+And the Lord said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground,
+and it was changed to a snake, and Mo-ses fled from it. Then the Lord
+said to Mo-ses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And
+Mo-ses did so, and it was a rod in his hand. And the Lord said, Put now
+thy hand in on thy breast. And he put it in, and when he drew it out it
+was white, and like a dead hand. And he put his hand in once more, and
+drew it out, and it was like the rest of his flesh.
+
+Then Mo-ses said, O, my Lord, I am not fit to do this work, for I am
+slow of speech, and a man of few words.
+
+And the Lord said to him, I will be with thee, and teach thee what thou
+wilt say.
+
+Still Mo-ses was loth to go, and the Lord was wroth with him, and said,
+Take Aa-ron with thee. He can speak well. And thou shalt tell him what
+to say and do, and I will teach you, and with this rod in thy hand thou
+shalt do great things, as if thou wert God.
+
+So Mo-ses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass, and went
+back to E-gypt with the rod of God in his hand.
+
+And Mo-ses and Aa-ron went in to the king and begged him to let the
+He-brews go out of the land. And he would not, but laid more work on the
+men, and bade them make bricks with-out straw, and do all sorts of hard
+tasks.
+
+And the Lord sent plagues on the land, and the ponds dried up, and all
+the large streams were turned to blood, and the fish died, and the
+stench of them made the air scarce fit to breathe. And there was no
+wa-ter they could drink. Then there came a plague of frogs, 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 time.
+
+But the king did not keep his word, for as soon as he found the frogs
+grew less, he said the He-brews should not go.
+
+Then the Lord smote the land with lice; but still Pha-ra-oh's heart was
+hard.
+
+[Illustration: MOS-ES AT THE BURN-ING BUSH.]
+
+Then the Lord sent flies in such swarms that there was no place that
+was free from them, and they made the food not fit to eat.
+
+And the king told Mo-ses he would let the bond-slaves go to serve their
+God, but they were not to go far till the land was rid of flies. Then
+Mo-ses went forth and prayed to God, and the flies left the land. But
+still the king's heart was hard, and he would not let them go.
+
+Then the Lord sent worse plagues: the flocks and herds died; there were
+boils on man and beast; the crops did not come up, and rain, hail, and
+balls of fire came down from the sky. And still the heart of the king
+was as hard as stone. Then the Lord sent lo-custs, that ate up all the
+hail had left, and there was not a green leaf on the trees nor a blade
+of grass to be seen in the whole land.
+
+And the king bade Mo-ses to set him free from this plague. And the Lord
+sent a strong west wind, that blew the flies in-to the Red Sea. Yet
+Pha-ra-oh would not let the He-brews go.
+
+Then the Lord told Mo-ses to stretch out his hand, and there came up a
+thick cloud that made the land so dark that the folks staid in bed for
+three days. And Pha-ra-oh said to Mo-ses, Get thee out of my sight. For
+if I see thy face thou shalt die.
+
+And Mo-ses said, Thou hast well said: I will see thy face no more.
+
+And the Lord sent one more plague on E-gypt: he smote the first-born of
+men and of beasts, and a great cry was heard through the land. And then
+Pha-ra-oh had to let the chil-dren of Is-ra-el go, for he could not keep
+up this strife with God. And Mo-ses led the He-brew chil-dren out of
+E-gypt, and the Lord sent a cloud by day and a fire by night to show
+them the way.
+
+And when they were in camp by the Red Sea, they looked up and saw
+Pha-ra-oh and his hosts, and were in great fear lest he should kill
+them. And they cried out to the Lord, and blamed Mo-ses that he had
+brought them in-to such straits.
+
+[Illustration: MIR-I-AM, THE SIS-TER OF MO-SES, AND THE WO-MEN OF
+IS-RAEL SING-ING PRAISES.]
+
+As they came to the Red Sea, Mo-ses raised his rod and the sea rose like
+a wall on each side, and the chil-dren of Is-ra-el went on dry land
+through the midst of the sea.
+
+Then Pha-ra-oh and his hosts came close in the rear, and passed down
+be-tween the great sea-wall that rose at the right hand and at the left.
+And the waves that had stood still at a sign from God were let loose,
+and the king and his horse-men were swept out of sight.
+
+When the chil-dren of Is-ra-el came out of the Red Sea they were three
+days with naught to drink. And when they came to a stream, called
+Ma-rah, they found it bitter. And they said to Mo-ses, What shall we
+drink?
+
+And Mo-ses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree, and
+when he had cast a branch of it in the stream it was made sweet at once.
+And they came to E-lim, where were ten wells and three-score palm-trees,
+and there they made their camp.
+
+It was not long ere there was a great cry for bread.
+
+And Mo-ses plead with God, and when the sun went down that day quails
+flew in-to the camp, and they had all the meat they cared to eat. At
+dawn of the next day, as soon as the dew was off the ground, there came
+a rain of what was at first thought to be hail-stones.
+
+[Illustration: THE CROSS-ING OF THE RED SEA.]
+
+But Mo-ses said it was food that God had sent them to eat, and they
+were to take all and no more than they would need for one day. For they
+were to trust in God that he would feed them each day. On the sixth day
+they were to take what would last them for two days, for no food fell on
+the day of rest.
+
+This new food was called man-na.
+
+As they went on they came to Reph-i-dim, but found no wa-ter to drink.
+And they found fault with Mo-ses. And Mo-ses cried out, Lord, what shall
+I do to these, who have a mind to stone me?
+
+At this time they were near Mount Ho-reb, where God spoke to Mo-ses out
+of a bush that was on fire, yet not burnt.
+
+[Illustration: MO-SES AND THE TA-BLES OF THE LAW.]
+
+And God told Mo-ses to take his rod in his hand and go on till he came
+to a rock. And this rock he was to strike with his rod, and wa-ter would
+flow out of it. And Mo-ses did as the Lord told him, and when he struck
+the rock the wa-ter ran out.
+
+In the third month from the time they left E-gypt, the chil-dren of
+Is-ra-el came near Mount Si-na-i, and went in-to camp. And Mo-ses went
+up to the top of the Mount, and the Lord spoke to him there.
+
+On the third day a thick cloud of smoke rose from Mount Si-na-i, and a
+loud noise that made those that heard it quake with fear. And Mo-ses led
+his flock out of the camp, and they came and stood at the foot of the
+mount. And they said to Mo-ses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear;
+but let not God speak with us lest we die. But Mo-ses told them that God
+had not come to make them die, but to make them fear to do aught that
+did not please him.
+
+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 keep.
+
+[Illustration: WELL AND PALM-TREES IN THE DES-ERT.]
+
+[Illustration: THE RIV-ER NILE IN E-GYPT.]
+
+Now while Mo-ses was in the mount, face to face with God, those whom he
+had brought out of E-gypt were in camp at the foot. And Mo-ses staid so
+long that they made up their minds he would not come back. So they said
+to Aa-ron, Make us a God that we can bow down to. And Aa-ron bade them
+throw all the gold they had in-to the fire. And they did so, and it took
+the form of a calf. And when God saw this he was not pleased, but bade
+Mo-ses make haste down the mount.
+
+When Mo-ses came down from the mount with the two flat stones in his
+hands, and drew near the camp, and saw what had been done, he was in a
+great rage. He cast the blocks of stone out of his hands and broke them
+at the foot of the mount.
+
+Then he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire till
+there was nought left of it but a fine dust. And Mo-ses begged God to
+blot out the sins of those whom he had led out of E-gypt. And the Lord
+told Mo-ses to hew out two blocks of stone like to the first, and bring
+them up with him to the top of Mount Si-na-i.
+
+This Mo-ses did, and the Lord wrote on them the Ten Laws that all were
+to keep if they would reach the land they sought.
+
+They were more than two-score years on the road, and in that time they
+met with plagues, and there was strife in their midst, yet as they went
+there was the fire by night and the cloud by day to show that the Lord
+was with them.
+
+When they came to Mount Hor and were yet a long way from Ca-naan, Aa-ron
+died, and there was great grief at his loss. They were sick at heart and
+foot-sore, and spoke hard words of God and Mo-ses. There is no bread
+here for us, they said, and no wa-ter, and we loathe this man-na. And
+for this sin God sent snakes in-to their camp, and they bit the
+chil-dren of Is-ra-el so that a few of them died. Then they plead with
+Mo-ses to rid them of the snakes, and make their peace with God.
+
+And Mo-ses prayed for them. And God told him to make a snake like to
+those which bit his flock, and set it up on a pole. And all those who
+would look at this brass snake should be made well.
+
+[Illustration: MOS-ES ON MOUNT SINAI.]
+
+And Mo-ses did so. And this sign was meant to show forth Christ, who
+was to heal men of their sins, and to be raised up on a cross.
+
+[Illustration: BA-LAAM AND THE ASS.]
+
+And Mo-ses led his flock till they came to the plains of Mo-ab. And
+Ba-lak, the king of that land, thought they had come to fight with him,
+and he sent a man named Ba-laam out to curse them and drive them back.
+He told Ba-laam he would make him a rich man if he would do this thing,
+and as Ba-laam was fond of wealth he said he would do the king's will.
+So he set forth on his ass, and had not gone far when he met an an-gel
+with a drawn sword in his hand. Ba-laam did not see him, but the ass
+did and turned out of the road. But the an-gel went on and stood in a
+place where there was a wall on each side.
+
+When the ass came to the place she went close to the wall and tried to
+get by. But she hurt Ba-laam's foot and he struck her and made her go
+on. And the an-gel went on and stood in a place where there was no room
+to turn to the right hand or the left.
+
+Then the ass shook with fright and fell down on the ground. And Ba-laam
+struck her with the staff that he had in his hand.
+
+And the Lord made the ass speak like a man, and say, What have I done to
+thee that thou hast struck me these three times?
+
+Ba-laam said, To make thee move on: I would there were a sword in my
+hand, for I would kill thee.
+
+Then the ass said, Am I not thine? and have I been wont to do so to
+thee? And Ba-laam said, No. Then the Lord made Ba-laam see the an-gel
+that stood in the way with a drawn sword in his hand, and Ba-laam bowed
+his face to the ground.
+
+Then the an-gel said, Why hast thou struck thine ass these three times?
+Lo, I came out to stop thee, and to turn thee from the way of sin. And
+the ass saw me, and turned from the path, and if she had not done so I
+would have slain thee.
+
+Then he said to Ba-laam, Go with the men the king has sent, but say
+on-ly what I shall tell thee.
+
+So Ba-laam went with the men, and when Ba-lak heard that he was come he
+went out to meet him. The next day Ba-lak took Ba-laam to a high place,
+from whence he could look down on the camp of Is-ra-el, and curse them.
+
+But the Lord would not let him curse them, but made him speak good
+things of them. This was done on three high mounts, and at last the king
+was wroth, and said to Ba-laam, I sent for thee to curse my foes, and
+lo, these three times hast thou blest them.
+
+[Illustration: MO-SES ON MOUNT NE-BO.]
+
+And Ba-lak bade him make haste and go back to his own home. And Ba-laam
+went off as poor as he came, for Ba-lak gave him none of his gold.
+
+The Lord brought Mo-ses and his flock to the banks of the Jor-dan, which
+they would have to cross to reach the land of Ca-naan. And while they
+were there, Mo-ses went up to the top of Mount Ne-bo to talk with God.
+And God told him how large the land was that he would give to the
+chil-dren of Is-ra-el. And he said that Mo-ses should look on it, but
+should not step foot in the land. And Mo-ses died on Mount Ne-bo, and
+though an old man, was well and strong till the Lord took him. And no
+one knows in what part of the earth his grave was made.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+HOW JOSHUA AND JEPHTHAH FOUGHT FOR THE LORD.
+
+
+WHEN Mo-ses died, Josh-u-a took charge of the chil-dren of Is-ra-el, and
+sought to do God's will, as Mo-ses had done. And Josh-u-a sent word
+through the camp that in three days they would cross the Jor-dan. And
+when they set foot in the stream the waves stood back as they did in the
+Red Sea, and they went through Jor-dan on dry ground. And as they came
+up out of the stream the waves closed up and there was no path-way
+through them.
+
+The chil-dren of Is-ra-el made their camp at a place called Gil-gal; and
+as there was no lack of food in this good land, the Lord ceased to rain
+down man-na for them to eat.
+
+The next day Josh-u-a left the camp and came near to the walls of
+Jer-i-cho. There he met a man with a drawn sword in his hand. And
+Josh-u-a said, Art thou for us or for our foes?
+
+And the man said, As prince of the Lord's host am I now come. And at
+these words Josh-u-a fell on his face to the earth; for he knew it was
+the Lord that spoke to him.
+
+[Illustration: PASS-ING THROUGH THE JOR-DAN.]
+
+The Lord told Josh-u-a to have no fear of the king of Jer-i-cho, for
+the chil-dren of Is-ra-el should take the town. All their men of war
+were to march round the town once each day for six days. Some of the
+priests were to bear the ark, which held the things they made use of
+when they went in to talk with God, and some were to blow on rams'
+horns.
+
+And the next day--when the six days were at an end--they were to march
+round the town sev-en times, and the priests were to blow their horns.
+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 ground, and they
+could march in and take the town.
+
+Josh-u-a bade his men do all the Lord had said; and told them to make no
+noise with their voice as they went their rounds till he bade them
+shout. And when the priests blew their horns for the last time, Josh-u-a
+cried, Shout! for the Lord is with us! and there was a great shout and
+the wall fell, and they took the town; and the fame of Josh-u-a spread
+through all the lands.
+
+Josh-u-a fought with more than a score of kings and won their lands from
+them; but yet there was much land in Ca-naan for which the chil-dren of
+Is-ra-el would have to fight.
+
+But as the years went on, Josh-u-a grew so old that he could not lead
+his men to war as he used to do. And he called his flock to him and
+told them how good the Lord had been to them. And he bade them love the
+Lord and serve him, and put from them all strange gods. He said, Choose
+ye this day whom ye will serve; but as for me and my house we will serve
+the Lord.
+
+[Illustration: JOSH-U-A AND THE STONE OF WIT-NESS.]
+
+And the men said, The Lord hath done great things for us, and him will
+we serve, for he is our God.
+
+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-loh. And this stone, he said,
+was to be a sign of the vow they had made there to serve the Lord. And
+when the talk was at an end, the men went to their own homes.
+
+And ere long Josh-u-a died. And they laid him in the part of the land
+that God gave him as his own, on the north side of the hill of Ga-ash.
+
+Then the chil-dren of Is-ra-el went to war with the tribes that were in
+the land of Ca-naan, as Josh-u-a had told them to do. But they did not
+drive them all out, as they should have done, but made friends with
+those that were left, and were led in-to sin, and were made to serve as
+bond-slaves. And when they were sick of their sins, and sought the help
+of the Lord, he sent men to rule them, and to lead them out to war and
+set them free from these friends who proved to be the worst kind of
+foes.
+
+Now there was a man in Is-ra-el whose name was Jeph-thah. He was a brave
+man, and had done great deeds, but the chil-dren of Is-ra-el were not
+kind to him, so he fled from their land, and went to live in the land of
+Tob. But when the Jews had need of a man to lead them out to war, they
+thought of Jeph-thah. And they said, Come, and be at the head of us
+when we go out to fight the Am-mon-ites.
+
+And Jeph-thah said, If I go with you, and win the fight, will you make
+me judge in Is-ra-el?
+
+And they said they would.
+
+Now ere the fight took place, Jeph-thah made a vow that if the Lord
+would let him win he would give to God--that is, 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 home.
+
+Jeph-thah should not have made this rash vow, and need not have kept it
+if he had asked God to for-give the sin.
+
+He went out to fight the Am-mon-ites, and by the help of the Lord the
+chil-dren of Is-ra-el were set free from them.
+
+[Illustration: JEPH-THAH AND HIS DAUGH-TER.]
+
+When the fight was at an end Jeph-thah went back to his home, and the
+first to come out to meet him was his own child, a fair young maid,
+whose face was bright with joy. She was all the child that Jeph-thah
+had, and when he saw her he rent his clothes and told her of the vow he
+had made.
+
+And she said, My fath-er, if thou hast made a vow to the Lord, do with
+me as thou hast said. And he took his child and did to her as he had
+said he would, and all the young girls in Is-ra-el wept for her.
+
+Jeph-thah was a judge for six years, and then he died.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+SAMSON: THE STRONG MAN.
+
+
+THE Jews kept on in their sins, and took no pains to please the Lord,
+and so fell in-to the hands of the Phil-is-tines.
+
+And there was at that time a man in Is-ra-el whose name was Ma-no-ah.
+Both he and his wife served the Lord; and they had no child. 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 Lord, and to do
+his work.
+
+Ere long Ma-no-ah and his wife had a son, to whom they gave the name of
+Sam-son.
+
+And the child grew, and the Lord blest him. And when he was grown up he
+went to Tin-muth, where he met a Phil-is-tine wo-man and fell in love
+with her.
+
+Then his pa-rents plead with him to find a wife in Is-ra-el, and not to
+take this one who was no friend to his race. But Sam-son would not give
+her up.
+
+So they went with him to Tin-muth. And on the way a li-on ran out and
+roared at him. And Sam-son put his arms round the beast and tore him
+with his hands as if he had been a young kid. But he did not tell his
+fath-er and moth-er what he had done.
+
+The time soon came when Sam-son was to set the Jews free from the
+Phil-is-tines. And he went down to one of their towns and slew a few of
+their men, and then went back to his own home, while his wife stayed in
+Tin-muth.
+
+When it was time to bring the wheat in from the field, Sam-son went down
+to see his wife, and took with him a young kid. But when he came to the
+house her fath-er would not let him go in, and told him that she was his
+wife no more, but had gone to live with some one else. Then Sam-son was
+in a great rage, and he went and caught more than ten score fox-es, and
+set bits of wood on fire, and tied these fire-brands to their tails, and
+let them loose in the fields and vine-yards of the Phil-is-tines.
+
+And they set fire to the grain, and burnt it all up.
+
+And the grape-vines and fruit trees were burnt, and much harm was done.
+
+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 death. And Sam-son
+fought and slew a host of the Phil-is-tines, and then went on the top of
+a high rock called E-tam to stay there.
+
+Then a crowd of men went up with a rush to the top of the rock, and they
+said to Sam-son, We have come to bind thee, that we may give thee in-to
+the hands of the Phil-is-tines.
+
+Sam-son made them swear that they would not put him to death, and they
+bound him with strong cords and brought him down from the rock.
+
+As they drew near the camp of the Phil-is-tines a great shout went up
+from the men there. And the Lord gave Sam-son such strength that he
+broke the cords from his arms as if they had been burnt threads.
+
+And Sam-son took up the jaw-bone of an ass, and with it he fought the
+Phil-is-tines and slew a host of them.
+
+[Illustration: SAM-SON SLAY-ING THE PHIL-IS-TINES.]
+
+Then a great thirst came on him, and there was no well near from which
+he could drink. 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 foes.
+
+And the Lord made a spring at that place and wa-ter ran out, and when
+Sam-son had drunk, his strength came back to him.
+
+Sam-son came to the town of Ga-za, and went in a house there. Now the
+Phil-is-tines dwelt in Ga-za, and when they heard that Sam-son was there
+they shut the gates of the town, and kept watch near them all night.
+They said when the day dawns we will kill him.
+
+But in the dead of the night Sam-son rose up and came to the gates of
+the town, and when he found them shut he took them up--posts, bar and
+all--and bore them a long way off to the top of a hill.
+
+Sam-son's hair had not been cut, and it had grown thick and long. And
+there was a wo-man named De-li-lah whom Sam-son used to go and see. 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 off, they would
+give her a large sum of gold.
+
+So when Sam-son came to De-li-lah's house she said to him, Tell me, I
+pray thee what makes thee so strong, and with what thou couldst be bound
+and not break loose?
+
+Sam-son said if they bound him with sev-en green withes--that is, cords
+made out of soft twigs--he would be so weak that he could not break
+them.
+
+When De-li-lah told this to the Phil-is-tines they brought her sev-en
+green withes, and Sam-son let her bind him with them. Now she had men
+hid in her house who were to take Sam-son if he could not break the
+twigs. And when she had bound him she cried out, The Phil-is-tines seize
+thee, Sam-son! And as soon as she had said these words he broke the
+green withes as if they were burnt threads.
+
+Then De-li-lah knew that Sam-son made fun of her and told her lies, and
+she said once more, Tell me, I pray thee, with what thou canst be bound
+and not break loose.
+
+[Illustration: SAM-SON CAR-RY-ING THE GATES OF GA-ZA.]
+
+Sam-son told her if he were bound with new ropes, which had not been
+used, that his strength would leave him, and he would be too weak to
+break them.
+
+So she took new ropes and bound him. But ere the men who were hid in the
+room could spring out and take him, Sam-son broke the ropes from his
+arms as if they had been threads.
+
+Then De-li-lah told Sam-son that he did but mock her and tell her lies,
+and she begged him to let her know how he might be bound.
+
+And he said if she would weave his hair with the web in the loom his
+strength would go from him. And she wove his long hair in with the web,
+and made it fast with a large peg that was part of the loom.
+
+Then she cried out, and Sam-son rose up and went off with the great peg,
+and the whole of the web that was in the loom.
+
+Then she said he did not love her or he would not make sport of her in
+this way. And she teased him each day, and gave him no peace, so that at
+last he had to tell her the truth.
+
+He said his hair had not been cut since he was born, and if it were
+shaved off he would lose all his strength.
+
+It was wrong for Sam-son to tell her this, for she was bad at heart and
+not a true friend. But he did not know then how great was his sin.
+
+De-li-lah knew that this time Sam-son had told her the truth; so she
+sent for the Phil-is-tines to come up to her house.
+
+Then while Sam-son slept, she had a man come in and shave all the hair
+from his head. And when this was done she cried out, The Phil-is-tines
+seize thee, Sam-son.
+
+[Illustration: SAM-SON AND DE-LI-LAH.]
+
+And he woke from his sleep, and knew not his strength had gone from him.
+
+Then the Phil-is-tines took him and put out his eyes, brought him down
+to Ga-za, and bound him with chains of brass. And they made him fast to
+a mill-stone, and he had to work hard to grind their corn.
+
+While he was shut up in jail Sam-son had time to think of his sins, and
+he no doubt cried out to the Lord to keep him. For his hair grew out
+and his strength came back. But the Phil-is-tines did not know this.
+
+They had made their own god, and its name was Da-gon. And they thought
+that Da-gon gave Sam-son in-to their hands, and loud was their praise of
+him. 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
+thanks.
+
+The crowd was great, and their hearts were full of joy. And they said,
+Send for Sam-son that he may make sport for us. And poor blind Sam-son
+was brought in, and sat down in their midst. And those in the house and
+those on the roof made sport of him in all sorts of ways.
+
+And Sam-son put his arms round two of the great posts that held up the
+house. And he bent down, and the house fell, and most of the
+Phil-is-tines were killed. Sam-son died with them, and by his death slew
+more of the foes of Is-ra-el than he had slain in all his life.
+
+[Illustration: SAM-SON DE-STROYS THE TEM-PLE.]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+RUTH.
+
+
+WHILE Is-ra-el was ruled by a judge whose name has not come down to us,
+a dearth came on the land of Ca-naan. And one of the Jews who dwelt in
+Beth-le-hem, took his wife and his two sons and went to stay for a while
+in the land of Mo-ab. His wife's name was Na-o-mi. The man died while
+they were in Mo-ab, and in a few years each of the sons took him a wife.
+And their names were Or-pah and Ruth. At the end of ten years the sons
+died, and Na-o-mi and their wives dwelt in the land of Mo-ab.
+
+When Na-o-mi heard there was no lack of food in Is-ra-el, she made up
+her mind to go back to Beth-le-hem to live.
+
+She told Or-pah and Ruth of her plan, and said if they choose to stay in
+the land of Mo-ab, where they were born, they might do so.
+
+And they kissed her and wept and said they would go with her. But she
+bade them stay where they were, and at last Or-pah, with tears in her
+eyes, kissed Na-o-mi good-bye and went back to her own home. But Ruth
+would not leave her. She told Na-o-mi not to urge her to go, for nought
+but death should part them.
+
+[Illustration: RUTH AND NA-O-MI.]
+
+So they went to the town of Beth-le-hem where Na-o-mi used to live.
+
+It was the days when the grain was ripe in the fields, and the men had
+gone out to cut it down.
+
+And Na-o-mi had a kins-man in Beth-le-hem, whose name was Bo-az, and he
+was a rich and great man. And Ruth said to Na-o-mi, Let me now go to the
+fields and glean the ears of corn.
+
+To glean is to pick up. And poor folks, who had no fields of their own,
+went to pick up that which was left on the ground for them.
+
+[Illustration: RUTH.]
+
+And Na-o-mi told Ruth to go. And she went out and came to the field that
+was owned by the rich man, Bo-az.
+
+When Bo-az saw Ruth he asked the men who she was, and where she came
+from. And one of them said, She came with Na-o-mi from the land of
+Mo-ab. And she said to us, I pray you let me glean where the field has
+been reaped. And we told her she might, and she has been there for some
+hours. Then Bo-az went to Ruth.
+
+So she went out each day to his field, and gleaned there till the grain
+was all cut and in the barns.
+
+Na-o-mi said to Ruth, Bo-az will win-now the bar-ley to-night. To
+win-now is to fan, or to drive off by means of a wind. The grain was
+first threshed, then thrown from the hands up in the air. The wind would
+blow off the chaff and the good grain would fall to the ground.
+
+[Illustration: BO-AZ AND RUTH.]
+
+Na-o-mi told Ruth to go in and speak to Bo-az the things she told her.
+So Ruth did as Na-o-mi said, and went down to the fields where Bo-az and
+his men were.
+
+When she came back to Na-o-mi she told her all that she had said and
+done.
+
+The next day Bo-az went down to the gate of Beth-le-hem, and told all
+the chief men whom he met there that he meant to make Ruth his wife. And
+the men said they would make it known, and prayed the Lord would bless
+Ruth and add to the fame and wealth of the rich and great Bo-az.
+
+So Bo-az took Ruth for his wife. And they had a son O-bed. And Na-o-mi
+was its nurse.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI.
+
+JOB.
+
+
+THERE was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was a good man
+and tried to do all that was right in the sight of the Lord. And God
+gave him ten chil-dren: sev-en boys and three girls. He gave Job great
+wealth, too, so that there was no man in all that part of the world as
+rich as he was.
+
+When Job's sons were grown up and had homes of their own, they used to
+make feasts in turn, and send for their three sis-ters to come and eat
+and drink with them. And Job kept them in mind of all they owed to God,
+and urged them to lead good and true lives, and to do no wrong.
+
+When Job had lived at his ease and been a rich man for a long term of
+years, a great change took place. He lost all his wealth, and all his
+chil-dren; for it was God's will to try him and see how he would bear
+these ills.
+
+One day one of his men came to him in great haste, and said, While we
+were in the field with the ploughs, a band of thieves came and drove off
+the ox-en and ass-es and slew thy men who were with them, and I a-lone
+am left to tell thee.
+
+While this man spoke, there came up one who said, A great fire has come
+down from the sky and burnt up thy sheep, and all those who took care of
+them, and I a-lone am left to tell thee.
+
+While he yet spoke, a third man came and said, Thy foes came and took
+all thy cam-els, and slew the men who had charge of them, and I a-lone
+am left to tell thee.
+
+Then a fourth came, and said, Thy chil-dren were at a feast in the house
+of thy first-born son, when there came a great wind that broke down the
+house, and it fell on the young men and they are all dead, and I a-lone
+am left to tell thee.
+
+When Job heard these things he tore his clothes, and bowed down to the
+earth, as if at the feet of God. And he said, I had nought when I came
+in-to the world, and I shall have nought when I die and go out of it.
+God gave me all that I had, and God took it from me. He knows what is
+best for me, and I thank him for all that he has done. So Job did not
+sin, nor speak ill of God, though his grief was so great and had come
+up-on him in such a strange, swift way.
+
+To try Job still more, God let him get sick and he was in great pain.
+Boils came on him and from head to foot he was a mass of sores.
+
+Then his wife came to Job and said, Dost thou still trust God? Do so no
+more, but curse him, though he kill thee for it.
+
+Job said, Thou dost not speak wise words. When we have so much good from
+God, shall we not be con-tent to take our share of the ills he may send?
+In all this Job said not a word that was wrong.
+
+Now Job had three friends, who, when they heard of his hard lot, came to
+talk with him and cheer him. But when they saw him, the change was so
+great they did not know him.
+
+Then they rent their clothes and wept, and sat down on the ground near
+him, but did not speak for some time, for they could see that his grief
+was great. These friends thought that Job must have done some great sin,
+else these ills would not have been sent up-on him. When they spoke to
+him they said, If thou hast done wrong, do so no more, and God will free
+thee from thy pains.
+
+[Illustration: JOB, AND HIS FRIENDS.]
+
+Now Job knew that he had done no wrong, and he said to them, You came
+to soothe me, but what you say does not soothe me at all. Did I send for
+you, or ask you to help me? If you were in such grief as I am, I might
+say hard things of you and call you bad men. But I would not do so; but
+would speak kind words to you, and try to help you bear your ills, and
+to make your grief less.
+
+Then Job spoke of his own griefs, and said: O, that the Lord would put
+me to death that I might suf-fer no more. When I lie down at night I
+can-not sleep, but toss on my bed in pain and wish the day would dawn.
+Or, if I fall a-sleep for a while, I have the worst kind of dreams, so
+that I would be glad to die and wake no more in this world. O, that I
+had some one to speak to God for me, for he does not hear when I pray.
+Yet I know that he lives who will save my soul, and that he will come on
+the earth, and I shall rise up from my grave and see God for my-self.
+
+But when Job found that he could not die, nor be made well, but must
+still bear his pains, he grew cross, and was not at all like the Job of
+old. He found fault, and said that his griefs were too great, and that
+God was not kind to put him in such pain.
+
+His three friends did not try to calm him, or to cheer him with the hope
+that his woes would soon be at an end, nor did they bid him trust in God
+and seek help and strength from him. But they told him that he must
+have done some great wrong, else God would not have sent all these ills
+up-on him.
+
+This did not please Job, and he spoke to them in great wrath, and they
+spoke back in the same style.
+
+When they had talked in this way for some time, and had each of them
+said things they ought not to have said, they heard a voice speak to
+them out of a whirl-wind that swept by the place. It was the voice of
+God.
+
+And the voice spoke to Job and told him of the great works that God had
+done; that it was he who made the earth, the sea, and the sky. He sends
+the rain on the field to make the grass grow and the flow-ers to spring
+up. He sends the cold and the heat, the frost and the snow, and the ice
+that stops the flow of the streams. He sends the clouds, and the roar
+and the flash that come from them when the storms rage. He made the
+horse that is so swift and strong, and has no fear in time of war, but
+will rush in-to the fight at the sound of the trump.
+
+All this and more the voice spoke from the whirl-wind. And when God had
+told Job of all these great works, he asked him if he could do these
+things, or if he thought he was so wise that he could teach God what it
+was best to do.
+
+Then Job saw what a sin it was to find fault with God. And he was full
+of shame, and said: My guilt is great; I spoke of that of which I knew
+naught, and I bow down in the dust be-fore thee.
+
+God said to Job's three friends, I am wroth with you, for you did not
+speak in the right way to Job. Now, lest I pun-ish you, take sev-en
+young bulls and sev-en rams and burn them on the al-tar, and ask Job to
+pray for you, for him will I hear. So they did as the Lord told them,
+and Job prayed for them, and God for-gave them their sins.
+
+In a short time Job was well once more. His pains all left him; and then
+his friends and all his folks came to see him and they had a good feast.
+And each man brought him a rich gift, and the Lord blest him more than
+he had done be-fore, and gave him twice as much wealth. He had great
+herds of sheep, and cam-els, and ox-en and ass-es, and large fields for
+them to roam in, and a host of men to care for them. So that he was a
+great man once more.
+
+And God gave him ten chil-dren: sev-en boys and three girls. And when
+these girls grew up, there were no maids in all the land so fair as they
+in face and form. And Job had great peace of mind, and dwelt at his ease
+for long, long years; and when he died he was an old, old man.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII.
+
+SAMUEL, THE CHILD OF GOD.
+
+
+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 hosts.
+And his wife, whose name was Han-nah, went with him. The man's name was
+El-ka-nah.
+
+[Illustration: SAM-U-EL.]
+
+E-li was the high-priest at that time, and as he sat in the Lord's house
+he saw Han-nah on her knees with her eyes full of tears.
+
+And he spoke to her in a kind voice, and said: May God grant thee what
+thou dost ask of him. And Han-nah was glad at the high-priest's words,
+for she had asked God to give her a son.
+
+And the Lord gave Han-nah a son, and she called his name Sam-u-el, which
+means "Asked of the Lord."
+
+Sam-u-el was quite young when Han-nah took him up to the house of the
+Lord at Shi-loh. And when they brought the child to E-li, Han-nah said,
+I am the wo-man that stood by thee here and prayed to the Lord. For this
+child did I pray, and the Lord heard me and gave me what I asked for. So
+I have brought him to the Lord; so long as he lives shall he be the
+child of God. For this was the vow she made if God would give her a son.
+
+And Sam-u-el was left to stay with E-li in the Lord's house.
+
+Now E-li had two sons, and they were priests in the Lord's house. But
+they were not fit for the place, for they were bad men, and broke God's
+laws. And by their sins they kept men from the house of the Lord.
+
+But Sam-u-el, though a young child, did what was right and pleased the
+Lord. And his moth-er made him a coat, and brought it to him each year
+when she and her hus-band went up to Shi-loh. And E-li spoke kind words
+to them, and asked the Lord to bless them for the sake of the child whom
+they gave to him.
+
+Now E-li was an old man, and when he heard of all the things his sons
+had done, he did not drive them out of the Lord's house as he should
+have done, but let them go on in their sins. He cared more to please his
+sons than he did to please the Lord.
+
+[Illustration: HAN-NAH PRE-SENTS SAM-U-EL TO E-LI.]
+
+One night when E-li and Sam-u-el lay down to sleep, the child heard a
+voice speak his name. And he said, Here am I. And he got up and ran to
+E-li, for he thought it was his voice, and he said, Here am I, for thou
+did'st call me.
+
+E-li said, I did not call thee, my son. Go back, and lie down. And the
+lad did so.
+
+In a short time he heard the same voice say, Sam-u-el--Sam-u-el.
+
+And he rose at once and went to E-li, and said to him, Here am I, for
+thou did'st call me. But E-li said, I did not call thee, and sent the
+lad back to his bed once more.
+
+Then Sam-u-el heard the voice a third time, and went to E-li and said,
+Here am I, for thou did'st call me.
+
+And E-li knew it was the Lord who spoke to Sam-u-el. And he said to the
+lad, Go, lie down, and if he call thee, say, Speak, Lord, for I hear
+thee.
+
+And Sam-u-el went and lay down. And the Lord came for the fourth time,
+and called, Sam-u-el--Sam-u-el!
+
+And Sam-u-el said, Speak, Lord, for I hear thee.
+
+And the Lord told Sam-u-el all that he meant to do to the house of E-li.
+He had let his sons go on in their sins, and they were to be put to
+death in a way that would make men fear God.
+
+Sam-u-el lay still till day-light. Then he rose, but did not dare to
+tell E-li what God had told him.
+
+But E-li called him and said, What did the Lord say to thee? I pray thee
+hide it not from me.
+
+So Sam-u-el told E-li all that the Lord had said. When E-li heard it, he
+said, It is the Lord, let him do what he thinks is best.
+
+And Sam-u-el grew, and the Lord was with him and blest him, and it was
+known to all that he was one of God's saints, who could fore-tell things
+that were to take place. Such wise men were some-times called seers.
+
+The words which God spoke to Sam-u-el came true; for the chil-dren of
+Is-ra-el went out to fight the Phil-is-tines, and a host of them were
+slain.
+
+Those who came back said, Let us take the ark out with us to save us
+from our foes.
+
+[Illustration: CAP-TURE OF THE ARK.]
+
+Now God had not told them to take the ark, and it was a sin for them to
+touch it. They should have put their trust in the Lord, and looked to
+him for help.
+
+But they sent to Shi-loh for the ark, and E-li's two sons came with it.
+When it was brought to the camp the Jews gave such a shout that the
+earth shook with the noise.
+
+And when the Phil-is-tines heard it, they said, What does it mean? And
+they were told that the ark of the Lord had been brought to the camp of
+Is-ra-el.
+
+And they were in great fear; for they said, God is come to the camp! Woe
+un-to us, for this is the first time such a thing has been done!
+
+And they said, Let us be strong and fight like men, that we may not be
+slaves to these Jews!
+
+So they fought once more with the Jews, and slew a host of them, and the
+rest fled to their tents. And the ark of the Lord fell in-to the hands
+of the foe, and E-li's two sons were slain.
+
+And the same day a man ran down to Shi-loh, with his clothes rent, and
+bits of earth on his head to show his grief.
+
+E-li sat on a seat by the way-side, where he kept watch, for he was in
+great fear lest harm should come to the ark of God. And when the man
+came through the crowd and told that the ark was lost, all cried out
+with great fear. And when E-li heard the noise, he said, What is it?
+What do those sounds mean? For his eyes were dim with age, and he could
+not see.
+
+And the man ran up to E-li and said, I am he that came out of the
+fight, and I fled from there to-day.
+
+And E-li said, What word hast thou, my son?
+
+[Illustration: THE RE-TURN OF THE ARK.]
+
+And he said that Is-ra-el had been put to flight with great loss, his
+two sons were dead, and the ark of God in the hands of the
+Phil-is-tines.
+
+When the man spoke of the ark of God, E-li fell off the seat by the
+side of the gate, and broke his neck, and died there. And he had been a
+high priest and a judge in Is-ra-el for two-score years.
+
+And the ark of God was with the Phil-is-tines for more than half the
+year, and to each place where it was sent it brought great grief.
+
+So at last they sent for their wise men, and said to them, What shall we
+do with the ark of the Lord? To what place shall we send it?
+
+And the wise men told them to make a new cart, and tie two cows to it,
+but to bring the calves home with them. Then they should put the ark on
+the cart, and let the cows draw it where they would.
+
+If the cows should leave their calves and go down to the land of
+Is-ra-el, it would be a sign that the Lord was their guide, and that he
+had sent these ills on the Phil-is-tines for their great sins.
+
+But if the cows did not take the ark, it would show that the Lord did
+not want it back, and that all these ills they had to bear had come by
+chance, and were not sent from the Lord.
+
+So the Phil-is-tines did as their wise men said. They took the two cows
+and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. And they
+laid the ark on the cart, and let the cows go where they chose.
+
+And the cows took the straight road to the land of Is-ra-el till they
+came to a place called Beth-she-mesh.
+
+The Jews who dwelt there were out in the wheat fields. And the cows
+brought the cart to the fields of a man named Josh-u-a, and stood there
+by a great stone.
+
+Then some of the men of Le-vi came and took the ark and set it on the
+stone. And they broke up the cart, and burnt the cows as a gift of
+praise to the Lord.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII.
+
+SAMUEL THE MAN OF GOD.
+
+
+WHEN E-li died, Sam-u-el was made a judge in Is-ra-el. And he went from
+place to place to teach men the law. And as the ark had not been brought
+back to Shi-loh, Sam-u-el built an al-tar in his own house and served
+God there.
+
+The chil-dren of Is-ra-el set up strange gods, and the Phil-is-tines
+went to war with them. And Sam-u-el told them to give up their false
+gods and serve the Lord, and he would save them from their foes. And
+they did so. And he said, Come up to Miz-peh, and I will pray to the
+Lord for you.
+
+And they came to Miz-peh, and gave their hearts to the Lord, and were in
+grief for their sins.
+
+And when the Phil-is-tines heard they were at Miz-peh, they went up to
+fight them. And the chil-dren of Is-ra-el were in great fear, and
+Sam-u-el plead for them, and when the fight came on the Lord sent a
+fierce storm that put the Phil-is-tines to flight, and they fled from
+the field with great loss.
+
+And Sam-u-el set up a stone at Miz-peh, and gave it the name of
+Eb-en-e-zer--"The Stone of Help."
+
+When Sam-u-el was an old man he set his two sons to judge Is-ra-el. But
+his sons were not just men, and did not rule as their fath-er had done.
+If a man did wrong, they would say it was right if he paid them for it.
+And the wise men came to Sam-u-el, and said to him, As thou art old, and
+thy sons walk not in thy ways, make us a king to judge us.
+
+Sam-u-el felt hurt when they asked him to choose a king, and asked the
+Lord to tell him what to do.
+
+And the Lord told Sam-u-el to choose a king for them.
+
+Now there was a man whose name was Kish, and he had a son whose name was
+Saul, a tall young man of fine form and good looks.
+
+And the ass-es of Kish were lost. And he said to Saul, his son, Take one
+of the men with you, and go find the ass-es.
+
+And they went a long way and could not find them. And Saul said to the
+man with him, Come, let us go back, lest my fath-er think we are lost.
+
+[Illustration: THE STONE OF HELP.]
+
+And the man said to Saul, There is a man of God here, and what he says
+is sure to come to pass. It may be that he can tell us what we ought to
+do Saul said, Thy word is good; come, let us go. And they went to the
+town where Sam-u-el, the man of God, was. And they met him on their way.
+
+And the Lord made it known to Sam-u-el that this was the man he should
+choose to reign in Is-ra-el.
+
+And Saul drew near to Sam-u-el, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where
+the seer's house is.
+
+And Sam-u-el said, I am the seer; and the ass-es that were lost are
+found. And he took Saul and his man to his own house, and made them
+spend the night there.
+
+The next day Sam-u-el took Saul to the roof of his house, and had a talk
+with him.
+
+Then they went out on the street, and as they drew near the gate of the
+town, Sam-u-el said to Saul, Bid thy man pass on, but do thou stand
+still for a while, that I may show thee the word of God.
+
+Then Sam-u-el took a horn of oil and poured it on Saul's head.
+
+This was done when a man was made a high-priest; and the same thing was
+done when he was made a king. And God was pleased with Saul, and gave
+him a new heart; but as yet none but these two knew that Saul was to be
+King of the Jews.
+
+Sam-u-el spoke to the chil-dren of Is-ra-el and told them once more all
+that the Lord had done for them, how he had brought them out of the land
+of E-gypt, and set them free from their foes, and yet they would not
+serve the Lord, but cried out for a king. So he bade them all go up to
+Miz-peh that the Lord might choose them a king.
+
+[Illustration: SAUL IN HIS HID-ING PLACE.]
+
+And the Lord chose Saul. But when the men went to seek for him, they
+could not find him. And the Lord said, He hath hid in the midst of the
+stuff. And they ran and brought him out, and he was so tall that all the
+rest had to look up to him.
+
+And Sam-u-el said, This is he whom the Lord hath sent to rule thee.
+There is none like him, as thou canst see.
+
+And they all cried out, God save the king! Then Sam-u-el told them what
+they were to do, and how the king was to rule, and wrote it down in a
+book.
+
+When Saul had been king for two years, he set out with his son,
+Jon-a-than, to fight the Phil-is-tines. And a great host went with them.
+And the Phil-is-tines had more men than they could count. And when the
+Jews saw the strength of their foes, they were in great fear, and ran
+and hid in caves and pits, or fled to the high hills where the rocks
+would screen them. So there were but few left to go out with Saul, and
+they shook with dread.
+
+And Saul came to Gil-gal, where he was to meet Sam-u-el, but he was not
+there. Sam-u-el had told him to wait for him, and he would tell him what
+he was to do.
+
+But at the end of a week Saul had the flesh brought to him and laid on
+the stone, and he set fire to it, that the flame might rise to God and
+bring peace to the land. And as soon as Saul had done this thing,
+Sam-u-el came. And Saul went out to meet him, that he might bless him.
+
+And Sam-u-el said, What hast thou done?
+
+And Saul told of the strait he was in, and that the Phil-is-tines were
+near in great force, 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 hour.
+
+Sam-u-el told him that he had done wrong. When the Lord told him to
+wait, he should wait. And now his reign would be a short one, and God
+would choose a new king to take his place.
+
+In those days men fought with bows and ar-rows. And while the Jews were
+held as slaves by the Phil-is-tines they would not let them have swords
+or spears, lest they should rise up and kill them.
+
+And they sent all the smiths out of the land, lest they should make
+these things for the chil-dren of Is-ra-el.
+
+So when they went out to fight none of them had a sword or a spear but
+Saul and his son.
+
+In those days men wore coats of mail, and bore a shield with them so as
+to ward off the darts. These shields were made of a thick piece of wood,
+on which the skin of an ox was stretched when dried.
+
+Jon-a-than, Saul's son, wore a coat of mail, and had a man to bear his
+spear and his shield when he did not care to use them. And he said to
+his man, Come, let us go to the camp of the Phil-is-tines. For it may be
+that the Lord will help us.
+
+And the man said he would go.
+
+Jon-a-than said this should be their sign: They would go where the foe
+could see them, and if they said, Wait there till I come to you, they
+would know the Lord did not mean to help them. But if the Phil-is-tines
+said, Come up to us and we will show you some-thing, they would go up,
+for the Lord would be with them.
+
+So Jon-a-than and his man stood out where the foe could see them. And
+the Phil-is-tines made sport of them, and cried out, Come up to us, and
+we will shew you some-thing.
+
+And the two went up the rocks on their hands and feet, and fought with
+the Phil-is-tines, and slew a score of them. And the Lord shook the
+earth, so that the Phil-is-tines were in great fear.
+
+Now Saul and the men who were with him did not know what his son had
+done. But his watch-man, who was on the look-out, saw that there was a
+fight in the camp of the Phil-is-tines, and told Saul of it.
+
+And Saul and his men went to join in the fight. And all those who had
+hid in caves and holes, or up on the mount, when they heard that the
+Phil-is-tines had fled, went with Saul, and Is-ra-el won the day.
+
+But Saul did not de-sire to please the Lord in all things. For when the
+Lord sent him out to fight King A-gag, he told Saul to wipe him and all
+he had from the face of the earth. But Saul kept back some of the
+spoils, the best of the sheep and lambs, and did not put the king to
+death as he should have done.
+
+And the Lord told Sam-u-el that Saul was not a good king, and his reign
+should be short.
+
+And it made Sam-u-el sad to hear this, and he prayed to God all night.
+Then he had a talk with Saul, who did not look at his sins in the right
+light. And Sam-u-el told him that his reign as king would soon be at an
+end.
+
+[Illustration: DA-VID A-NOINT-ED BY SAM-U-EL.]
+
+God told Sam-u-el not to mourn for Saul, but to go down to Beth-le-hem,
+to the house of a man named Jes-se, one of whose sons was to be made
+king. And the Lord said he was not to look for one with a fine face or
+form. For the Lord sees not as man sees, and he looks on the heart.
+
+So he went down to Beth-le-hem, and did as the Lord told him. And Jes-se
+had his sev-en sons pass one by one be-fore Sam-u-el. And Sam-u-el
+thought that the first-born must be the one whom God chose to be king.
+But the Lord told him he was not the one. And they all went by, and not
+one of them was the one on whom God had set his seal.
+
+And Sam-u-el said to Jes-se, Are these all thy sons?
+
+And Jes-se said, No there is yet one left; but he is quite a lad, and is
+now in the field where he cares for the sheep.
+
+And Sam-u-el told Jes-se to send for him at once. And Jes-se sent for
+him, and he was brought in, and his cheeks were red, and his eyes
+bright. And the Lord said to Sam-u-el, Rise--for this is he.
+
+And Sam-u-el rose, and took the horn of oil and poured it on the young
+man's head. So the Lord chose Da-vid to be king when Saul should be put
+out of the way.
+
+And Da-vid felt a great change in his heart, for the Lord was there to
+make him strong and wise, and fit for the high place he was to fill.
+
+But there was no peace in Saul's heart, and his mind was ill at ease.
+
+And his men said it might soothe him to have some one play on the harp.
+For sweet sounds will some-times calm the mind.
+
+So Saul said, Find a man who can play well on the harp, and bring him to
+me.
+
+And one of them said that he knew such a man. He was the son of Jes-se,
+who dwelt at Beth-le-hem, and his name was Da-vid.
+
+And Saul sent men to Jes-se and told him to send Da-vid, his son, who
+kept the sheep.
+
+And Da-vid came to Saul, and stayed with him to wait on him. And when
+Saul was sad and ill at ease, Da-vid would take his harp and play for
+him, and he would soon be well.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV.
+
+DAVID AND SAUL.
+
+
+WHILE Saul was yet king, the Phil-is-tines came forth once more to fight
+the chil-dren of Is-ra-el. And Saul and his men went out to meet them.
+There were two high hills on each side of a deep vale, and from these
+two hills the foe-men fought.
+
+The Phil-is-tines had on their side a man who was more than ten feet
+high. He wore a coat of mail, and was bound with brass from head to
+foot, so that no sword or spear could wound him.
+
+And he cried out to Saul's men, Choose a man from your midst and let
+him come down to me. If he can fight with me and kill me, then we will
+be your slaves. But if I kill him then you must serve us. I dare you to
+send a man to fight with me.
+
+When Saul and his men heard these words they were in great fear, for
+there was no one in their ranks who would dare fight with such a gi-ant.
+
+And each morn and eve, for more than a month, this great man, whose name
+was Go-li-ath, drew near Saul and his troops and dared them to send a
+man out to fight him.
+
+Now when the war broke out three of Jes-se's sons went with Saul, but
+Da-vid went back to Beth-le-hem to feed sheep.
+
+And Jes-se said to Da-vid, Take this parched corn and these ten loaves
+of bread, and run down to camp and bring me back word how thy broth-ers
+are.
+
+And Da-vid rose up the next morn, and found some one to take care of his
+sheep, and went as his fath-er told him.
+
+And he came to the camp just as the men were on their way to the fight,
+and the air was filled with their shouts.
+
+And he left the goods he had brought in the care of a man, and ran in
+the midst of the troops, and spoke to his three broth-ers.
+
+And while he stood there, Go-li-ath came out from the ranks of the
+Phil-is-tines, and dared some one to fight with him.
+
+And Da-vid heard his words. And the men of Is-ra-el fled from his face.
+And Da-vid heard them speak of what would be done to the man who should
+kill him; for the king would give him great wealth, and set him in a
+high place.
+
+And Da-vid spoke to the men near him, and made use of strong words.
+
+And his broth-ers told him to go home and take care of his sheep, for it
+was just a trick of his to come up to camp that he might see the fight.
+
+[Illustration: DA-VID BE-FORE SAUL.]
+
+Da-vid said, I have done no wrong! and the men to whom he spoke went and
+told Saul what he had said. And Saul sent for him, but did not know
+that he was the same one who used to play on the harp for him.
+
+And Da-vid told Saul he would go out and fight the great man from Gath.
+And Saul said, Thou art but a youth, and he has been a man of war all
+his days.
+
+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 flock. And, said
+he, this man is no more than a wild beast, and the Lord will save me
+from him as he did from the paw of the li-on and the bear.
+
+And Saul said, Go, and the Lord go with thee. And Saul put on him a coat
+of mail, and clothed him in brass from head to foot, and hung a sword at
+his side. But Da-vid took them all off, and said, I have not tried them,
+and can-not use them.
+
+And he took his staff in his hand, and chose five smooth stones from the
+brook and put them in a bag that he wore. And his sling was in his hand
+when he drew near to Go-li-ath.
+
+Go-li-ath came near to Da-vid, and when he saw what a youth he was, he
+drew up his head with great scorn.
+
+Da-vid ran to meet him, and put his hand in his bag and drew forth a
+stone, and slung it, 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 earth.
+
+[Illustration: DA-VID WITH GO-LI-ATH'S HEAD.]
+
+Then Da-vid ran and stood on Go-li-ath, and drew his sword from its
+sheath, and slew him and cut off his head.
+
+And when the Phil-is-tines saw that the man in whom they had put their
+trust was dead they fled.
+
+And Da-vid came back from the fight with the head of Go-li-ath in his
+hand, and was brought to Saul.
+
+And Saul would not let Da-vid go back to his own home, but made him stay
+with him. And Jon-a-than fell in love with him, and to show his love,
+took off all the rich clothes he had on and put them on Da-vid, and gave
+him his sword, his bow, and his belt. And Da-vid did as Saul told him,
+and all who saw him were pleased with him, and Saul put him at the head
+of his men of war.
+
+But when King Saul and his men went through the towns on their way back
+from the fight, the folks came out and sang and danced to praise them
+for what they had done.
+
+But they said more in praise of Da-vid than of Saul, and when Saul heard
+it he was wroth, and from that day ceased to be Da-vid's friend.
+
+The next day Da-vid stood near Saul with his harp in his hand to play
+him some sweet tunes. And Saul held a spear in his hand, and he cast it
+at Da-vid so that it would go through him and pin him to the wall. But
+Da-vid saw it and took a step one side, and it did him no harm.
+
+Twice was this done, and when Saul found that he could not hurt Da-vid,
+he was in great fear of him, for he knew the Lord was with him. So he
+drove Da-vid from his house, and sent men to lay in wait to kill him.
+
+[Illustration: JON-A-THAN AND DA-VID.]
+
+But Da-vid fled from them and ran to the place where Jon-a-than was, and
+said to him, What have I done that the king seeks my life?
+
+Now Jon-a-than did not know that the king meant to kill Da-vid, so he
+said to him, Thou shalt not die. My fath-er would have told me if he
+meant to kill thee. But Da-vid said it was true.
+
+The next day was to be a feast day, and the king would look for Dav-id
+to come and eat with him. But Da-vid was in such fear of Saul that he
+did not care to go, and begged Jon-a-than to let him hide him-self for
+three days. If the king asks where I am, said Da-vid, tell him that thou
+did'st give me leave to go home.
+
+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 there. And Jon-a-than said he
+would shoot three ar-rows as if he took aim at a mark. And he would send
+a lad out to pick them up. And if he said to the lad, Go, find them,
+they are on this side of thee, then Da-vid might know that all was at
+peace and the king would do him no harm. But if he should cry out that
+the darts were be-yond the lad, then Da-vid would know that he must
+flee, for the king meant to do him harm.
+
+So Da-vid hid him-self in the field; and when the feast day came Saul
+sat down to eat with his back to the wall. And he saw that Da-vid was
+not in his place, but said not a word. The next day when he found Da-vid
+was not in his place, Saul said to his son, Why comes not Da-vid to eat
+these two days?
+
+Jon-a-than said that Da-vid pled so hard for leave to go home to his
+own folks, that he had told him to go, and that was why he was not at
+the feast.
+
+Then Saul was in a great rage, and said to his son, As long as Da-vid
+lives thou canst not be a king. Send for him, and bring him here that he
+may be put to death.
+
+And Jon-a-than said, Why should he be slain? What hath he done?
+
+[Illustration: JON-A-THAN SHOOT-ING THE AR-ROWS.]
+
+Saul threw his spear at Jon-a-than. And the young man knew by this that
+the king meant to kill Da-vid. So the next morn the king's son went out
+to the field, and took a lad with him. And he said, Run now, and pick up
+the ar-rows that I shoot.
+
+And as he ran, Jon-a-than sent a dart o'er his head; and when the lad
+came to the place where it fell, the king's son cried out, It is be-yond
+thee. Make haste, and stay not.
+
+Da-vid heard these words and knew that he must flee, for if Saul caught
+him he would kill him.
+
+The lad brought the darts to Jon-a-than, and did not know why the king's
+son had shot them and called out to him as he did. And Jon-a-than gave
+him his bow and ar-rows, and sent him back to town with them.
+
+As soon as the lad was gone, Da-vid came out from the place where he was
+hid, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then he
+rose and threw his arms round Jon-a-than's neck, and the two friends
+wept as if their hearts would break.
+
+Then Da-vid fled from Saul, and hid in the woods and caves.
+
+Saul went out with a large force of men to seek Da-vid on the rocks
+where the wild goats fed. And Saul came to a cave, and went in to lie
+down and rest.
+
+Da-vid and his men were in the cave, but Saul could not see them. And
+the men wished to kill Saul; but Da-vid would not let them. While he was
+there Da-vid stole up to Saul and cut off a piece of his robe. And Saul
+did not know it.
+
+[Illustration: DA-VID AND SAUL.]
+
+When Saul went out of the cave, Da-vid went out af-ter him and cried
+out, My lord and my king!
+
+And when Saul looked back, Da-vid bowed down to him with his face to the
+earth. And he told Saul to pay no heed to those who said he meant to
+harm the king. For if he had sought to kill Saul he might have done so
+that day while he was in the cave. And Da-vid showed Saul the piece of
+his robe he had cut off.
+
+And some bade me kill thee, said Da-vid, but I would not, for thou art
+my lord and my king. Then Da-vid held up the piece of cloth he had cut
+from Saul's robe, and said, Since I was so near thee as to cut this off
+and did not kill thee, thou may'st know that I have no wish to harm
+thee. Yet thou dost hunt for me to kill me. Let the Lord judge 'twixt
+thee and me, and save me from thy hand, and save thee as he will, for I
+will not harm thee.
+
+When Saul heard Da-vid speak thus, all hate went out of his heart, and
+he wept as he said, Thou hast done good to me for the wrongs I did thee,
+and may the Lord bless thee for it. Now I know that thou wilt some day
+be the king of Is-ra-el.
+
+And Saul went home, and Da-vid and his men went back to the cave.
+
+But Da-vid knew that he could not trust Saul, so he fled to the land of
+the Phil-is-tines, and he and his men dwelt there in the town of Gath
+for the space of a year and four months.
+
+[Illustration: DA-VID TAKES GO-LI-ATH'S SWORD.]
+
+While he was there, the Phil-is-tines went out to fight with Saul once
+more, and when he saw what a host of them there was, his heart shook
+with fear. He asked the Lord what he should do, but the Lord did not
+come to him in dreams, or speak one word to him.
+
+Sam-u-el was dead, and the Lord had said it was a sin to go to a witch,
+or a seer, to find out the things that would take place, and Saul had
+sent all these folks out of the land.
+
+But now he was in such a strait that he felt he must have help of some
+sort. And one of his men told him there was at En-dor a witch who could
+work strange charms, and fore-tell what was to take place. So the king
+drest him-self so that he would not be known, and went at night with two
+of his men to see the witch of En-dor. And he said to her, Bring me up
+him whom I shall name to thee.
+
+And the witch said to him, Dost thou not know that Saul has sent all
+those that work charms out of the land? And why dost thou set a snare
+for my life, so that I will be put to death?
+
+And Saul said, As the Lord lives there shall no harm come to thee for
+this thing.
+
+Then the witch said, Whom shall I bring up to thee? And he said, Bring
+me Sam-u-el.
+
+So the witch made strange signs and spoke strange words, and swept her
+wand round and round. And when she saw the form of Sam-u-el rise up, she
+cried with a loud voice, Why did'st thou not tell me the truth? for thou
+art Saul!
+
+And the king said, Have no fear. What did'st thou see?
+
+And the witch said, I saw an old man with a cloak round him.
+
+And Saul knew it was Sam-u-el, and bowed his face to the ground. And
+Sam-u-el said, Why hast thou brought me up? And Saul told him that he
+was in a great strait, that God had left him, and did not come to him in
+dreams or by the hand of wise men, and he thought that Sam-u-el might
+tell him what to do.
+
+Sam-u-el said, Why then dost thou ask of me if the Lord hath left thee?
+He hath done to thee just as he said he would. Thy reign is at an end,
+and Da-vid shall rule in thy stead. And he told Saul that the next day
+he and his sons would be dead, and Is-ra-el in the hands of the foes.
+
+When Saul heard these words he fell down in a swoon, for he had had no
+food for a day and a night.
+
+And the witch brought bread and bade him eat, that he might have
+strength to go on his way. And Saul and his men ate of the food, and
+went their way that night.
+
+Now the lords of the Phil-is-tines brought all their troops to a place
+called A-phek. And the king of Gath went there, and took Da-vid and his
+men with him. 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 Saul.
+
+So Da-vid and his men had to leave the camp, and the Phil-is-tines went
+out to fight, and the men of Is-ra-el fled from them with great loss.
+The king's three sons were slain, and an ar-row struck Saul and gave him
+a bad wound.
+
+And Saul said to the man who bore his shield, Draw thy sword and put me
+to death. But the man did not dare to kill his king. So Saul took his
+own sword and fell on it, and thus died by his own hand. And when the
+man saw that Saul was dead, he fell on his sword and died with him.
+
+And when it was known that Saul and his sons were dead, the Jews fled
+from that part of the land, and the Phil-is-tines went to live there.
+
+In the course of a few years Da-vid was made king of Is-ra-el, and then
+went to live at Je-ru-sa-lem. He went to war, and took spoils of rich
+kings, and the Lord was with him, for he sought to do that which was
+right and just.
+
+Da-vid had two sons: Sol-o-mon and Ab-sa-lom.
+
+And in all the land there was no man with such a fine face and form as
+Ab-sa-lom, and he won much praise for his good looks. And he had a thick
+growth of long hair. But Ab-sa-lom had a bad heart, and his sins made
+Da-vid weep. But he did not scold Ab-sa-lom as he should have done, for
+the king was fond of his son, and so Ab-sa-lom went on from bad to
+worse.
+
+He told what he would do when he was king, and made friends with those
+who thought it a fine thing to be on good terms with the king's son.
+
+When he was two-score years of age, Ab-sa-lom said to the king, Let me,
+I pray thee, go up to Heb-ron to pay my vows.
+
+And Da-vid told him to go. But it was not to serve the Lord that
+Ab-sa-lom went, but to have him-self made king in-stead of Da-vid. And
+he took ten score men with him, who did not know why or where they went,
+and sent spies all through the land to speak in his praise and urge that
+he be made king.
+
+[Illustration: DA-VID FOR-GIV-ING AB-SA-LOM.]
+
+And when Da-vid heard of it he said to his men, Rise, let us flee from
+this place, lest Ab-sa-lom come and put us to death.
+
+And they all fled from Je-ru-sa-lem, and went to hide in some lone
+place. 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 king.
+A-hith-o-phel, who had once been a friend of Da-vid, and had now gone
+with the king's son, had said that he would go out with a large force
+and come up with Da-vid when he was weak and faint, so that he would be
+in a great fright. Those who were with Dav-id would flee, and he would
+soon put the king to death. Then, of course, Ab-sa-lom would be king.
+
+But Ab-sa-lom would not do this till he had heard what Hu-sha-i said.
+Now Hu-sha-i was a true friend of Da-vid, and he told Ab-sa-lom to take
+more men than A-hith-o-phel had said, for he thought that would give
+Da-vid a chance to get out of the way. And Hu-sha-i sent two young men
+to tell Da-vid not to stop on the plains that night, but to cross the
+Jor-dan, lest he and all who were with him should be put to death.
+
+But a boy saw the two sons of the high-priest who were on their way to
+Da-vid, and went and told Ab-sa-lom. And the priest's sons ran to a
+house near by, and hid in the well. And the wo-man who kept the house
+spread corn on top so that no one could see that a well was there.
+
+And when Ab-sa-lom's men came in and asked the wo-man where the priest's
+sons were, she said they had gone on past the brook Ked-ron. And when
+the two could not be found the men went back.
+
+Then the priest's sons came up out of the well, and made haste to give
+to Da-vid the word that Hu-sha-i had sent. And at dawn Da-vid and all
+his men crossed Jor-dan.
+
+As soon as Ab-sa-lom had all the men he thought he would need, he set
+out to fight with Da-vid. And Da-vid drew up his men in line, and put
+Jo-ab at their head. And the king said, I will go out with you. But the
+men said he should not; so Da-vid staid by the gate and saw them go out
+to the fight, and bade them be kind to Ab-sa-lom for his sake.
+
+[Illustration: THE DEATH OF AB-SA-LOM.]
+
+The fight took place in a wood. Ab-sa-lom rode on a mule, and as the
+mule passed 'neath a great oak, Ab-sa-lom's head caught in a branch, and
+he hung in mid air, while the mule went off down the road.
+
+And a man saw it and told Jo-ab. And Jo-ab said, Why did'st thou not
+kill him? And the man said he would not kill the king's son, for he had
+heard Da-vid ask them to be kind to him.
+
+But Jo-ab said, I can-not waste time with thee. And he took three darts
+in his hand and thrust them through Ab-sa-lom, so that he died. And he
+was thrown in-to a pit that was in the wood, and a great heap of stones
+was piled on him. And all the men who had been with him went back to
+their tents.
+
+[Illustration: DA-VID HEAR-ING OF AB-SA-LOM'S DEATH.]
+
+Da-vid sat in the gate, and when men came back with news of the fight,
+he would ask of each one, Is Ab-sa-lom safe? And at last one of them
+said, May all the king's foes be as this young man is. Then Da-vid knew
+that Ab-sa-lom was dead, and he went to his own room and wept.
+
+And he cried out with a loud voice, O, my son, Ab-sa-lom; my son, my son
+Ab-sa-lom! I would that God had let me die in thy stead, O, Ab-sa-lom,
+my son, my son!
+
+Da-vid was king for two-score years, and was an old man when he died and
+had hosts of friends. And when he felt that his death was near, he bade
+his men take Sol-o-mon to a place called Gi-hon, and pour oil on his
+head. Then they were to blow the horn and cry out. God save King
+So-lo-mon.
+
+And this was done; and when Da-vid died, Sol-o-mon sat on his throne and
+ruled Is-ra-el.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV.
+
+SOLOMON, THE WISE MAN.
+
+
+SOL-O-MON gave his heart to God when he was young, and tried to lead a
+good life, and to do no wrong. And God spoke to him in a dream one night
+and said, Ask what I shall give thee.
+
+And So-lo-mon said, Grant me, I pray thee a wise mind that I may know
+right from wrong, and judge well those who look up to me as their king.
+
+This speech pleased the Lord, and he said, Since thou didst not ask me
+for great wealth, or for long life, or that thy foes might be put to
+death, I will make thee wise, and will give thee both great wealth and a
+long life if thou wilt serve me and keep my laws.
+
+There came two wo-men to the king. And one of them said, My lord, I and
+this wo-man live in one house, and we each of us had a son. And this
+wo-man's child died in the night, and while I slept she came and took my
+child from me, and laid her own child by my side. And when I woke, and
+went to feed my child, it was dead. And I knew it was not my son.
+
+It is your son.
+
+It is not; the child that lives is mine.
+
+The dead child is yours.
+
+[Illustration: THE JUDG-MENT OF SOL-O-MON.]
+
+In this way they spoke, and the king heard them, and said, Bring me a
+sword!
+
+And a sword was brought to him.
+
+And the king said, Cut the live child in two, and give half to one and
+half to the oth-er.
+
+When the real moth-er of the child heard these words she cried out, O my
+lord, give her the child, but do not kill it.
+
+But the oth-er said, Cut it in half, and let it not be hers or mine.
+
+Then the king told his men to give the child to the one who tried to
+save its life, for he knew that she was the moth-er. And it was to find
+this out that he sent the men for the sword, and not to take the child's
+life.
+
+[Illustration: SHIPS OF SOL-O-MON.]
+
+When Sol-o-mon had been king for four years, he laid out the plan that
+Da-vid had made for the house of the Lord.
+
+He had a talk with Hi-ram the king of Tyre, and told him that it was
+time to build the house. And the King of Tyre was glad, and did all he
+could to aid him. He sent So-lo-mon great trees from the woods, and sent
+him men to help in the work; men who had skill with the ax, and with
+fine tools of all sorts.
+
+The house was built of stone, and each stone was hewn from the rock, cut
+so as to fit in the wall ere it was brought to the place where it was to
+stand, so that no ax nor tools should be used in the house when it was
+put up.
+
+The walls of the rooms were in-laid with gold, and gems, and the floor
+of the place where the ark was kept was of pure gold, and in front of
+the shrine were loops and chains of fine gold.
+
+The doors of the house were made of the wood of the fir tree, and they
+were carved with great skill, and touched up with gold.
+
+It took Sol-o-mon sev-en years to build the house of the Lord; and when
+it was done he made a feast, and the priests brought the ark of the Lord
+from Mount Zi-on where Da-vid kept it.
+
+And all the tribes of Is-ra-el came to Je-ru-sa-lem, that they might be
+there when the ark was brought.
+
+And when the ark was put in its place, and the priests came out, there
+was such a cloud in the house that all stood still. For the Lord was in
+the cloud.
+
+Then Sol-o-mon stood up, and with raised hands asked him to come down
+and dwell in the house, and to dwell in men's hearts, that they might
+walk in the right way, and love God all their days.
+
+[Illustration: QUEEN OF SHE-BA.]
+
+Now the fame of Sol-o-mon came to the ears of a rich queen, who dwelt at
+She-ba, and she thought she would like to see if this man was as wise
+and rich as he was said to be. She had a long way to come, and a great
+train came with her, and these brought loads of rich spice, and gold and
+sil-ver and gems of worth. And the queen had a talk with Sol-o-mon and
+he told her all she ought to know.
+
+And she said to the king, What I had heard of thee in my own lands I did
+not think could be true. So I came to see for my-self, and I find the
+half was not told to me. So she gave rich gifts to Sol-o-mon, and he
+gave rich gifts to her, and the queen went back to her own land.
+
+Now it was thought no sin in those days for a man to have more than one
+wife. And some of Sol-o-mon's wives had been brought up to serve false
+gods. And it was a sin for the king to wed with such. And as he grew old
+these wives made him serve their Gods, and turn from the true God whom
+he had been taught to love and fear.
+
+And this did not please to Lord, and he said that Sol-o-mon's son should
+not be king when Sol-o-mon died. For Da-vid's sake he would let him be a
+prince of two tribes all the days of his life. But ten tribes he would
+take from him.
+
+And foes rose up to plague Sol-o-mon, and for his sins he had to give up
+the peace and rest that had long been his. When he had been king for
+two-score years Sol-o-mon died, and his fame has come down to this day,
+for no man has been born in-to the world so wise and great as King
+Sol-o-mon.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI.
+
+ELIJAH.
+
+
+A-HAB was the last of the six kings who ruled the ten tribes. And he
+made them serve Ba-al, and built a house for this false god.
+
+These acts did not please God, so he sent E-li-jah, a seer, to tell
+A-hab that for years and years there should be no rain in the land. And
+he told E-li-jah to hide near a brook from which he should drink, and
+the birds of the air would bring him food to eat.
+
+E-li-jah did as the Lord told him, and he drank from the brook, and the
+birds brought him his food from day to day. But as there was no rain,
+the brook dried up, and there was lack of food in the land.
+
+So the Lord told E-li-jah to go to the town of Za-re-phath, where a
+wo-man dwelt who would give him food.
+
+And when E-li-jah came to the gate of the town, a poor wo-man drew near
+him to pick up some sticks. And he said to her, Bring me a drink, I pray
+thee.
+
+And as she went, he said, Bring me, I pray thee, a bit of bread in thine
+hand.
+
+[Illustration: E-LI-JAH FED BY RA-VENS.]
+
+And she said, As the Lord lives, I have no bread in the house, and but a
+hand-ful of meal, and a few drops of oil. And I came out to pick up a
+few sticks that I might light the fire, and bake a small loaf for me and
+my son, that we may eat it and die.
+
+[Illustration: E-LI-JAH AND THE WID-OW's CHILD.]
+
+E-li-jah said, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said. But first make me
+a small loaf, and then make one for thee and thy son. For thus saith the
+Lord, The meal shall not waste, nor the cruse of oil fail till the day
+the Lord sends rain on the earth.
+
+So the wo-man went her way and did as E-li-jah told her, and there was
+from that time no lack of food in her house. But one day her son was
+ill, and he grew worse and worse, and then died.
+
+When E-li-jah heard of it, he said, Give me thy son. And he took the
+child from her arms and bore him to his own room, and laid him on his
+bed.
+
+And E-li-jah cried to the Lord, and said, O Lord, I pray thee let this
+child's soul come back to him.
+
+And the Lord sent back the soul of the child, and E-li-jah took the boy
+and brought him to his moth-er.
+
+And she said to E-li-jah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God,
+and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth.
+
+For three years there had been no rain in the land, and at the end of
+that time the Lord said to E-li-jah, Go show thy-self to A-hab, and I
+will send rain on the land.
+
+So E-li-jah went, and on the way he met with one of A-hab's head men,
+who loved the Lord. He knew E-li-jah, and bade him turn back, for the
+king would be sure to put him to death. But E-li-jah said that he would
+show him-self to A-hab that day. So the man told the king that E-li-jah
+was near, and the king came out to meet him.
+
+And he found fault with E-li-jah, for he thought he was to blame for the
+lack of food, and for the long drouth.
+
+E-li-jah told the king to have all those he ruled meet in a mass at one
+place. And when they came there, E-li-jah cried out to them, How long
+will ye turn your hearts from God?
+
+And he told them to prove which was the true God, Ba-al or E-li-jah's
+God. And he told them to bring two young bulls, and to take the flesh of
+one and lay it on the wood in front of Ba-al, and he would lay the flesh
+of the oth-er young bull on the Lord's al-tar. And he said, Call ye on
+your gods and I will call on mine, and let the God that sends down fire
+be the God whom we all shall serve.
+
+And they said it was a good plan.
+
+So they cried out from sun-rise till noon, O Ba-al hear us! But there
+was no voice or sign that their god heard them.
+
+E-li-jah said, Cry with a loud voice for he is a god. He may be a-sleep,
+or lost in thought.
+
+[Illustration: THE LIT-TLE CLOUD.]
+
+And they cried, and made a great noise, and at last fought with their
+knives till they drew blood.
+
+And E-li-jah said, Come near me.
+
+And they all came near to him.
+
+And E-li-jah took twelve stones, and built an al-tar to the Lord. And he
+put the flesh and the wood on it, and the wood was wet through and
+through.
+
+Then he cried out, Hear me, O Lord, hear me, and let it be known that
+thou art the true God.
+
+Then fire came down from on high and burnt up the flesh, and the wood
+and the stones, and the dust; and the ground that had been made so wet
+was as dry as it could be.
+
+And when the crowd saw this they all bowed down to the ground, and said,
+The Lord he is God! The Lord he is God!
+
+And they broke up the false gods, and gave their hearts for a while to
+the Lord.
+
+Then E-li-jah told A-hab that he might eat and drink, for the rain would
+soon set in. And he went to the top of a high mount to pray for rain.
+Not a cloud was in the sky. The sea was calm. But E-li-jah knew that he
+must watch, and wait, and pray, and the sign would come.
+
+At last there rose up out of the sea--that is, where the sea and sky
+seem to meet--a small cloud, the size of a man's hand. And soon the sky
+was black with clouds, and the wind blew, and there was a great storm of
+rain.
+
+Now A-hab had a bad wife, and when he told her what E-li-jah had done,
+she made a vow to kill him.
+
+And E-li-jah had to flee for his life. 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 die. While he slept, an an-gel drew near, at whose touch
+E-li-jah woke. And the an-gel said, Rise and eat.
+
+[Illustration: E-LI-JAH AND KING A-HAB.]
+
+And E-li-jah found food and drink set out for him. And he ate and drank,
+and then lay down and slept. And the an-gel came once more, and bade
+E-li-jah eat, that he might have strength to go on his way. And he sat
+up, and ate the food the Lord had sent, and it gave him such strength
+that he went with-out food for more than a month. And at the end of that
+time he came to Mount Ho-reb. And he went to a cave and lay down and
+slept there.
+
+And the Lord spoke to him, and said, Why art thou here, E-li-jah? And
+E-li-jah said the chil-dren of Is-ra-el had not kept their word, but had
+gone back to their false gods, and slain all those who sought to turn
+them from their sins. And I have fled from them, said E-li-jah, for they
+seek my life.
+
+[Illustration: E-LI-JAH IN THE WIL-DER-NESS.]
+
+The Lord said, Go forth, and stand on the mount. And there came a great
+wind that split the high hills, and broke up the rocks. But the Lord was
+not in the wind.
+
+Then the earth shook, so that there was no firm ground on which to walk;
+and smoke came up out of the great cracks that were made. But the Lord
+was not in the earth-quake.
+
+Then there came a still, small voice. When E-li-jah heard it he hid his
+face in his cloak, and went out and stood at the door of the cave.
+
+And the voice said, Why art thou here, E-li-jah? And El-li-jah said that
+he fled from those who sought to kill him. And the Lord told him to
+leave the cave, and go back and pour oil on the head of E-li-sha, who
+was to take his place.
+
+And E-li-jah found E-li-sha at work with the plough in a large field.
+And as he went by him he threw his cloak round E-li-sha.
+
+And E-li-sha knew that this meant he must leave all and go with
+E-li-jah. And he went home to bid fare-well to his dear ones there, and
+then came back to be near E-li-jah and to wait on him.
+
+[Illustration: E-LI-JAH GOES TO HEAV-EN.]
+
+Now the time drew near when E-li-jah was to leave the earth. And he and
+E-li-sha stood near the shore of the Jor-dan. And E-li-jah took his
+cloak and struck the waves, and they made a wall on each side, and the
+two men went through on dry land. And as they stood on the oth-er side,
+E-li-jah said to E-li-sha, Ask what I shall do for thee, ere I leave
+thee.
+
+And E-li-sha said, Let me, I pray thee, be twice as good and wise as
+thou.
+
+E-li-jah said, Thou dost ask a hard thing. But if thou dost see me when
+the Lord takes me from thee, then it shall be so. But if thou dost not
+see, then it shall not be so.
+
+So they went on, and while they yet spoke, there came a great light in
+the sky, and the clouds took on strange forms. And E-li-jah was caught
+up as if by a whirl-wind, and E-li-sha cried out as he saw him pass
+through the sky, but he was soon out of sight, and E-li-sha saw him no
+more.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII.
+
+ELISHA.
+
+
+AS E-li-jah rose from the earth he let his cloak fall on E-li-sha. And
+E-li-sha went down to the Jor-dan, and took the cloak and struck the
+waves, and they stood up on each side, so that he went a-cross dry
+shod. 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 place, and he gave proof that the
+Lord was with him.
+
+As E-li-sha went from Jer-i-cho to Beth-el, some young folks ran out and
+made fun of him, and cried, Go up, thou bald head! Go up, thou bald
+head!
+
+E-li-sha turned back, and asked the Lord to take them in hand. So the
+Lord sent two great bears out of the wood, and they fell on the
+chil-dren and tore o-ver two-score of them.
+
+[Illustration: THE CHIL-DREN OF BETH-EL.]
+
+One day E-li-sha came to Shu-nem, where a rich wo-man dwelt. And she
+bade him come in and eat. And as oft as he went that way, he made it a
+rule to stop and take the food and drink she set out for him.
+
+And she had a room built for him on the side of her house, and put a bed
+and a chair in it, that he might go in and out as he chose, and have a
+place to rest in.
+
+And one day when he was in this room, he sent for the wo-man to come to
+him. And he said to her, What can I do to pay thee for all thy kind care
+of us? Shall I speak to the king for thee? She said there was no need,
+that she sought no pay, and then left the room.
+
+E-li-sha said to his man, What is there that I can do for her?
+
+And the man said, She has no child.
+
+And E-li-sha said, Call her. And she came back and stood at the door.
+And when the man of God told her that she should have a son, she thought
+he did not speak the truth.
+
+And the word of the Lord came true, for in less than a year she had a
+son.
+
+And the child grew up, and went out one day to the field to see the men
+reap the corn. And while he was there he felt sick, and cried out to his
+fath-er, My head! my head!
+
+And his fath-er said to a lad, Take the boy home to his moth-er. And she
+took him, and he sat in her lap till noon, and then died. And she took
+the boy to E-li-sha's room, and laid him on the bed of the man of God,
+and then went out and shut the door.
+
+Then she sent for one of the young men, and had him bring an ass to the
+door, and she got on the ass, and bade the man drive as fast as he could
+till she told him to stop.
+
+She went till she came near Mount Car-mel. And E-li-sha saw her, and
+sent Ge-ha-zi out to meet her, and to ask her if it was well with her
+and with the child. And she said to him, It is well.
+
+But when she came to E-li-sha she fell at his feet, and Ge-ha-zi drew
+near to push her from the man of God.
+
+But E-li-sha said, Touch her not. She is in great grief, and the Lord
+has hid it from me and not told me of it.
+
+And the wo-man said, Did I ask thee for a son? Then he knew that the boy
+was dead.
+
+Then E-li-sha said to Ge-ha-zi, Take my staff, and go thy way with all
+speed. Stop to speak to no one. And lay my staff on the face of the
+child.
+
+And the moth-er of the child said, As the Lord lives, I will not leave
+thee. And E-li-sha rose and went with her, while Ge-ha-zi ran on a-head.
+And he laid the staff on the face of the child, but the child did not
+speak nor hear. And he ran out to meet E-li-sha and to tell him the lad
+did not wake.
+
+And when E-li-sha came to the house he found the child dead, and laid on
+his bed. So he went in the room and shut the door, and prayed to the
+Lord.
+
+Then he got on the bed, and lay on the child till his flesh grew warm.
+Then he left the room for a-while to walk up and down, and when he went
+back he lay on the child till its breath came back, and it gave signs of
+life.
+
+And he sent for the moth-er. And when she came to the room he said, Take
+up thy son. And she fell at the feet of E-li-sha, with thanks too deep
+for words, and then took her son in her arms and went out.
+
+There was a man in Sy-ri-a, who took charge of all the troops that went
+to war with the king. This man's name was Na-a-man, and he had done
+brave deeds, for which he held high rank, and was much thought of. But
+this man fell ill, and none but those of his own house would go near
+him. And there was no cure for him. But his wife had a maid to wait on
+her. And this maid said that if Na-a-man would go to E-li-sha she was
+sure that he would cure him.
+
+And Na-a-man came down to Sa-ma-ri-a with a note from his own king to
+the king of Is-ra-el. When the king of Is-ra-el read the note he was
+ve-ry wroth, and said, Am I God that I can bring the dead to life? For
+he thought that it was but a trick to bring on a war.
+
+[Illustration: E-LI-SHA AND THE CHILD.]
+
+When E-li-sha heard that the king rent his clothes, he sent word to have
+Na-a-man come to him.
+
+And Na-a-man drove up in fine style, and stood at the door of E-li-sha's
+house. And E-li-sha sent word to him to bathe at the Jor-dan sev-en
+times, and he would be made well.
+
+This put Na-a-man in a rage, for he thought that E-li-sha would come out
+to him and call on the name of God, and touch him so as to heal him.
+
+And he said, Are there not streams in Da-mas-cus in which I can bathe
+and be made well? And he went off in a rage.
+
+But some of his men drew near, and said, My lord, if he had bid thee do
+some great thing wouldst thou not have done it? Why not then do as he
+says, and wash and be clean?
+
+And Na-a-man gave heed to their words and went down to the Jor-dan. And
+he took sev-en baths, and then his flesh grew as soft and pink as the
+flesh of a child, and health and strength came back to him. And Na-a-man
+went back to E-li-sha's house, he and all his men, and he said, Now I
+know there is no God in all the earth but the God of Is-ra-el.
+
+Now the time drew near when E-li-sha was to die. And the king, Jo-ash,
+came to see him as he lay sick in bed.
+
+And E-li-sha said, Take the bow and the darts. And the king took them.
+And E-li-sha said, Put thy hands on the bow. And the king did so, and
+E-li-sha put his hands on the king's hands. Then E-li-sha said, Throw
+wide the east win-dow. And when this was done he said shoot. And the
+king shot; and E-li-sha told him that he should set Is-ra-el free from
+its foes.
+
+Then he said to the king, Take the darts. And he took them. And
+E-li-sha said, Strike them on the ground. And the king struck them on
+the ground three times, and no more.
+
+[Illustration: THE AR-ROW OF DE-LIV-ER-ANCE.]
+
+And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldst have
+struck five or six times, for then thou wouldst have laid the Sy-ri-ans
+low, now thou shalt smite them but three times.
+
+And E-li-sha died, and was laid in the ground. And one day as some of
+the folks went out with a dead man to lay him in the grave that was dug
+for him, they saw a band of thieves from the land of Mo-ab and did not
+dare to go on. So they put the dead man in the grave where E-li-sha
+lay. And as soon as the corpse touched the bones of E-li-sha the man
+came to life and stood on his feet.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII.
+
+JONAH, THE MAN WHO TRIED TO HIDE FROM GOD.
+
+
+THERE was a seer in Is-ra-el whose name was Jo-nah. And the Lord told
+Jo-nah to go to Nin-e-veh, a large town where there was great need of
+good men. But Jo-nah did not care to go there, so he ran down to Jop-pa
+and found a ship there that would set sail for Tar-shish in a few days.
+So he paid his fare, and went on board the ship to go to Tar-shish,
+where he seemed to think the Lord would not find him.
+
+But as soon as the ship was well on its way, the Lord sent forth a great
+wind, and the waves rose high, and the storm beat the ship, and it was
+blown here and there as if it were a toy. And those on board of her were
+in great fear, and cried out to their gods, and threw all the goods that
+were in the ship in-to the sea, so that she would not sink.
+
+Jo-nah was down in the hold, where he lay and slept, though the storm
+was so fierce.
+
+And the one who had charge of the ship came to him and said, What does
+this mean? Rise, and call on thy God to save us from ship-wreck.
+
+And the rest of the men said, Come, and let us cast lots that we may
+know who is to blame for this.
+
+[Illustration: JO-NAH IN THE STORM.]
+
+So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jo-nah. And they said to him,
+Tell us, we pray thee, who has brought on us these ills. What is thy
+trade? where dost thou come from? where dost thou live? and of what
+tribe art thou?
+
+And he said I am a Jew, and have fled from the Lord who made the sea and
+sky.
+
+And the men were in great fear and said, Why hast thou done this thing?
+And what shall we do to thee that the sea may be still for us? For the
+waves were rough, and the winds blew a gale.
+
+And Jo-nah said to the men, Take me up and cast me in-to the sea; then
+shall the sea be calm for you, for I know it is for my sake that this
+great storm has come up-on you.
+
+The men did not want to drown Jo-nah, so they tried their best to bring
+the ship to land, but could not.
+
+Then they cried to the Lord, O Lord, we pray thee, count it no sin to us
+that we take this man's life, for thou, O Lord, hast sent this storm on
+us for some of his sins.
+
+So they took up Jo-nah, and cast him in-to the sea, and the sea grew
+still and calm.
+
+And when the men saw this they were in great fear, and brought gifts to
+the Lord, and made vows that they would serve him.
+
+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 sea.
+
+And Jo-nah was in-side the fish for three days and three nights. And he
+prayed to the Lord while he was in the fish; and cried to God to help
+him, and to blot out his sins. And God heard him, and bade the fish
+throw him up on the dry land.
+
+Then the Lord spoke to Jo-nah once more, and said, Rise, and go to
+Nin-e-veh, and preach to it as I bid thee.
+
+And Jo-nah rose and went.
+
+And when God saw them turn from their sins and pray to him, he did not
+do to Nin-e-veh as he said he would.
+
+But this did not please Jo-nah. He thought that Nin-e-veh should be
+brought low, for those who dwelt there were not good friends to the
+Jews. Then, too, Jo-nah's pride was hurt, for he knew that men would
+laugh at him, and have no faith in what he said, so he went out of the
+town and sat down by the road-side.
+
+And God made a vine to grow up there in one night, that Jo-nah might sit
+in its shade and find rest from his grief. And Jo-nah was glad when he
+saw the gourd. The next morn God sent a worm to gnaw the root of the
+vine, and it soon dried up.
+
+When the sun rose God sent a hot wind, and the sun beat on Jo-nah's head
+so that he grew sick and fell in a faint. And he was wroth, and had no
+wish to live.
+
+And God said to Jo-nah, Is it well for thee to be in such grief for the
+loss of a gourd?
+
+And Jo-nah said, Yes. There was good cause why he should feel as he did
+and long to die.
+
+Then the Lord said to him, Thou wouldst have had me spare this vine
+which cost thee nought, and which grew up in a night and died in a
+night. 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 left?
+
+So God put Jo-nah to shame, 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 him.
+
+And Jo-nah found out, what we all need to learn, that it is of no use to
+try to hide from God.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX.
+
+DANIEL.
+
+
+THERE was a king of Bab-y-lon whose name was Neb-u-chad-nez-zar. And he
+sent one of his chief men to choose some of the young Jews who had been
+well brought up, that they might wait on him.
+
+The chief chose four youths whose name were Dan-i-el, Sha-drach,
+Me-shach and A-bed-ne-go. And these were brought to Bab-y-lon, that they
+might be taught as the king wished.
+
+And the Lord was with these four young men, and made them wise, and
+strong in mind, and fair of face.
+
+[Illustration: KING NEB-U-CHAD-NEZ-ZAR.]
+
+When they had been taught for three years they were brought to the
+king's house. And the king kept them near him, and made use of them, for
+he found that they knew ten times more than all the wise men in the
+whole realm.
+
+One night the king had a dream that woke him out of his sleep. And he
+sent for all the wise men--those who could read stars, and those who
+could work charms--to tell what the dream meant.
+
+And they all came, but none of them could tell the dream that had gone
+out of the king's own head. And no king, they said, would ask such a
+thing of wise men.
+
+The king was wroth at this and gave word that all the wise men should be
+put to death. And they sought Dan-i-el and his friends, that they might
+kill them.
+
+Dan-i-el said, Why is there such haste? 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 him.
+
+In the night God showed the king's dream to Dan-i-el, and all that it
+meant was made clear to him. And Dan-i-el gave praise and thanks to God
+who had been so good to him.
+
+Then he went to the chief, and told him not to slay the wise men, but to
+bring him in to the king.
+
+Then Dan-i-el told the king his dream, and all that would come to pass,
+and when the king heard it he fell on his face be-fore Dan-i-el and said
+to him, It is true that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings,
+and that nought is hid from him, since thou hast told me this dream.
+
+And the king made Dan-i-el a great man, and gave him rich gifts, and put
+him at the head of all the wise men in the land.
+
+Now king Neb-u-chad-nez-zar made a great god out of gold, and set it on
+one of the plains of Bab-y-lon.
+
+[Illustration: NEB-U-CHAD-NEZ-ZAR'S DREAM.]
+
+And one of the king's men cried out with a loud voice, and said it was
+the king's law that all should bow down to the god of gold that he had
+set up. And those who did not bow down were to be thrown in-to a great
+hot fire and burnt up.
+
+And some men brought word to the king that the three Jews would not
+serve his gods, or bow down to this one of gold which he had set up.
+
+These three men were brought to the king, and he said to them, Is it
+true, O Sha-drach, Me-shach, and A-bed-ne-go that ye will not serve my
+gods or bow down to the one of gold which I have set up? And he said he
+would give them one more chance, and if they did not bow down when they
+heard the call, they should be cast in the same hour in-to the flames.
+The three Jews said to the king, Be it known to thee now that we will
+not serve thy gods, nor bow down to the new one thou hast set up. And if
+we are cast in the fire, the God whom we serve will save us from death
+and bring us out of thy hands, O king.
+
+Then was the king in a great rage, and he sent word that a fierce fire
+should be made. And the three Jews were bound and thrown in-to the
+flames with all their clothes on. And the fire was so hot and they went
+so near that sparks flew out and killed the men who took up Sha-drach,
+Me-shach and A-bed-ne-go.
+
+These three Jews fell down in the midst of the flames, but soon rose to
+their feet, and the Lord would not let the flames burn them.
+
+When the king saw this he rose in great haste and said to his chiefs,
+Did we not cast three men bound in the midst of the fire?
+
+And they said, True, O king.
+
+And the king said, Lo, I see four men loose, and they walk through the
+flames and are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like to the son
+of God.
+
+Then the king came to the door of the cage of fire and said to
+Sha-drach, Me-shach and A-bed-ne-go, Ye who serve the most high God,
+come forth, and come here.
+
+[Illustration: DWELL-ING WITH THE BEASTS.]
+
+And the three young Jews came forth out of the midst of the fire, and
+not a hair of their head was singed, nor were their clothes harmed, nor
+was the smell of fire on them.
+
+And the king praised the God who had shown that he would save from death
+those who put their trust in him. And the king made it a law that those
+who spoke ill of the God of Sha-drach, Me-shach, and A-bed-ne-go should
+be put to death, and their homes torn down, for there was no God who
+could save as he could.
+
+For a while the king served God and gave him praise for all he had done
+for him. But men who thought to please the king, spoke of his great
+wealth and praised all that he did, so that he grew vain and proud, and
+thought more of him-self than he did of God.
+
+And the king had a dream that made him shake with fear, and he sent for
+Dan-i-el. And Dan-i-el feared to tell the king the truth. But the king
+told him to speak out. Then Dan-i-el told him what would take place.
+
+And it all came on king Neb-u-chad-nez-zar. In the same hour his mind
+left him and he was not fit to reign. So he was thrust out of doors, and
+did eat grass with the beasts of the fields. And he lay on the ground,
+and was wet with the dews, and his hair grew so long that his flesh
+could not be seen, and his nails were like bird's claws.
+
+And at the end of the sev-en years Neb-u-chad-nez-zar raised his eyes to
+God, and his mind came back to him, and he spoke in praise of the most
+High.
+
+And Neb-u-chad-nez-zar was made king once more, and grew strong and
+great, and gave the praise to God; the King of kings, who could raise up
+those who were down, and bring down those who were full of pride.
+
+When Neb-u-chad-nez-zar died, a new king was on the throne of
+Bab-y-lon whose name was Bel-shaz-zar. And Bel-shaz-zar made a great
+feast, and much wine was drunk. And the king sent for the rich cups
+which his fath-er had brought from the Lord's house in Je-ru-sa-lem. And
+he and all at the feast drank from these cups, which was a great sin.
+
+In the midst of the feast there came forth a man's hand, that wrote on
+the wall of the king's house.
+
+And the king saw the hand, and was in great fear, and sent at once for
+all his wise men.
+
+[Illustration: THE WRIT-ING ON THE WALL.]
+
+But none of them could read what was on the wall, and the king knew not
+what to do. Then Dan-i-el was sent for, and the king said he should have
+great wealth and high rank if he could read the words on the wall.
+
+Dan-i-el said, Keep thy gifts, O king, and give thy fees to some one
+else. Yet will I read the words on the wall and tell you what they mean.
+For the God who gives thee life and takes care of thee, thou hast no
+word of praise. And so God sent this hand to write on the wall.
+
+    ME-NE, ME-NE, TE-KEL, U-PHAR-SIN,
+
+which means that thy reign as king is at an end.
+
+When Dan-i-el had told what the hand wrote on the wall, and what the
+words meant, Bel-shaz-zar bade his men clothe him in red, and put a gold
+chain on his neck, and make it known that he was to be third in rank
+from the king.
+
+[Illustration: DAN-I-EL IN THE LIONS' DEN.]
+
+That same night Bel-shaz-zar was slain, and Da-ri-us took his place on
+the throne.
+
+Now Da-ri-us was pleased with Dan-i-el, and thought him such a wise and
+good man that he made him chief of a large force of men who held high
+rank. And this made these men hate Dan-i-el, and they tried to find out
+some ill that he had done that they might tell it to the king. But they
+could find no fault in him. Then they thought of a way in which they
+could harm him.
+
+They came to the king and asked him to make a law that if one should ask
+help of God or man for one month, he should be cast in-to a den of
+li-ons.
+
+They might ask help of the king, but of no one else.
+
+And the king told them to write down this law, and he put his name to
+it.
+
+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-lem,
+and gave thanks to God first as he had done all his life.
+
+And the men who were on the watch to catch him in some crime, drew near
+his house and heard him pray to his God. So they went and told the
+king, and the king was wroth to think he had made such a law. And he
+tried his best to save Dan-i-el. But the men held him to his word, and
+said it would not do for him to change a law that had been made.
+
+Then the king bade them bring Dan-i-el and cast him in the den of wild
+beasts. And he said to Dan-i-el, Thy God, whom thou dost serve so well,
+will be sure to save thee.
+
+And a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den.
+
+[Illustration: ROCK GRAVE OF DA-RI-US.]
+
+Then the king went to his own house, but would take no food, nor did he
+sleep all that night. And at dawn he rose and went in haste to the den
+of wild beasts. And as he drew near he cried out with a sad voice, O
+Dan-i-el, canst thy God save thee from the li-ons?
+
+And Dan-i-el said, O king, my God hath shut the li-ons' mouths so that
+they have not hurt me, since I had done no wrong in his sight nor in
+thine, O king.
+
+Then the king was glad, and bade his men take Dan-i-el out of the den.
+And when he was brought out, there was not a scratch found on him, for
+his trust was in God, and God took care of him.
+
+Then the king had those men who found fault with Dan-i-el, thrown in-to
+the den--they and their wives, and their chil-dren--and the wild beasts
+were quick to eat them up.
+
+[Illustration: CY-RUS, KING OF PER-SI-A.]
+
+Then Da-ri-us made a law that all men should serve the God of Dan-i-el,
+who was the one true God.
+
+When Da-ri-us died, Cy-rus was made king.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XX.
+
+THE GOOD QUEEN ESTHER.
+
+
+FAR back in the past, wise men had fore-told that the Jews would be kept
+out of Je-ru-sa-lem for three-score and ten years, and at the end of
+that time a king, Cy-rus, would let them go back to the land they came
+from. And he did so.
+
+Not all the Jews went back to their own land, but some of them made
+their homes in Per-si-a and else-where. And King A-has-u-e-rus was on
+the throne.
+
+In the third year of his reign he made a great feast.
+
+And he sent for Vash-ti, the queen, to throw off her veil and let his
+guests see how fair she was.
+
+But Vash-ti would not do it.
+
+Then the king was in a rage, and said to his wise men, What shall we do
+to Queen Vash-ti to make her know that the king's will is her law?
+
+And the wise men said, Vash-ti hath done wrong to the king and to all
+the lords of the land.
+
+For when this is told, wives will not do as their liege lords wish. They
+will say, The king sent word for Vash-ti, the queen, to be brought to
+him, but she came not. Let the king make a law and put Vash-ti from him
+and choose a new queen, that all wives, great and small, may take heed
+and do as they are told.
+
+The king and all the lords thought these were wise words. And the king
+made it a law that a man should rule in his own house.
+
+Then some of the king's men, whose place it was to wait on him, 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 house, that he might choose one of them to be
+queen, in the place of Vash-ti.
+
+And the king did as they said.
+
+Now there was a Jew in the king's house, whose name was Mor-de-ca-i. He
+was a poor man, and was there to wait on the king.
+
+And there was a maid named Es-ther, who was one of his kins-folk. And
+she was "fair of face, and full of grace."
+
+And when the word went forth from the king, scores and scores of fair
+young maids came to the king's house, and Es-ther came with them. And
+one of the king's men had them all in his charge.
+
+This man was so pleased with Es-ther that he was more kind to her than
+he was to the rest, and sent maids to wait on her, and put her and her
+maids in the best part of the house where the wo-men were. But Es-ther
+had not let it be known that her folks were Jews, for Mor-de-ca-i had
+told her not to tell it.
+
+[Illustration: ES-THER AND THE KING.]
+
+As soon as the king saw Es-ther he fell in love with her, and set the
+crown on her head, and made her queen in the place of Vash-ti.
+
+Then the king made a great feast, and gave gifts to the poor for the new
+queen's sake. And she had not yet made it known that her folks were
+Jews.
+
+Now two of the king's men, who stood on guard at the doors of his house,
+were wroth with the king and sought to kill him.
+
+And their plot was known to Mor-de-ca-i, who was a watch-man at the
+king's gate. And he told it to Es-ther, and she told it to the king, and
+both of the men were hung. And what Mor-de-ca-i had done to save the
+king's life was put down in a book.
+
+And in this same book was set down all that took place in the king's
+reign.
+
+Now there was in the king's house a man whose name was Ha-man. And the
+king gave him a high place, and bade those of low rank bow down to
+Ha-man.
+
+But the Jew at the gate would not bow when Ha-man went in and out. And
+the rest of the men who stood by told Ha-man of it.
+
+Now Ha-man was a vain man, and when he saw that Mor-de-ca-i did not bow
+to him as the rest did he was full of wrath. It had been made known to
+him that Mor-de-ca-i was a Jew.
+
+And so he told the king if he would make a law that all the Jews should
+be put to death, he would give him a large sum of gold and sil-ver.
+
+The king heard what Ha-man said, and then took his ring from his hand
+and gave it to Ha-man, and told him to do with the Jews as he thought
+best. The king gave him his ring that he might use it as a seal. And
+Ha-man set the scribes to work, and they wrote just what he told them,
+in the king's name. And when the wax was put at the end with the king's
+seal on it, it was the same as if the whole had been writ by the king's
+own hand.
+
+Men were sent out in haste to make the law known through-out the land,
+that all the Jews in Per-si-a were to be slain. And when this was done
+Ha-man and the king sat down to drink wine.
+
+When Mor-de-ca-i heard of the law that Ha-man had made, he rent his
+clothes and put on sack-cloth, and went out and cried with a loud cry.
+And he came and stood in front of the king's gate, though he could not
+pass through, for it was the law that none should pass who wore
+sack-cloth. And all through the land the Jews were in deep grief, so
+full of tears that they could eat no food; and not a few of them put on
+sack-cloth to show the depth of their woe.
+
+Queen Es-ther had not heard of the law, but her maids came and told her
+of the state Mor-de-ca-i was in. And her grief was great, and she sent
+food and clothes to him, and bade the men take the sack-cloth from him.
+But Mor-de-ca-i would take nought from their hands, nor change his
+clothes.
+
+Then the queen sent one of her head men, Ha-tach, to ask Mor-de-ca-i
+what was the cause of his grief, and why he had put on sack-cloth.
+
+And Mor-de-ca-i told Ha-tach of the law that had been made, 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 land.
+
+And he told Ha-tach to tell the queen, and to show her what the scribes
+wrote, and bid her see the king and ask him to save the Jews.
+
+And Ha-tach took the word to the queen.
+
+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 for, would be put to
+death. But if the king held out his gold wand it was a sign that he
+would spare their lives. The king has not sent for me for a month, said
+she. How then can I go to him?
+
+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 death. And it might be that
+God had put her in the place she held that she might keep the Jews at
+this time.
+
+Then Es-ther sent word to him that he and all the Jews in the king's
+court should fast and pray for her, and not eat or drink for three days
+and three nights.
+
+I and my maids will do the same, said the queen, and I will go in to the
+king in spite of the law; and if I die, I die in a good cause.
+
+So on the third day af-ter the queen put on her rich robes, and went in
+and stood ve-ry near to the throne on which the king sat.
+
+[Illustration: ES-THER AT SHUS-HAN.]
+
+And when the king saw her, God put it in-to his heart to be kind, and he
+held out to her the gold wand that was in his hand. And the queen drew
+near, and touched the tip of the wand.
+
+Then the king said, What wilt thou, Queen Es-ther? and what wouldst thou
+ask of me? Were it half of my realm I would give it to thee.
+
+The queen said, If it please the king, I would like him and Ha-man to
+come this day to a feast I have made for them.
+
+And the king bade Ha-man make haste, and they both went to the feast.
+And while they drank the wine the king told the queen to make known her
+wish.
+
+But she put him off and said she would tell him the next day, if he and
+Ha-man would come to the feast that she would spread for them.
+
+And Ha-man's heart was full of pride, since the queen chose him and no
+one else to feast with her and the king. And when he went out he felt
+that all men ought to bow down to him. But Mor-de-ca-i would not. And
+Ha-man told all his friends how kind the king and queen were to him, and
+what high rank he held, and said that his life would be full of joy if
+it were not for the Jew at the king's gate.
+
+Ha-man's wife told him to fix a rope to a tall tree, and speak to the
+king the next day and have him hang the Jew. And Ha-man made a
+slip-noose at the end of a rope, and had the rope made fast to a tall
+tree.
+
+Now that night the king could not sleep. And he sent for the book in
+which was put down all that took place in the realm, and had it read to
+him. And when he who read came to the part which told what Mor-de-ca-i
+had done to save the king's life, the king said, How has Mor-de-ca-i
+been paid for this deed?
+
+And the man said he had had nought, and still kept watch at the king's
+gate.
+
+Then the king heard a step and sent one of his men to see who it was.
+
+Now Ha-man had come to the king's house to ask him to hang Mor-de-ca-i.
+And the man came back and said that Ha-man stood in the court. And the
+king said, Let him come in.
+
+So Ha-man came in. And the king said to him, What shall be done to the
+man who has won the praise of the king?
+
+And Ha-man thought, That means me, of course, and no one else.
+
+And he said to the king, Let the robes be brought that the king wears,
+and the horse he rides, and the crown which is set on his head. And let
+the robes and the crown be put on the man whom the king has in mind, and
+bring him on horse-back through the street of the town, and have men
+cry out, Thus shall it be done to the man who has won the praise of the
+king.
+
+And the king said to Ha-man, Make haste and take the robes and the horse
+as thou hast said, and do thus and no less to the Jew at the king's
+gate.
+
+But Ha-man went home, and was full of shame. And he told his wife and
+his friends of his hard fate. And while they yet spake the king's men
+came for him to go to the queen's feast. And while they ate and drank,
+the king bade the queen make known her wish. Ask what thou wilt; were it
+half my realm, I would give it to thee.
+
+Then the queen said, If it please thee, O king, take my life and spare
+the lives of all the Jews. For we have been sold and the truth has not
+been told of us, and we are to be put to death. The king said, Who is
+he, and where is he who has dared to do this thing?
+
+And the queen told him it was Ha-man. And Ha-man was in great fear as he
+stood face to face with the king and queen.
+
+The king rose in great wrath and went out of doors, and when he came in
+he saw Ha-man at the feet of the queen, where he went to beg her to save
+his life.
+
+And when the king was shown the rope and the tree on which Ha-man meant
+to hang Mor-de-ca-i he said, Hang _him_ on it. And they hung Ha-man, and
+the king's wrath left him.
+
+And on the same day the king gave Ha-man's house to Es-ther, and
+Mor-de-ca-i was brought in to the king, who had been told that he was a
+kins-man of the queen. And the king gave him the ring which Ha-man had
+worn, and the queen put him at the head of the house in which Ha-man had
+dwelt.
+
+But Es-ther was still sad at heart be-cause of the law that had been
+made, that all the Jews in the land should be put to death. And she went
+in once more to the king--though he had not sent for her--and fell down
+at his feet in tears. Then the king held out the wand of gold, and the
+queen rose, and stood be-fore the king and asked him to change the law
+and save the lives of the Jews.
+
+The king could not change the law, 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 seal.
+So they made a law that the Jews should kill all those who came to do
+them harm. And when Mor-de-ca-i came out from his talk with the king he
+had on a robe of blue and white, such as the king wore, and a gold crown
+on his head.
+
+And all the Jews were glad; and when the day came that Ha-man had set
+for the Jews to be slain, the Jews went out and fought for their lives
+and put their foes to rout. And grief gave place to joy, and a feast was
+held for two days. This feast was called the Feast of Pu-rim, which the
+Jews keep to this day.
+
+The Jews who had gone to Je-ru-sa-lem to build up its walls were still
+at work there. But there were foes to watch, and the poor Jews found
+fault with the rich ones, and there was strife in their midst from year
+to year. But when Ne-he-mi-ah went to their aid the Lord gave him
+strength to set things straight, and in a year the new wall was built
+and the gate put up. Then there was a great feast, and all the Jews gave
+praise and thanks to God.
+
+But they went back to their sins, and did not serve God as they ought.
+And kings fought for Je-ru-sa-lem and took it from their hands and made
+the Jews their slaves.
+
+And at last the Ro-mans came and took Je-ru-sa-lem and broke down its
+walls, and made the Jews serve them. And He-rod, who had led the Ro-mans
+to war, was made their king. He was a fierce, bad man, who would let no
+one rule but him-self. He put his own wife and two of his sons to death,
+and did all that he could to make folks hate and fear him.
+
+He tried to make the Jews think that he was one of their race, but he
+was not. He thought it would please them if he built up their House of
+God, so he set men to work to tear down the old and to put up the new,
+and they made use of much gold and sil-ver and fine white stones.
+
+There was no ark to put in it, for that had been lost, but a large stone
+was put in the place where the ark should have been.
+
+And it took He-rod more than nine years to build this House of God on
+the top of Mount Mo-ri-ah. And the way up to it was by a long flight of
+steps.
+
+This ends the Old Tes-ta-ment, which was made up of all the books that
+were kept by all the scribes from the time the world was made.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The New Testament
+
+[Illustration: CHRIST IN THE TEM-PLE.]
+
+[Illustration: THE BABE OF BETH-LE-HEM.]
+
+
+
+
+History of the New Testament.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.
+
+
+THE time was near for Je-sus to come on the earth. God had told Ad-am
+and Eve of one who would save them from their sins. Mo-ses, and all the
+seers and wise men, spoke of him who was to give men new hearts, and
+help them to lead new lives.
+
+In the days of He-rod, king of Ju-dah, there was a priest named
+Zach-a-ri-as. His wife's name was E-liz-a-beth. They were both old, and
+had led pure lives, and sought to keep God's laws. But they had no
+child.
+
+One day when the priest was in the house of God by one of the al-tars,
+an an-gel came and stood near him. And when the priest saw him he shook
+with fear.
+
+But the an-gel said: Fear not, Zach-a-ri-as, for God will give thee and
+thy wife a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
+
+He shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall not drink wine nor
+strong drink, and shall turn the hearts of men to the Lord their God.
+
+Then Zach-a-ri-as said to the an-gel, But how shall I know that these
+things will be?
+
+And the an-gel said to him, I am the an-gel Ga-bri-el, who stands near
+to God, and he has sent me to tell thee this good news. And for thy lack
+of faith thou shalt be dumb, and speak not a word till the day that
+these things come to pass.
+
+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-cense.
+
+And when he came out he could not speak to them, but made them know by
+signs that he had seen a strange sight.
+
+Six months from this time God sent the an-gel Ga-bri-el to the town of
+Naz-a-reth, to a young wo-man there whose name was Ma-ry. She was one of
+the heirs of King Da-vid.
+
+When Ma-ry saw the an-gel she was in great fear, for she knew not why he
+had come. And the an-gel said: Fear not, Ma-ry, for God has blessed
+thee. Thou shalt have a son, and shalt call his name JE-SUS. He shall be
+great, and shall be called the Son of God. And God will make him a king,
+and to his reign there shall be no end.
+
+Ma-ry said: How can this be?
+
+[Illustration: THE AN-NUN-CIA-TION.]
+
+The an-gel told her that what might seem hard for her was not hard for
+God, who could do all things. He had told E-liz-a-beth that she should
+have a son, and he had now sent word to Ma-ry that she should have a
+son; and what he had said he would do.
+
+Then Ma-ry said, Let the Lord's will be done. And the an-gel left her.
+
+Ma-ry made haste and went to the land of Ju-dah, and to the house of
+E-liz-a-beth and Zach-a-ri-as, where she spent three months. Then she
+came back to her own home. Jo-seph was the name of Ma-ry's hus-band; and
+he was a Jew, of King Da-vid's line. They were both poor, and Jo-seph
+had to work hard at his trade. He was a car-pen-ter.
+
+God gave Zach-a-ri-as and E-liz-a-beth the son that he said they should
+have. And when the child was eight days old, the friends and kins-folk
+came to see it and to give it a name. Most of them said, Call him
+Zach-a-ri-as.
+
+But the child's mo-ther said, Not so. He shall be called John.
+
+And they said, There is none of thy kin-dred that is called by this
+name.
+
+And they made signs to the fa-ther that he should let them know by what
+name the child should be called.
+
+And the fa-ther sat down and wrote: His name is John. And they all
+thought this strange, as he had not told them of the an-gel who spoke
+to him in the house of God.
+
+As soon as Zach-a-ri-as wrote these words his speech came back to him,
+and he gave praise and thanks to God. And all the folks in that part of
+the land heard of these things, and they said, What sort of a child
+shall this be? And the boy grew tall and strong, and the Lord blest him,
+and he went out and dwelt in the woods and waste lands till he was a
+man, and it was time for him to preach to the Jews and to tell them of
+Je-sus.
+
+Now the king of Rome was called a Ce-sar, in the speech of that land,
+and the Jews had to do just as he said, for they were his slaves. And he
+made a law that the names of all the Jews should be put down in a book,
+that it might be known what tribe they came from, and what they were
+worth. Then, too, 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 won.
+
+And each Jew was to go to that part of the land where his fore-fa-thers
+dwelt, and have his name put down in the book at that place.
+
+So, as Jo-seph and his wife were of the house of Da-vid, they both set
+out for the town of Beth-le-hem, where Da-vid used to feed his sheep.
+The way was long, and when they came to the town they found a great
+crowd of folks there. There was no room for Jo-seph and Ma-ry at the
+inn, and they knew no one at whose house they could stay.
+
+As they went from place to place in search of a room, they came to a
+shed in which was a great trough or man-ger full of hay, where the poor
+folks who came to town fed the beasts on which they rode.
+
+So Jo-seph and Ma-ry made their home in this shed while they had to wait
+to have their names put down. And while they were there God gave to
+Ma-ry the son that he said she should have.
+
+And as she had no fine soft clothes to wrap the babe in, she took bands
+of cloth and put round him, and laid him on the straw in the man-ger.
+
+In those days rich men kept large flocks of sheep and goats, and had men
+watch them at night for fear that wild beasts would seize and kill them.
+The men who fed and took care of the sheep were called shep-herds.
+
+One night, as some shep-herds were on the hills where they kept watch of
+their flocks, the an-gel of the Lord came down to them. And a bright
+light shone round them so that they were in great fear.
+
+[Illustration: THE NA-TIV-I-TY.]
+
+And the an-gel said to them, Fear not, for I bring you good news which
+shall give joy to all the land. For Christ, the Lord, is born for you
+this day, in the town of Beth-le-hem, and he will save you from your
+sins. And this is the way ye shall know him: Ye shall find the babe
+wrapped in bands of cloth and laid in a man-ger.
+
+When the an-gel had said this, there came, like a flash of light, a
+great host of an-gels who gave praise to God, and sang, Glo-ry be to God
+on high, and on earth, peace and good-will to men.
+
+When the an-gels had left them the shep-herds said, Let us go at once to
+Beth-le-hem and see these things of which the an-gel has told us.
+
+And they came with haste, and found Ma-ry and Jo-seph, and the babe that
+lay in the man-ger where the ox and ass used to feed. And when they had
+seen the child, they went out and told what the an-gel had said to them.
+And those who heard were filled with awe, for it was the first time that
+such a thing had been done in the world. And the strange news spread
+fast.
+
+Ma-ry told no one of the talk she had had with the an-gel, but thought
+much of these things, and took the best of care of the new-born babe. It
+did not seem as if it could be her own child.
+
+When the babe was eight days old, its fa-ther and mo-ther gave it the
+name of JE-SUS, as the an-gel had bid them. And they gave him to the
+Lord; that is, they vowed to the priest that they would bring up the
+child to serve God and to lead a good life. For though he was the son
+of God he was sent on earth to teach men what they ought to do.
+
+Now there was a man in Je-ru-sa-lem whose name was Sim-e-on. He was a
+good man, and did what was right, and for years he had been on the watch
+for one of whom the seers had told, and who was to save men from their
+sins.
+
+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 lords.
+
+[Illustration: SIM-E-ON IN THE TEM-PLE.]
+
+Sim-e-on was a priest in the house of God, and when Jo-seph and Ma-ry
+brought in the child Je-sus, he took it up in his arms and blest God,
+and said: Now, Lord, thy words have come true, and I can die in peace,
+for I have seen him who is to be the light of the world, and to save men
+from their sins!
+
+Jo-seph and Ma-ry knew not what to make of this strange speech. And the
+priest blest them, and gave the child back to his mo-ther, and told her
+of some of the great things he would do when he grew up to be a man.
+
+And there was one An-na, who kept all the fasts, and served God night
+and day. She was four-score and four years old, and could fore-tell what
+was to take place, and her fame was great. And she came in-to the house
+of God while Sim-e-on yet spoke, and gave thanks to the Lord, and told
+of him who was to come to save the Jews, and to give them back their
+rights.
+
+Then Ma-ry and Jo-seph went back to their own home in Naz-a-reth. And
+the child grew, and was strong, and wise, and God blest him from day to
+day.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+THE STAR IN THE EAST.
+
+
+IN these days God spoke to men by strange signs, and wise ones were all
+the time on the watch for them. They had read in their old books of a
+star that was to shine with a bright light, and each night they would
+raise their eyes to the sky, in hopes that they might see this sign that
+would bring hope and joy to the whole race of Jews. But years and years
+had gone by, and the Jews had no land of their own, and were as slaves
+to the Ce-sar of Rome. And He-rod, their king, was most harsh to them,
+for he had skill in the use of a sword, but not in the use of kind
+words, or good deeds.
+
+[Illustration: THE GUID-ING STAR.]
+
+One night as a wise man lay on the roof of his house, with his gaze
+fixed on the great broad sky, he gave a start and cry of joy, for there
+shone a new star of such size that all the rest of the stars grew dim
+and small. And it was as if the sun had burst through a dark cloud, and
+brought the dawn some hours too soon, for the whole East was full of
+light from the long rays of this new star.
+
+And the star seemed to move, and its rays to point all one way. And the
+wise men who saw it knew that the light had come for which they had
+looked and prayed so long, and they set out at once with the star to
+guide them, and they took rich gifts with them. Each night it shone in
+the sky, and led them on and on till they came to Je-ru-sa-lem. And they
+said to those they met there, Where is he that is born to be King of the
+Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and have come to kneel down
+at his feet.
+
+When He-rod heard of these things, and that they spoke of Je-sus as
+King, he was in great fear lest he should lose his throne. So he sent
+for his chief priests and scribes that they might tell him where Christ
+should be born. And they read from their old books that it had been
+fore-told that he should be born in Beth-le-hem.
+
+Then He-rod sent for the wise men, and told them to go to Beth-le-hem,
+and search for the young child. And when ye find him, said he, bring me
+back word that I too may fall down at his feet and give him praise.
+
+But this he did not mean to do, for his plan was to put the child to
+death just as soon as he could find out where it was.
+
+[Illustration: THE SHEP-HERDS OF BETH-LE-HEM.]
+
+When the king had ceased to speak, the wise men from the east left
+Je-ru-sa-lem, and went on their way to Beth-le-hem. And the star led
+them on and on, and was like the face of a friend. And a small, still
+voice seemed to say to them:--Come!--Come!--Come! And it drew them so
+that they would have gone to the ends of the earth. When troops are on
+the march, and through their ranks goes the cry of Halt! then each foot
+must stand still, and not a man moves from his place.
+
+And when the wise men came to Beth-le-hem, lo, the star that had led
+them stood still in the sky, right o'er the place where the young child
+was. And when they went in-to the house they saw the young child, with
+Ma-ry, his mo-ther, and they fell on their knees and bowed down to him
+as if he had been a king. And they brought him gifts of great worth, and
+gold and myrrh and rich gums and spice that can be found on-ly in those
+lands in the far East.
+
+And God spoke to them in a dream, and told them not to go back to
+He-rod, so they went home not by the same road they had come.
+
+When He-rod found that the wise men had not done as he bade them, he was
+in a great rage, and sent men to Beth-le-hem, and slew all the chil-dren
+there who were two years old or less, for then he was sure that Je-sus
+would be slain.
+
+[Illustration: THE WISE MEN BRING-ING PRES-ENTS TO JE-SUS.]
+
+But ere He-rod's men came, God spoke to Jo-seph in a dream, and said,
+Rise, and take thy wife and thy son, and flee in-to E-gypt, and stay
+there till I bring thee word; for He-rod will seek the young child to
+kill him.
+
+So Jo-seph did as the Lord told him, and took his wife and child out of
+Beth-le-hem by night, and went to dwell in the Land of E-gypt.
+
+[Illustration: THE FLIGHT IN-TO E-GYPT.]
+
+But when He-rod was dead, God spoke to Jo-seph in a dream, and told him
+to take his wife and son and go back to the land of Is-ra-el, for the
+man was dead who sought to kill the young child. And Jo-seph did as the
+an-gel told him, and he and his wife and child came and dwelt in
+Naz-a-reth.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+THE BOYHOOD OF JESUS.
+
+
+IT was in the first month of the year that God brought the Jews out of
+E-gypt and led them through the Red Sea.
+
+And he made it a law that in the first month of each year they should
+all meet at one place, 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 taught. And this they were to do all the days of their life. And
+this feast, which was to last not quite two months, was known as the
+Feast of the Weeks. There were days they were to fast, and days they
+were to feast, and they were to call to mind that they were once slaves,
+and that God had set them free, and with glad hearts praise and bless
+his great name.
+
+The place where the Jews now met was at Je-ru-sa-lem, and Je-sus was
+twelve years old when he went up for the first time, with Jo-seph and
+Ma-ry, to keep the Feast of the Weeks.
+
+There was a great crowd there, and friends to meet and talk with, and it
+must have been a hard task to keep track of the young folks, who found
+so much to see and to hear that was new and strange.
+
+When the days of the feast were at an end, Jo-seph and Ma-ry set out for
+their home in Naz-a-reth.
+
+They had gone out with a band of friends and folks from the same town,
+and were to come back in the same way. It was not safe for them to go by
+them-selves, 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 way.
+
+[Illustration: NAZ-A-RETH.]
+
+Some rode on mules, some on horse-back, and some had to walk all the
+way. Je-sus was not with Jo-seph and Ma-ry, but they thought he must be
+with some of the friends or kins-folk. But when at the end of a day's
+ride he came not near them, they sought for him in the groups of friends
+and kins-folk, where there were lads of his own age.
+
+[Illustration: JE-SUS WITH THE DOC-TORS IN THE TEM-PLE.]
+
+And when they found him not, they went back to Je-ru-sa-lem, and sought
+for him with hearts full of grief, for they knew not what harm might
+have come to him.
+
+For three days they went from house to house, and through the lanes and
+streets, but could see no signs of the boy they had lost.
+
+At the end of that time they went in-to the house of God, it may have
+been to pray that their child might be found, and there a strange sight
+met their gaze.
+
+Je-sus sat in the midst of the wise men, whose place it was to teach and
+to preach to those who came up to the feasts, and the old men bent their
+heads to hear what the young lad had to say. For it was the first time
+they had met with one so young in years who was so wise in speech, and
+they felt in their hearts that he must have been taught of God.
+
+When Jo-seph and Ma-ry saw Je-sus they were struck dumb, and could do
+naught but stare, as if it was a scene in a dream. Then Ma-ry said, My
+son, why didst thou vex us thus? we have sought for thee with sad
+hearts.
+
+Je-sus said, Why did ye look for me? Do ye not know that I must do the
+work that my fa-ther has set me to do?
+
+Jo-seph and Ma-ry did not know what he meant by these words, or that God
+had sent Je-sus on earth to teach men how to read the word of God
+a-right, and how to save their souls from death.
+
+Je-sus went back to Naz-a-reth with Jo-seph and Ma-ry, and was a good
+son to them. And he grew wise and tall, and was blest of God, and won
+the hearts of all who were near him, for they saw in him much to love.
+
+It was not known that he was the Son of God, and he made friends by his
+own sweet ways, for he was a poor boy.
+
+Naught was heard or known of Je-sus for some years, and we are led to
+think that he was taught how to use the axe, and saw, and plane, and to
+work at the same trade his fa-ther did. This gave him a chance to see
+how folks lived, and to use his eyes and ears as he went from house to
+house, so that when he went forth to teach he could tell them of their
+sins, and show them how vile they were.
+
+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
+us, and to do our work there in the best way we know how.
+
+Je-sus was at school then, just as boys and girls in these days go to
+school, and strive to grow wise and to fit them-selves for the work they
+are to do in the world. And though he was to be a king he did not put on
+airs, or sit and fold his hands and bid those that were near wait on him
+and be at his beck and call. No! he was born and brought up with poor
+folks, to teach us that Je-sus is more at home with the poor than he is
+with the rich; and to be Christ-like we must seek to please God, to do
+his will, to put down pride, and keep sin out of our hearts.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST.
+
+
+YOU have been told that John went out in-to the woods and waste lands
+when quite a young man. He fed on lo-custs and wild hon-ey, and his
+clothes were made of the skin of the cam-el, with the long rough hair on
+the out-side.
+
+The time had now come for him to go out in the world to tell of Je-sus,
+and to bid men give up their sins and walk in the right path.
+
+And he went to a place near the Jor-dan and crowds came there to hear
+him. And he told them that he had been sent to warn them to flee from
+the wrath to come. 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 faith. He told them that each one was to be like a tree, and to
+stand in his place and bring forth fruit, and serve God in the best way
+that he could. And each tree, said John, which brings not forth good
+fruit is cut down and cast in-to the fire. He told them they must be
+good and kind to each oth-er, and must give food and clothes to those
+who were in need of such things. They must not tell lies, nor steal, nor
+be vain and proud, but they must show by the way they lived that they
+loved God and were glad to do his will.
+
+[Illustration: JOHN THE BAP-TIST.]
+
+And when those who heard him felt a great hate for sin, and a strong
+wish to lead good lives, and to be saved from the wrath of God, they
+spoke to John and he led them down to the Jor-dan and they were
+bap-tiz-ed in the stream.
+
+Now wa-ter will wash the stains from our clothes, and cleanse our skin,
+but it will not wash our sins away. To do this we must have Christ in
+our hearts. Some of those who heard John talk thought that he might be
+the Christ who was to come, and of whom the proph-ets had fore-told
+since the days of Mos-es. Some were quite sure of it; but oth-ers shook
+their heads, for they had made up their minds that he who was to come
+and rule o-ver them would be dressed like a king, and not in such plain
+clothes as John wore.
+
+John heard their words, or guessed their thoughts, and he said to these
+Jews, I in-deed bap-tize you with wa-ter, but he who is to come af-fer
+me, and who is great-er than I, will bap-tize you with fire.
+
+That meant that Je-sus would be in their hearts like a fire, to burn up
+all that was bad, as they burnt the chaff that was blown loose from the
+wheat.
+
+Then Je-sus came from his home in Naz-a-reth to have John bap-tize him
+in Jor-dan's stream. But John would not. He said there was more need
+that Je-sus should bap-tize him. He felt that there was need to have his
+own sins washed a-way, but Je-sus had no sins. So why dost thou come to
+me? said John.
+
+Je-sus had come on the earth as a man to do God's will, and to teach
+man-kind how to walk in the right path and keep their hearts free from
+sin. And he told John, that all these things would be made plain to him
+some day, and it was right that he should bap-tize him.
+
+So John went with Je-sus in-to the wa-ter, and he bap-tized Je-sus in
+the wa-ter. And Je-sus was pray-ing to his Fa-ther in heav-en.
+
+And as Je-sus went up out of the wa-ter, lo, there came a great light in
+the sky, that took the form of a dove, and it came down and seemed to
+rest on him. And God's voice spoke out of the sky, and said: This is my
+dear Son, with whom I am well pleased.
+
+Then Je-sus went out in-to the waste lands, and was there with no one
+near him for more than a month. In all that time he ate no food, but
+spent the hours in talks with God. At last he felt weak and faint, and
+left the waste lands to go in search of some-thing to eat.
+
+Now there is a fiend in this world, as we all know, who has a black
+heart, and can take on all sorts of shapes. He came to Eve in the form
+of a snake, and to Sam-son with a fair face. He tempts those to do wrong
+who have set out to do right, and we have to be on our guard all the
+time, and to watch and pray that we may be kept safe from him.
+
+When this fiend saw Je-sus on his way to give new hearts to men, and to
+make them good and pure, he thought he would try and put a stop to such
+work. So he went out to tempt Je-sus, with the same smooth voice in
+which he spoke to Eve.
+
+And he came to him and said, If thou be the Son of God change those
+stones in-to bread, so that thou canst eat now that thou hast need of
+food.
+
+Je-sus knew why Sa-tan had come, and he told him that men should take
+more pains to do God's will than to get bread to eat. Next Sa-tan took
+Je-sus to Je-ru-sa-lem, and up to a high place where the house of God
+was built. And he said to him, If thou be the Son of God, throw thy-self
+down; for it is said, he shall give his an-gels charge to keep thee in
+all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash
+a-gainst a stone.
+
+[Illustration: THE TEMPT-A-TION.]
+
+Je-sus told him that it was not right to go where it was not safe, just
+to try if God would keep us from harm.
+
+Then Sa-tan took Je-sus up on a high mount, from whence could be seen
+all the large towns in the land, and all their great wealth. And he said
+to him, All these will I give thee for thine own if thou wilt kneel down
+and wor-ship me.
+
+Je-sus said to him, Go from me, Sa-tan, for it is set down in God's
+book, Thou shalt wor-ship the Lord thy God, and him a-lone shalt thou
+serve.
+
+When Sa-tan found that Je-sus paid no heed to his words, he left him,
+and an-gels came to wait on the Son of God.
+
+In a short time Je-sus went back to the Jor-dan where John was, and when
+John saw him, he said, Be-hold the Lamb of God!
+
+He spoke of Je-sus as the Lamb of God, for he was to be laid on the
+cross for the sins of men, as the lamb was in those days laid on the
+al-tar.
+
+Then Je-sus set out to preach and to turn men from their sins. And he
+went to Gal-i-lee. And one day as he walked by the sea-shore he saw two
+men cast their net in-to the sea. Their names were An-drew and Pe-ter.
+Je-sus said to them, Come with me. And they left their nets at once,
+that they might be near him and learn of him.
+
+The next day he saw two men whose names were James and John in a boat
+with their fa-ther. Their nets had broke, and they were in haste to mend
+them so that they could take in a large haul of fish. But Je-sus spoke
+to James and John, and they left the boat at once, and went with him
+that he might teach them.
+
+The next day Je-sus spoke to Phil-ip and Na-than-i-el, and they left
+their homes and went with him.
+
+[Illustration: THE MAR-RIAGE IN CA-NA.]
+
+When Je-sus came to the town of Ca-na he found quite a crowd there, for
+a wed-ding was to take place, and he and his mo-ther had been bid to the
+feast. There was food to eat and wine to drink, but ere the feast was
+at an end the wine was all gone. And when Ma-ry knew of it she said to
+Je-sus, They have no wine. And she bade those who were there to serve
+the guests to do just as Je-sus told them.
+
+Now there were in the house six large stone jars such as the Jews kept
+to hold wa-ter. Je-sus said to the men, Fill the jars with wa-ter. And
+they filled them to the brim. And he said to them, Take some out now and
+bear it to the chief guest of the feast. And they did so; and the wa-ter
+was changed in-to wine.
+
+The chief guest did not know what Je-sus had done; but when he had drunk
+some of the wine he sent for the bride-groom and said to him, As a rule,
+those who give a feast set out the good wine first, and when the guests
+have had all they care for they bring out that which is worse. But thou
+hast kept the good wine till now.
+
+This was the first great sign Je-sus gave of the pow-er he had from on
+high. And it was proof to those whose hearts were with him that he was
+the true Son of God.
+
+The time of the Feast of Weeks was at hand, and Je-sus went up to
+Je-ru-sa-lem to keep it. 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 feast. When Je-sus came to the place where these men
+were, the sight did not please him. And Je-sus made a scourge, or whip
+of small cords, and drove them all out, with their flocks and their
+herds. And he poured their gold and sil-ver on the ground, and said to
+those who sold doves, Take them a-way; make not the house of God a place
+to buy and sell in.
+
+[Illustration: DRIV-ING THE SELL-ERS FROM THE TEM-PLE.]
+
+And while he was at the feast crowds were drawn to him, and had faith in
+him when they saw what won-ders he could do. Nic-o-de-mus, one of the
+chief men of the Jews, came to Je-sus in the night, and said to him, We
+know that God has sent thee to teach us what is right, for no man could
+do these won-ders if God were not with him.
+
+Je-sus told him that he must have a new heart or he could not be a child
+of God.
+
+He-rod, who slew the babes of Beth-le-hem, was dead, but his son He-rod
+ruled in that part of Gal-i-lee, and he was a bad man. He took his
+broth-er's wife from him and made her his own wife. Her name was
+He-ro-di-as. When John the Bap-tist told He-rod this was not right, he
+would have put him to death if he had dared. But he had heard him
+preach, and knew that he was a good man. Yet to please He-ro-di-as
+He-rod had seized John, and bound him, and shut him up in jail.
+
+While John was in jail, He-rod, on his birth-day, made a great feast for
+the lords and chief men of Gal-i-lee. And a young girl, whose name was
+Sa-lo-me, came and danced in their midst. He-rod was so much pleased
+with her that he said, Ask of me what thou wilt, and thou shalt have it,
+though it were half of my realm.
+
+And Sa-lo-me went to He-ro-di-as--who was her mo-ther--and said, What
+shall I ask?
+
+And He-ro-di-as said to her, Ask the king to cut off the head of John
+the Bap-tist, and bring it to thee here in a large dish.
+
+Sa-lo-me came back in haste to the king, and said, Give me, in a large
+dish, the head of John the Bap-tist.
+
+He-rod was grieved, but as he had sworn to give her what she asked for,
+and those who sat near had heard him, he felt bound to keep his word. So
+he sent one of his train-band, who cut off John's head in the jail, and
+brought it in a large dish to Sa-lo-me, and she gave it to her mo-ther.
+
+When the friends of John heard of it they came up and took his dead form
+and laid it in a tomb, and went and told Je-sus.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+THE WOMAN AT THE WELL--JESUS BY THE SEA.
+
+
+ONE day Je-sus and his friends came to the town of Sy-char, near which
+was a well to which all the folks came to draw wa-ter. It was known as
+Ja-cob's Well. The sun was hot, and Je-sus, tired with his long walk,
+sat down by this well to rest, while his friends went to the town to buy
+food.
+
+A wo-man came from the town to draw wa-ter. She led a life of sin, and
+had no love for God in her heart. And Je-sus knew this, for he sees all
+our hearts, and knows all our thoughts, and all that we have done.
+
+And he spoke to the wo-man, and told her of the things she had done that
+did not please God. And she thought he was a seer, to whom God told
+things that were not known to most folks. And she said to Je-sus, I know
+that Christ is to come in-to the world, and when he comes he will tell
+us all things. Je-sus said to her, I that speak to thee am he.
+
+[Illustration: THE WO-MAN AT THE WELL.]
+
+Then the wo-man left her jar, and made haste back to the town, and said
+to her friends there, Come and see a man who told me all the things that
+ever I did. Is not this the Christ?
+
+And they went out and saw Je-sus, and bade him come in-to the town. And
+he went with them, and was there for three days. And they gave ear to
+the things he taught them. And they said to the wo-man, Now we have
+faith in him, not be-cause of the things thou didst tell us, but
+be-cause we have heard him our-selves, and know that he is the Christ
+whom God has sent down to us.
+
+From there he went once more to the town of Ca-na. And a rich man came
+from the town where he dwelt to ask Je-sus to come and heal his son, who
+was sick. And the rich man said to him, Come as quick as you can, lest
+my child should die.
+
+Je-sus said to him, Go thy way, thy son is made well.
+
+The rich man knew that Je-sus would not say what was not true, and with
+a glad heart went back to his home. And as he drew near the house his
+slaves ran out to meet him, and said to him, Thy son is well.
+
+The rich man bade them tell him what time the change took place, and
+they told the hour that the fe-ver left the lad. And it was the same
+hour that Je-sus had said to the rich man, Thy son is well. And he and
+all those in his house felt in their hearts that Je-sus was the son of
+God.
+
+The Jews did not yet know how to print, and they had no books such as
+we have. They wrote with pen and ink on rolls of parch-ment, made from
+the skin of sheep and goats.
+
+These rolls were kept in the house of God, in a box or chest called an
+ark, and were brought out and read to those who came to the church on
+the Lord's day. The chief rolls, all the books of the Old Tes-ta-ment,
+were kept at Je-ru-sa-lem, but as all the Jews could not get there more
+than once a year, they had made rolls for their own use in each house of
+God.
+
+[Illustration: CYL-IN-DER HOLD-ING THE PENT-A-TEUCH.]
+
+Je-sus came to Naz-a-reth where he had been brought up, and went in-to
+the church on the Lord's day and stood up to read. And he read from one
+of the old books where it was fore-told that one should come to bring
+good news to the poor, to cheer the sad, to give sight to the blind, and
+to heal the sick. Then he closed the roll and sat down. And the eyes of
+all in the church were on him. He said to them that all these words had
+come true, and that he was the Son of God, of whom the proph-et wrote.
+And they said, Is not this Jo-seph's son? How then can he claim to be
+the Son of God? And they were wroth with him, and led him out to a steep
+hill on which their town was built, that they might cast him down and
+kill him. But Je-sus got a-way from them, and they could do him no harm.
+
+[Illustration: TWO PA-GES of THE SAM-AR-I-TAN PENT-A-TEUCH.]
+
+
+He went on to Ca-per-na-um, and great crowds came there to hear him,
+and pushed so that there was scarce room for him to stand on the
+sea-shore. And he saw two boats close at hand, out of which the men had
+gone to mend their nets. And he went in one of the boats, which was
+Pe-ter's and told him to push it out from the land. And he sat down, and
+taught the crowd out of the boat.
+
+When he left off, he said to Pe-ter and An-drew, Sail out where the sea
+is deep, and let down your nets to catch fish.
+
+Pe-ter said, Mas-ter, we have been hard at work all the night, and not a
+fish have we caught; but, since thou dost bid me, I will let down the
+net.
+
+When they had done this, they caught such a large haul of fish that the
+net broke. Then they called to their friends in the boat by the shore,
+and bade them come to their aid. And they came, and there was more fish
+than the two boats could hold.
+
+When Pe-ter saw this he fell down at the feet of Je-sus, and said, I
+fear thee, for I am full of sin, O Lord. And those with him were
+spell-bound at sight of the fish they had caught.
+
+Je-sus did this great won-der so that these men might see it and know
+that he was the Son of God; for they were to aid him in his work, and to
+go with him from place to place.
+
+Je-sus said to Pe-ter, Fear not; from this time forth thou shalt catch
+men and not fish. He meant by this that Pe-ter was to preach, and to
+save men from sin, and from the nets that Sa-tan spreads. And he said to
+them all, Come with me. And they left their boats and their nets, and
+all that they had, and were with Je-sus till the end of his life on
+earth.
+
+[Illustration: THE WON-DER-FUL DRAUGHT OF FISH-ES.]
+
+On the Day of Rest, Je-sus went in-to the church and taught the folks
+there. And in their midst was a man who was not in his right mind, and
+it was as if he were torn by fiends, and he cried out to Je-sus, Let us
+a-lone. What have we to do with thee, thou Je-sus of Naz-a-reth? Art
+thou come to kill us? I know thee, that thou art the Son of God. Je-sus
+said to the fiends that were in the man, Be still, and come out of him.
+Then the fiends threw the man down, and cried with a loud voice, and
+came out of him. And all those in the church were struck with awe, and
+they said a-mong them-selves, What does this mean? for he speaks to the
+fiends so that they are forced to do his will!
+
+When they came out of the church Je-sus went to the house where Pe-ter
+and An-drew dwelt. And James and John were there. And Pe-ter's wife's
+mo-ther was sick of a fe-ver, and they told Je-sus of it and begged that
+he would heal her.
+
+Je-sus took her by the hand, and bade the fe-ver come out of her. And
+she was made well at once, and rose from her bed, and took charge of her
+house.
+
+At the close of the day, when the sun had set, great crowds came to the
+house where Je-sus was, and brought those who were sick, and those who
+were not in their right minds, that he might cure them. And he made the
+sick well, and drove out the fiends, and would not let them speak.
+
+The next day Je-sus rose ere it was light and went out to a lone place
+to pray to God.
+
+[Illustration: PE-TER'S WIFE'S MO-THER.]
+
+For though he was the Son of God, he had come to the earth in the form
+of a man, and had all the wants that man has. He had need of food and
+drink, and felt pain and grief just as we do. He had need of man's help
+in his work; and had need of God's help all the time. And he knelt to
+God, just as he wants us to do, and asked God to be near him and to give
+him more strength, and to help him to do his will.
+
+When Je-sus had gone, crowds came up to the house to seek him. And
+Pe-ter, and the three that were with him, went out to look for Je-sus.
+And when they found him they told him of the great crowd that sought
+him.
+
+Je-sus said, Let us go to the next towns, that I may tell the good news
+there; for I was not sent to stay in one place.
+
+And he taught all through Gal-i-lee, and his fame spread, and great
+crowds went to hear him.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+JESUS HEALS THE SICK, AND DOES GOOD WORKS ON THE DAY OF REST.
+
+
+A man came to Je-sus and knelt down at his feet and said, Lord, if thou
+wilt thou canst make me clean. This man was a lep-er. He had white sores
+on his skin, and had to live by him-self or with those as bad off as
+him-self, and there was no cure for him but death. It was not safe to
+breathe the air near a lep-er, and so he was sent at once out of the
+town, as soon as his case was known.
+
+This lep-er must have heard of Je-sus and the great works he had done,
+and the hope that had died out must have sprung up in his heart once
+more. If he could heal the sick, and make the lame walk, why could he
+not cure him, so that he would be fit to live with those he loved? At
+least he could ask; and oh! how great must have been his faith when he
+fell down at the feet of Je-sus and cried out, Lord, if _thou_ wilt
+_thou_ canst make me clean.
+
+[Illustration: CUR-ING THE MAN LAME WITH PAL-SY.]
+
+Je-sus put out his hand and touched the man, and said, I will: be thou
+clean.
+
+And at once the sores left the man and his skin was white and smooth.
+Then Je-sus sent him off, and bade him tell no man who had made him
+well, but to go to the priest and do as Mo-ses bid all those do who had
+been lep-ers and were cured.
+
+But the man was so full of joy that he could not keep it to him-self,
+and he went out and told what Je-sus had done for him.
+
+Now there were some Jews who were known as Scribes and Phar-i-sees. They
+made out that no one else was quite as good as they were. They knew all
+the laws of Mo-ses by heart, and they were strict to see that no Jews
+broke those laws. A Scribe is one who writes.
+
+These Scribes and Phar-i-sees were thought to be wise and good men, for
+they would fast and pray for a long while at a time, and look as though
+they thought them-selves too pure for earth.
+
+But their hearts were bad and full of sin, and when Je-sus told them
+they must give up their sins and lead the right kind of lives, they were
+wroth with him, and tried to make all the rest of the Jews hate him as
+much as they did.
+
+Je-sus went down to Ca-per-na-um, and when it was known that he was in
+the town great crowds came to the house where he was to hear him preach.
+
+Now there was a man who had been in bed for a long time, and could not
+move hand or foot. He had heard of the fame of Je-sus, and it was the
+wish of his heart to get near him that he might heal him with a touch.
+But Je-sus was a long way off, and the poor sick man could not walk one
+step. But he had kind friends, and they thought of a plan by which he
+could be brought near to Je-sus, that he might at least hear him preach.
+
+So they took him on his bed and bore him to the town; but when they came
+to the house where Je-sus was, the crowd was so great that there was no
+chance to get near him. What were they to do?
+
+Now the house was low and had a flat roof, with a wall round it, so that
+those who dwelt there could walk or sleep on it and have no fear that
+they would fall off. All the rooms down stairs led out in-to a court,
+which had a roof that could be slid off when it did not rain, or there
+was need of fresh air.
+
+So the friends of the lame man drew the bed up on the house-top with him
+in it, and brought him to the space in the roof, through which they
+could see Je-sus and the crowds round him. And they let the man down on
+his bed in the midst of the crowd, which had to make way for him.
+
+When Je-sus saw what great faith they had, he spoke to the sick man, and
+said, Thy sins are for-giv-en thee. Some of the Scribes and Phar-i-sees
+who sat near said, but not out loud, Who is this that dares speak in
+this way? None but God can for-give sins.
+
+Je-sus knew their thoughts, and he said to them, Why think ye these
+things? Which could be said with the most ease, Thy sins be for-giv-en
+thee, or Rise up and walk?
+
+But to show you that I have pow-er to for-give sins, I will make him
+well.
+
+So he said to the sick man, Rise, take up thy bed, and go to thy house.
+
+And the man rose and stood on his feet, and took up the bed on which he
+had lain and went out and gave praise and thanks to God.
+
+And those who saw him were in a maze and said, We have seen strange
+things to-day.
+
+Now the Jews, as you know, were slaves of the Ce-sar of Rome, and to
+keep their peace with him they had to pay a tax. And the men to whom
+they paid the tax were known as pub-li-cans. Some of them were harsh and
+stern, and the Jews could not but hate them. But all were not so. And as
+Je-sus went by he saw one of these pub-li-cans with his gold and sil-ver
+close at hand. His name was Matth-ew. Je-sus spoke to him, and said,
+Come with me.
+
+And Matth-ew left all, and went with Je-sus, and from that time did all
+that he could to spread the good news, and to serve the Lord Christ.
+
+Af-ter this there was a feast of the Jews, and Je-sus went up to
+Je-ru-sa-lem. Now there was at Je-ru-sa-lem a pool, which was known as
+the Pool of Be-thes-da. And there were five courts, or door-ways, that
+led down to the pool. And in these courts lay a great crowd of folks who
+were sick, or blind, or lame.
+
+For this was the time of the year when an an-gel came to stir the pool.
+And it was thought that the one who went in-to the pool the first, when
+the an-gel had made it fresh and sweet, would be cured of all the ails
+that he might have.
+
+[Illustration: THE POOL OF BE-THES-DA.]
+
+And a man was there who had been sick for most two-score years. Je-sus
+saw him, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, and it made him
+sad to think of it. So he said to the man, Wilt thou be made well?
+
+The man said, I have no one to help me in-to the pool, for when I try to
+get down to it, some one steps in a-head of me and I am too late.
+
+Je-sus said to him, Rise, take up thy bed and walk.
+
+And at once the man was made well, and took up his bed, and walked.
+
+Now it was the Day of Rest. And the Jews, who were quick to find fault
+with those who broke the laws, said to the man when he came their way,
+It is not right for thee to move thy bed on this day.
+
+He said to them, he that made me well told me to take up my bed and
+walk.
+
+They said to him, Who was it told thee that?
+
+And the man did not know, and could not point Je-sus out to them, the
+crowd was so great.
+
+But ere the feast was at an end Je-sus met the man He had cured and said
+to him, Now thou art well, sin no more lest a worse thing come to thee.
+
+Then the man went out and told the Jews that it was Je-sus who had cured
+him on the Day of Rest. And for this the Jews sought to kill Je-sus. But
+he told them that the works he did were proof that God had sent him, and
+that he was the one of whom the seers had told in the days that were
+past, and of whom Mo-ses wrote.
+
+He said that the time was near at hand when the dead should hear the
+voice of the Son of God, and those who were in their graves should come
+forth. Then he would judge them. Those who had done good would be blest,
+for God would give them a home with him in the sky; but those who had
+done ill, and died in their sins, would not meet the smile of God, nor
+have a place near his throne.
+
+Je-sus said if the love of God was in their hearts they would trust him
+whom God had sent, and feel that he had come to do them good, and to
+save their souls from death.
+
+[Illustration: IN THE CORN-FIELDS.]
+
+Je-sus and his five friends, An-drew, Pe-ter, James, John, and
+Matth-ew, went out on the next Day of Rest, and their walk led them
+through a field of corn. And as the men had need of food, Je-sus told
+them to pluck and eat the ears of corn. And they did so.
+
+In the East they gave the name of corn to all kinds of grain.
+
+When the Phar-i-sees saw it they found fault, and Je-sus told them that
+he was the best judge of what was right to do on that day; for he was
+Lord of the Day of Rest.
+
+[Illustration: THE WITH-ER-ED HAND.]
+
+In the course of a few weeks he went in-to a church and taught on the
+Lord's day. And a man was there whose hand was so drawn up that he could
+not stretch it out or do aught with it. And the Phar-i-sees kept a
+close watch on Je-sus to see if he would heal the man on that day, so
+that they might find fault with them.
+
+Je-sus knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the lame hand,
+Rise up, and stand where all can see you. And the man rose, and stood
+forth.
+
+[Illustration: JER-U-SA-LEM.]
+
+Je-sus said to them, I will ask you one thing: Is it right to do good or
+to do ill on the Day of Rest? to take life or to save it? And he stood
+and looked at all those that were in the place. Then he said to the man,
+Stretch out thy hand. And he did so, and it was well and strong.
+
+This made the Phar-i-sees hate Je-sus, so that they went out of the
+church and sought for some way to put him to death. When he knew of it
+he left the place, and came down to the sea of Gal-i-lee. And crowds
+came to him from the land of Ju-dah and from large towns that were far
+off, to see the great works that he did. And the sick crept near so that
+they could touch him, and he made them all well.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
+
+
+JE-SUS left the crowd, and went to a lone place to pray to God. And he
+spent the night there. The next morn he chose twelve men, that he might
+send them out to preach, and to heal those that were sick, and to cast
+out dev-ils. Their names were Pe-ter, An-drew, James and John, the sons
+of Zeb-e-dee, Phil-ip, Bar-thol-o-mew, Thom-as and Matth-ew, James and
+Leb-be-us, Si-mon and Ju-das Is-ca-ri-ot.
+
+[Illustration: THE SER-MON ON THE MOUNT.]
+
+And the crowd was so great that Je-sus went up on a hill, and the twelve
+went with him and he taught them there. He told them that those who were
+in a high state of joy, with not a care to vex them, were called
+blest. And he said, not in these words, but in words that meant the
+same:
+
+Blest are the poor in spirit, for God is with them.
+
+By poor in spirit he meant those who did not think too much of
+them-selves, who were not vain nor proud, but rich in love to God. And
+he would be with them, and bless them all their lives.
+
+Blest are those that mourn, for their tears shall be dried.
+
+To mourn is to weep, and to grieve. Je-sus meant that those who wept for
+their sins should shed no more tears, for Christ had come to save them,
+and the good news should make them glad.
+
+Blest are the meek, for the whole earth shall be theirs.
+
+Je-sus meant by this that those who were fond of peace, and did not love
+strife, might dwell where they chose, and would be blest in this world
+and the world to come.
+
+Blest are those who hun-ger and thirst for that which is good, for they
+shall be filled.
+
+This meant that those who sought to do right and to grow in grace had
+but to pray to God, and he would give them all the strength they might
+need from day to day.
+
+Blest are those who are kind and good, for the Lord will be kind to them
+in their hour of need.
+
+Blest are those who are pure in heart, for they shall see God.
+
+Those who are pure in heart will be fond of good works, and will lead
+good lives, and God will not turn his face from them.
+
+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 God.
+
+Blest are those who are ill-used for my sake, for the more the world
+hates them the more will God love them.
+
+Je-sus told them that when men said hard things of them for his sake,
+and called them vile, and were harsh with them and full of spite, they
+were not to grieve but to be glad. 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 Christ.
+
+Salt is good, and gives a taste to our food.
+
+Je-sus told them they were to salt the earth. 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 salt.
+
+He told them, too, that they must let their light shine; he meant that
+they should let it be seen and known that they loved God, and tried to
+do his will. They were not to hide it from men, but to do such good
+works, in Christ's name, that those who did not love or care for him
+might be drawn to Je-sus--the light of the world.
+
+Je-sus said that if we do as we ought to do our-selves, and teach men to
+keep all God's laws, we shall be called great in the place where God
+dwells. But if, like the Scribes and Phar-i-sees, we teach what is right
+and do what is wrong, we shall not see God's face, or live with him on
+high.
+
+He said, you have been taught not to kill; and that he who puts one to
+death will be brought to the judge, and made to suf-fer for the crime.
+But I say to you that it is a sin to hate those who have done you no
+harm, and God will pun-ish you for it.
+
+Then he said that when they went to church to wor-ship God they must try
+and think if they had done wrong, had been harsh, or had said what was
+not true. And they were to go at once and do right to those whom they
+hurt in this way, for God did not care to have them bow down to him if
+their hearts were full of sins they were not sor-ry for.
+
+We must be good and pure, Je-sus says, in all that we say and do: we
+must do no harm to those who harm us, but must be kind and good to them,
+and pray for them, and love them.
+
+Bless those that curse you, and do good to those that hate you. This is
+a hard task, and none but those who have the love of Christ in their
+hearts can do it. But if we pray for strength, the strength is sure to
+come, and love takes the place of hate.
+
+Some folks when they do good deeds like to make a great show and noise,
+that they may be seen of men, and have much praise from them.
+
+Je-sus told the Twelve that they were to do right, not to please men but
+to please God. When they gave to the poor they were not to tell of it;
+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 door, that no one but God could hear them. Then God
+would give them what they asked for.
+
+Je-sus taught them how to pray, and what words to use; and these words
+each child ought to learn by heart and use at least twice a day:
+
+"Our Fa-ther which art in heav-en, Hal-low-ed be thy name. Thy King-dom
+come. Thy will be done on earth as _it is_ in heav-en. Give us this day
+our dai-ly bread. And for-give us our debts, as we for-give our
+debt-ors. And lead us not in-to tempt-a-tion, but del-iv-er us from
+e-vil: For thine is the King-dom, and the pow-er, and the glo-ry, for
+ever. _A-men._"
+
+When they should fast they were not to look sad as those did whose wish
+it was that men should see them fast, but they were to hold up their
+heads and wear a look of cheer that no one but God should know it. And
+God would bless them for it.
+
+Je-sus said we must not want to be rich or to lay up wealth in this
+world, for when we die we can-not take it with us. But we should give
+our hearts to thoughts of God, and try to live so that we can share his
+home, where we shall have more things to please us than all the gold in
+the world can buy.
+
+Je-sus said that no man could serve God and serve Sa-tan too. We serve
+God when we do right; and we serve Sa-tan when we do wrong.
+
+So we can-not do the will of both, and must choose which one we will
+serve.
+
+He told the Twelve not to judge folks; he meant that they must take care
+how they found fault, and blamed them. For they may not have done wrong,
+or if they did they may have meant no harm. We can-not see men's hearts,
+or know how they felt at the time they did the deed. But God knows all,
+and may not blame them as much as we do. Je-sus said that we should
+strive to do right our-selves, and then we should see with clear eyes
+who did wrong, and have a right to tell them of their faults.
+
+He said, that what we want men to do to us we must do to them. If we
+want them to be kind and good and to treat us well, we must do the same
+by them.
+
+He said, Strive to go in at the strait, or nar-row gate; for wide is the
+gate and broad is the way that leads to death. He meant that the good
+and the bad ways are like two gates in our path, for us to choose which
+one we will go through.
+
+The good way is small and hard to find, and we have to search for it
+with great care. But the path is one that leads to life and joy.
+
+[Illustration: THE UN-FRUIT-FUL TREE.]
+
+The bad way is like a broad gate that stands o-pen and in plain sight.
+This wide gate leads down to hell, and crowds and crowds go that way,
+while but few are found in the good way that leads to bliss.
+
+Je-sus said that at the last day some would call him Lord, Lord, and say
+they had served him and taught as he did. But he would say that he did
+not know them, for they had bad hearts, and had led lives of sin, and
+were not fit to dwell with the good and pure in the home on high, where
+all is love.
+
+He said that men were like trees. Good trees brought forth good fruit;
+but a bad tree could not bring forth good fruit. And men were to be
+known by their works, just as a tree was known by its fruits.
+
+Then he spoke of two men, each of whom built a house. One chose to build
+on a rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew
+and beat on that house, but it stood firm and the storm did it no harm.
+
+But one of the men built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and
+the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it fell
+with a great crash, and was swept out of sight.
+
+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 rock. Christ is our Rock. He
+stands firm. No storms can move him. If we cling to him he will save us.
+
+Je-sus said that those who heard his words and did not do as he taught
+them, were like the man who built his house on the sand. When the storm
+came on the last day, when God would judge the world, they would be
+swept out of sight. And oh! what a sad, sad day that will be for all
+those who have led bad lives, and done not the least thing to please
+God, who took care of them and gave them all they had.
+
+We must strive to be good all the time, and to love Je-sus, so that he
+will be near us, and will take us home to live with him when we die.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+GOOD WORDS AND GOOD WORKS.
+
+
+THERE was at Ca-per-na-um a chief who had charge of five score Ro-man
+troops. And one of his men, who was dear to him, was so sick that he was
+like to die. When the chief heard that Je-sus was there he sent some of
+his friends down to ask him to make the sick man well. Those who brought
+the word to Je-sus were Jews, and they spoke a good word for the chief,
+who had been kind to them.
+
+Then Je-sus went with them. 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-self, for he was not good e-nough. And now he sent word that he
+was not good e-nough for Je-sus to come in-to his house. But if Je-sus
+would speak the word, he was sure that the sick man would get well.
+
+For I stand at the head of my troops, said the chief, and say to this
+one, Go, and he goes; and to that one, Come, and he comes; and to a
+third, Do this, and he does it.
+
+And he knew that if he could do this Je-sus could do more, and bid all
+the ills leave the sick man at the sound of his voice.
+
+[Illustration: CHRIST AND THE CEN-TU-RI-ON.]
+
+When Je-sus heard these words he was a-mazed, and said to those who were
+with him, I have found no one who has such faith in me as this Ro-man.
+And I tell you that at the last day those who have had faith in me shall
+come from all lands, and have a place near God's throne; while the Jews,
+who will not put their trust in me, will be shut out.
+
+And when the friends of the chief went back they found the sick man made
+well.
+
+The next day Je-sus went to the town of Nain. And a great crowd went
+with him. And as they came near the gate of the town they saw a dead man
+brought out to be borne to his grave. He was all the son his mo-ther
+had, and her friends stood near her and wept with her.
+
+When Je-sus saw her grief his heart was sad, and he said, Weep not.
+
+[Illustration: THE WID-OW'S SON BROUGHT TO LIFE.]
+
+And he came up to the bier on which the dead lay, and those who bore it
+stood still. Then Je-sus said, Young man, I say to thee a-rise.
+
+And he that was dead sat up and spoke. And Je-sus gave him to his
+mo-ther. And a great fear came on all who saw it, and they gave praise
+to God, and said that a great proph-et had been raised up in their
+midst.
+
+In old times those who lived in the East did not wear shoes such as we
+do. They wore light soles, or san-dals, which were bound on their feet
+with straps, and thrown off as soon as they came in-to the house. Then
+wa-ter was brought for them to wash their feet.
+
+Much oil was used in those lands, and is to this day. It was put on the
+hair to keep it moist, and on the skin to make it soft and smooth. This
+oil, when some-what hard, was called oint-ment, and was kept in a box,
+and had a nice smell.
+
+Now a Phar-i-see, whose name was Si-mon, asked Je-sus to his house. And
+Je-sus went there, and they sat down to eat. And a wo-man of the town,
+who had led a life of sin, when she heard that Je-sus was there, came in
+with a box of oint-ment and bowed down at his feet.
+
+She was full of shame, for her sins had been great, and she had come to
+Je-sus to ask him to for-give her and help her to lead a new life.
+
+She wept, and washed the feet of Je-sus with her tears, and wiped them
+with the hairs of her head. And she kissed his feet, and rubbed them
+with the oint-ment she had brought, and which had cost her a high price.
+
+When the Phar-i-see saw it he said to him-self, If this man had come
+from God he would know what kind of a wo-man this is, and would send her
+out of his sight.
+
+Je-sus, who knew his every thought, said to him, Si-mon, I have
+some-thing to say to thee.
+
+[Illustration: WASH-ING HANDS IN THE EAST.]
+
+And he said, My lord, say on.
+
+Then Je-sus said, Two men were in debt to a rich man. One owed him a
+great deal, while the oth-er owed him but a small sum. But they were
+both so poor that they could not pay him, and he told them to think no
+more of the debt, for it would be the same as if they had paid all they
+owed. Tell me now which one of these would love him the most.
+
+The Phar-i-see said, I should think that he to whom he for-gave the
+most.
+
+Je-sus said to him, That is true.
+
+And he turned to the wo-man and said to Si-mon, See'st thou this wo-man?
+I came to thy house, and thou didst bring me no wa-ter to wash my feet,
+but she hath washed my feet with her tears and wiped them with the hairs
+of her head. Thou didst give me no kiss, but this wo-man, since the time
+I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst
+not an-oint, but she has poured her oint-ment on my feet. So I say to
+thee that her sins, though so great, will be all wiped out, for she has
+loved me much.
+
+And he said to the wo-man, Thy faith has saved thee; go back to thy home
+in peace.
+
+From this place Je-sus went on through all the large and small towns,
+and told the good news that God had sent his Son in-to the world to save
+men from their sins. And the twelve were with him.
+
+Je-sus might have been rich, for all the world was his; but he chose to
+be poor, and to bear all the ills of life for our sakes, that we might
+be drawn to him, and be saved from our sins. Good wo-men, whom he had
+cured, gave him such things as he had need of, and he did not lack for
+food or friends.
+
+Je-sus spoke at times in a strange way. He would take scenes from real
+life and paint them, as it were, with words, so that they were plain to
+all. These talks were meant to teach great truths that would lodge in
+the mind, and stand out like scenes of real life. They were to take them
+home with them, and keep them in their thoughts from day to day.
+
+One of these talks was of a rich man who had large fields and
+vine-yards. And when it was time for the crops to come in, the rich man
+found that his barns would not hold them.
+
+And he said, What shall I do? for I have no room where I can put my
+fruits. This will I do: I will pull down my small barns and build large
+ones, and there will I store all my goods. And I will say to my-self,
+Thou hast much goods laid up that will last thee for years and years;
+take thine ease, eat, drink, and be of good cheer.
+
+But God said to him, Thou fool, this night thou shalt die. Then who
+shall have those things which thou hast laid up for years to come?
+
+This was to teach us that it is of no use for men to lay up great wealth
+in this world, for they will have to leave it all when they die. And it
+is a sin for a rich man to spend all that he owns on him-self, to live
+at his ease, and to eat and drink, as if there were no poor in the
+world, and no God to serve.
+
+Je-sus told the twelve not to fret be-cause they were poor, or to have
+the least fear that they might want for food, or for clothes to wear.
+Think of the birds, he said. They do not sow seed in the fields, nor
+reap grain and lay it up for use in time of need. They have no
+store-house or barn, yet they have all the food they want, for God feeds
+them and takes care of them. And if he does so much for the birds, how
+much more will he do for you?
+
+Look at the flow-ers. See how they grow. They do not work, or spin the
+thread to weave in-to cloth as men must do, and yet I say to you that
+King Sol-o-mon did not wear such rich robes as theirs. If then God gives
+such fine clothes to that which grows in the field like grass, and which
+in a day or two is burnt up, how much more will he clothe you, though ye
+are so loth to trust him. So do not fret lest you shall want for things
+to eat, and to drink, and to wear; for God knows that ye have need of
+these things, and if ye seek first to do his will, he will give all
+these things to you.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+JESUS AT THE SEA-SHORE.
+
+
+WHILE Je-sus was down by the sea, the crowd grew so great that he went
+in-to a boat and sat down to teach them as they stood on the shore.
+
+[Illustration: THE SOW-ER.]
+
+He said, A man went out in the field to sow his seed. And as he threw
+the seed from his hand, some of it fell on the hard path by the
+road-side, and the birds flew down and ate it. Some fell on the rocks
+and stones where there was not much earth, and it soon grew up on top of
+the ground. But the sun's warm rays made it droop, and as it had no
+root, in a few days it was all dried up.
+
+Some of the seed fell where thorns and weeds were, and these took up all
+the room, so that there was no space for the seed to grow. The air and
+the sun could not get at it, and soon it was choked to death.
+
+But some of the seed fell in good ground, that the plough had made soft.
+The rain fell on it, the sun shone on it, and it sprang up and bore a
+large crop of grain.
+
+When the crowd had left Je-sus, the twelve came near to ask him what he
+had meant to teach by this talk of seeds that were sown here and there.
+
+Je-sus told them the seed was the good news that he came to preach.
+Those who preach, or teach, sow good or bad seed, which takes root in
+the mind or heart.
+
+Some who heard his words would not care for them, but would go on in
+their sins and feel no change of heart. New thoughts and fresh scenes
+would come and eat up the seed-thoughts that Je-sus had sown, as quick
+as the birds ate up the seed sown by the road-side.
+
+Some who heard him thought of his words for a-while, and tried for a
+short time to do right. But it did not last long. This was the seed that
+fell in the midst of stones, and sprang up at first, but in a few days
+was all dried up.
+
+Some would hear Je-sus preach, and were glad of the words that he spoke;
+but the cares of this world, their wealth, and the gay things of life,
+were so much in their thoughts that they could not do the things he had
+taught them.
+
+This was the seed that fell in the midst of thorns, and the thorns grew
+up and choked it.
+
+But there were some who heard Je-sus preach, and who tried each day to
+do as he taught them. This was the seed that fell in good ground, which
+took root and grew and brought forth ten times as much as had been sown.
+
+[Illustration: THE EN-E-MY SOW-ING TARES.]
+
+One of the talks of Je-sus was of a man who sowed good seed in his
+field. And while he slept a foe came and sowed tares, or weeds, in the
+midst of the wheat, and then went on his way. And when it was time for
+the wheat to grow up, the weeds grew up with it.
+
+And when the work-men on the farm saw this, they went at once to the
+man of the house, and said to him, Didst thou not sow good seed in thy
+field? Where then have these tares come from?
+
+He said to them, A foe has done this.
+
+The work-men said, Shall we go out, then, and pull them up by the roots?
+
+And he said, No, lest while you pull up the tares you pull up the wheat
+with them. Let both grow till it is time to reap the grain; and then I
+will say to the reap-ers, Pull up the tares first and bind them in
+stacks to burn. But put the wheat in my barn.
+
+Je-sus told the twelve what he meant by this talk of the tares of the
+field.
+
+The field is the world. He who owns the field and sows the seed, is
+Je-sus him-self. The wheat that grows up means those who hear his words,
+and do as he has taught them.
+
+The tares are bad men, who have no love for Je-sus.
+
+The foe that sows them is Sa-tan.
+
+The time to reap the grain is on the last great day. The reap-ers are
+the an-gels.
+
+Je-sus will let the good and the bad live in the world till the last
+great day. Then he will send his an-gels to take the good to their home
+on high, but the bad will be cast out in-to the fire that is to burn up
+the world.
+
+Then Je-sus spoke of a man who went out to buy pearls. He went from
+place to place, and those who had pearls to sell brought them out for
+him to look at, but he was hard to suit, and bought but few. At last he
+found one that was worth more than all the rest that he had seen. But
+its price was so great that he could not buy it. What did he do? Why, he
+went and sold all that he had, and came back and bought this pearl of
+great price.
+
+So will it be with those who wish to be rid of their sins, and to be as
+pure as a pearl with-in. Je-sus in us is the pearl of great price. Gold
+can-not buy it. But when we learn its cost we should make haste to get
+rid of all that keeps Christ out of our hearts, and make room for this
+one pearl, which is worth more than all else in the world.
+
+[Illustration: SEEK-ING GREAT PEARLS.]
+
+Then Je-sus spoke of those who took their net, and went out in a boat to
+catch fish. They cast the net out of the boat and threw it in-to the
+sea, and when it was full drew it back to shore. Then they sat down to
+sort the fish; the good ones were put in their boats, and the bad ones
+were thrown a-way.
+
+So it would be at the last day. The an-gels would come forth and sort
+the good from the bad. And the good would be borne to their home on
+high, but the bad would be thrown in-to a fire that would make them cry
+out with pain.
+
+Je-sus said, Have I made these things plain to thee? And they said, Yes,
+Lord.
+
+[Illustration: PAR-A-BLE OF THE NETS.]
+
+One of the Scribes came to Je-sus, and said, I will not leave thee; but
+where thou dost go I will go. Je-sus said to him, The fox-es have holes,
+and the birds of the air have nests, but I have not where to lay my
+head. He meant by this that he was poor, and had no place where he
+could go and lie down when he had need of rest.
+
+Night drew near, and the crowd was so great that Je-sus and the twelve
+went in a boat to cross the Sea of Gal-i-lee. And there came up a great
+storm, and the winds blew fierce, and the waves rose high and came with
+a great dash in-to the boat.
+
+And Je-sus slept, for he was quite worn out. The twelve were full of
+fear; and at last they woke Je-sus, and said, Lord, save us, or we shall
+sink.
+
+Then he rose and spoke to the winds and the waves, and said to them,
+Peace, be still. And the wind ceased to blow, and soon all was still and
+calm.
+
+[Illustration: STILL-ING THE TEM-PEST.]
+
+And Je-sus said to the twelve, Why are ye in such fear? How is it that
+ye have no faith?
+
+As Je-sus left the boat a mad-man came out of the tombs to meet him. He
+was so fierce that no man could bind him, or tame him. He broke loose
+from all the ropes and chains, and no house could hold him. So night and
+day he would roam on the hills and in the caves or tombs, where graves
+had been dug, and cry out and cut him-self with bits of stones.
+
+And while Je-sus was still far off, the mad-man saw him and ran and fell
+down at his feet. And he cried out, What have I to do with thee, Je-sus,
+thou Son of God? Harm me not, I pray thee.
+
+Now there was there, close by the hills, a great herd of swine. And the
+fiends that were in the man begged Je-sus to send them in-to the swine.
+And Je-sus said, Go. And when they came out of the man they went in the
+swine, and the herd ran down a steep place and were drowned in the sea.
+
+And they that fed the swine went and told what had been done, and great
+crowds came to the place where Je-sus was.
+
+And when they saw that the mad-man sat with his clothes on and in his
+right mind, they were in great fear. And they prayed Je-sus to leave the
+place at once.
+
+When Je-sus was come in-to the boat, he that had been out of his mind
+begged that he might go with him. But Je-sus would not let him, and said
+to him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them what great things the Lord
+hath done for thee.
+
+And the man went and told how he had been made well, and those who heard
+him felt that Je-sus must have been sent from God, for no mere man could
+do such strange things.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+JESUS BRINGS THE DEAD TO LIFE.--FEEDS FIVE THOUSAND.
+
+
+JE-SUS went back to Ca-per-na-um. And as he stood by the sea-shore, one
+of the chief men of the church came to him, whose name was Ja-i-rus.
+
+He was in deep grief, for he had but one child, a girl twelve years of
+age, and she lay sick at his home and there was no help for her. And he
+said to Je-sus, My child lies at the point of death. I pray thee come
+and lay thy hands on her that she may live.
+
+And Je-sus went with him, and so did the twelve, and all the crowd that
+had come up to hear Je-sus preach. And in the throng was a wo-man who
+had been sick for twelve years. She had spent all she had to try to be
+made well; but all the drugs she took did her no good, and no one could
+seem to help her case. So she went on from bad to worse.
+
+When she heard of Je-sus she came up with the crowd at his back, and put
+out her hand and touched the hem of his robe. For, she said, if I may
+touch but his clothes I shall be made well. And as soon as she had done
+this she felt that she was cured.
+
+All this was known to Je-sus, and yet he faced the crowd and said, Who
+touched me?
+
+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 it.
+
+Je-sus said, Someone touched me, and he looked round to see who had done
+it.
+
+When the wo-man saw that Je-sus knew all, and that she could not hide
+from him, she shook with fear, and fell down at his feet, and told him
+why she had touched him, and how that touch had made her well.
+
+Je-sus said to her, Be of good cheer. Thy faith in me hath made thee
+well.
+
+While he yet spoke to her, there came one from the house of Ja-i-rus,
+who said to him, Thy child is dead.
+
+When Je-sus heard it he said, Fear not. Trust in me and she shall be
+made well. And when he came to the house, he found a great crowd there,
+who wept and mourned the loss of the young child.
+
+Je-sus said to them, Why do you weep? She sleeps; she is not dead.
+
+He meant that she would soon rise from the dead, as one who wakes out of
+his sleep.
+
+But they saw that she was dead, and as they had no faith in his words
+they laughed him to scorn.
+
+Then he put them all out of the room save three of the twelve--Pe-ter,
+James, and John--and the fa-ther and mo-ther of the young girl. Then he
+took the child by the hand and said, I say to thee a-rise. And she rose
+from her bed, and had strength to walk, and Je-sus bade them bring her
+some food that she might eat.
+
+[Illustration: CUR-ED BY TOUCH-ING HIS GAR-MENT.]
+
+And her fa-ther and mo-ther knew not what to think of these strange
+things. Je-sus bade them tell no one of what he had done, and there was
+no need for them to speak. For there was their child, well and strong,
+once more the light and joy of their house, and their hearts must have
+been full of thanks and praise to God!
+
+[Illustration: THE DAU-GHTER OF JA-I-RUS.]
+
+When Je-sus went from the house of Ja-i-rus two blind men came near him
+and cried out, Thou Son of Da-vid have mer-cy on us. They said this
+be-cause they knew that he was of King Da-vid's race.
+
+Je-sus said to them, Do you think that I can make you well? They said to
+him, Yes, Lord.
+
+Then he touched their eyes, and at once their sight came back to them.
+And he said to them, Tell no man what I have done to you. But when they
+left him they went from place to place and told all whom they met how
+Je-sus had brought back their sight.
+
+And they brought to him a dumb man who could not speak be-cause of the
+fiend that was in him. And as soon as Je-sus cast out the fiend the man
+spoke. And all those who saw it were in a maze, and said, Such things as
+these have not been done be-fore in the land of Is-ra-el.
+
+[Illustration: THE TWO BLIND MEN.]
+
+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-tan, the prince of
+all fiends.
+
+Je-sus said to the twelve, Come, let us go to some lone place and rest a
+while. For the crowds were so great that they had no time to eat. And
+they went in a boat quiet-ly to cross the Sea of Gal-i-lee, where they
+might rest and take the food they were so much in need of. 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 was.
+
+And when Je-sus went out and saw them, his heart was moved, and he
+taught them, and made the sick ones well.
+
+When night came on, the twelve said to Je-sus, Send these off that they
+may go to the towns and buy food for them-selves, for they have nought
+to eat.
+
+Je-sus said, They need not go. Give you them some-thing to eat.
+
+They said, Shall we go out and buy bread and give it to them?
+
+Je-sus said, How much have you? Go and see.
+
+When they knew they said, We have five loaves and two small fish-es.
+
+Je-sus bade the twelve have the crowd seat them-selves in rows on the
+green grass. Then he took the five loaves and the two fish-es, and gave
+thanks to God for them. And he broke the loaves, and the fish-es, and
+the twelve gave them piece by piece to the crowd, till all had had their
+fill.
+
+When the feast was at an end there was e-nough bread and fish left to
+fill twelve bas-kets.
+
+Then Je-sus bade the twelve dis-ci-ples get in-to the boat and go back
+to Ca-per-na-um.
+
+And when the crowd had left him he went up on a high hill to pray. And
+when night came on he was there with none but God near him.
+
+The twelve were in the boat, out in the midst of the sea.
+
+Their oars were of no use, for the wind blew hard the wrong way, and
+drove them back from their course, and made the waves toss the boat here
+and there.
+
+Je-sus could see it all from his high place on the hill, and in the
+night he went down to the shore and walked out on the sea.
+
+When the twelve saw him they were in a great fright, for they thought it
+was a ghost, and they cried out in their fear.
+
+Je-sus said, Be of good cheer. It is I.
+
+[Illustration: FEED-ING THE MUL-TI-TUDE.]
+
+Pe-ter spoke from the boat, and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come
+to thee on the sea. Je-sus said to him, Come, and Pe-ter came out of the
+boat and walked on the waves to go to Je-sus. But when he heard the
+noise of the wind, and saw the waves dash all round him, he was in
+great fear; and as he felt him-self sink he cried out, Lord, save me.
+
+[Illustration: PE-TER WALK-ING ON THE WA-TER.]
+
+
+Je-sus put forth his hand and caught him, and said to him, O thou of
+lit-tle faith, why didst thou doubt me?
+
+When Je-sus and Pe-ter came in-to the boat the wind was still, and the
+twelve were soon on the shore they had set out to reach. Then they fell
+at his feet, and said, It is true that thou art the Son of God.
+
+[Illustration: CHRIST WALK-ING ON THE SEA.]
+
+As soon as it was known where Je-sus was, crowds came from all the towns
+that were near, and brought their sick in their beds that he might
+make them well. And when he went through the large and small towns
+they laid the sick in the streets, and begged that they might touch but
+the hem of his robe. And at a touch they were all made well.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI.
+
+JESUS HEALS THE SICK.--HIS FORM CHANGED ON THE MOUNT.
+
+
+JE-SUS went to Ca-per-na-um and taught the Jews there. But all that he
+said made them hate him the more, and their chief priests did all they
+could to prove that he was not the Christ who was to save them. They
+thought that he who was to be the King of the Jews would come in rich
+robes, and with all the signs of high rank. So they would have naught to
+do with a poor man like Je-sus.
+
+It made Je-sus sad to have the Jews turn from him, and he left them, and
+went out to the towns of Tyre and Si-don, which were on the sea-coast.
+And no Jews dwelt there.
+
+Yet a wo-man, as soon as she heard he was there, came out and cried to
+him, O Lord, thou Son of Da-vid, come and heal my child, for she has
+gone mad.
+
+[Illustration: THE AS-CEN-SION.]
+
+Je-sus said he was sent to none but the Jews. This he did to try her
+faith, for she was not a Jew.
+
+But she fell at his feet, and cried out, Lord help me!
+
+[Illustration: SI-DON.]
+
+Je-sus said to her, Great is thy faith; thy child is made well.
+
+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-sus.
+
+Then Je-sus and the twelve went down near the Sea of Gal-i-lee once
+more. And they brought to Je-sus a man that was deaf, and who could not
+speak plain, that he might lay his hands on him and heal him.
+
+Je-sus took him out of the crowd, and touched his ears and tongue, and
+at once the man was made well, so that he could both hear and speak.
+
+And crowds came to him, and brought those that were lame, blind, and
+dumb, and laid them down at the feet of Je-sus, that he might heal them.
+And Je-sus healed them all, so that the crowds were in a maze when they
+saw the dumb speak, the lame walk, and the blind see; and they gave
+praise and thanks to God for what he had done.
+
+At the end of six days Je-sus took Pe-ter, James, and John, and went up
+on a high mount to pray. And while he was there a great change took
+place in him. His face shone as the sun, and his clothes were as white
+as snow, and the light shone through them.
+
+And Mo-ses and E-li-jah came to him, and spoke with him.
+
+Pe-ter said, Lord, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three
+tents, one for thee, and one for Mo-ses, and one for E-li-jah.
+
+While he yet spoke there came a bright cloud, out of which a voice spoke
+and said, This is my dear Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.
+
+When Pe-ter, James, and John heard it, they bowed down to the ground,
+and were in great fear.
+
+Je-sus came and touched them, and said, Rise. Fear not. And when they
+raised their eyes they saw no one but Je-sus.
+
+As they came down from the mount, Je-sus bade them tell no one what they
+had seen till he rose from the dead.
+
+[Illustration: PE-TER AND THE TRIB-UTE MON-EY.]
+
+The next day, when they had come down from the mount, there was a great
+crowd to see Je-sus. And one man knelt at his feet and said, Lord, help
+my son, for he has fits, and the fiends in him vex him so that he falls
+in the fire and in the wa-ter. I took him to those whom thou hast taught
+to heal, to see if they could cure him; and they could not.
+
+Je-sus said, Bring him to me. And they brought him; and he fell on the
+ground and foamed at the mouth.
+
+Je-sus said to the fiend that was in the young man, Come out of him and
+vex him no more.
+
+And the fiend cried with a loud voice, and shook the young man, and came
+out of him, but left him weak, like one dead. And those who stood near
+thought he was dead. But Je-sus took him by the hand and raised him, and
+he stood on his feet and was well from that hour.
+
+Then Je-sus and the twelve went to Ca-per-na-um. And when they were in
+the house Je-sus said, Why were ye at such strife in your talk on the
+way?
+
+And for shame they held their peace, 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 Jews.
+
+When they had sat down Je-sus said to the twelve, He who seeks to be
+first shall be last of all.
+
+And he took a child and set it in the midst of them, and told them that
+they must put pride out of their hearts and be as meek as a child. For
+he who thought not of him-self, but did God's will as a child does the
+will of its fa-ther, the same should be great in the realm which Je-sus
+was to set up.
+
+Je-sus taught there for some time, and then set out for Je-ru-sa-lem.
+And the twelve went with him.
+
+When they were come to Ca-per-na-um, those that took in the trib-ute
+mon-ey came to Pe-ter and said, Doth not your mas-ter pay trib-ute.
+
+This was the tax the Jews had to pay to Ce-sar as the price of peace.
+
+Pe-ter said, Yes. And when he came in-to the house Je-sus met him and
+said.
+
+Of whom do the kings of the earth take cus-tom or trib-ute? of their own
+chil-dren or of stran-gers?
+
+Pe-ter said, Of stran-gers.
+
+Je-sus said, Then are the chil-dren free. But lest we should give cause
+for blame, go thou to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish
+that first comes up. In its mouth thou shalt find a piece of mon-ey.
+Take that and give it to them for me and thee.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII.
+
+THE GOOD SAMARITAN.--MARTHA AND MARY.--THE MAN BORN BLIND.
+
+
+JE-SUS went to the great church in Je-ru-sa-lem, and the Jews came there
+in crowds to hear him preach, and to find fault with him.
+
+And a man of law stood up and said, What must I do to be saved? Je-sus
+said to him, What does the law say? How dost thou read it? The man of
+law said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
+all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and thy neigh-bor as thy-self.
+
+Je-sus said to him, That is right. Do this, and thou shalt be saved.
+
+The man of law said, Who is my neigh-bor? Then Je-sus spoke in this way,
+and said, A man went down from Je-ru-sa-lem to Je-ri-cho. And the
+thieves fell on him, tore off his clothes and beat him, then went on
+their way and left him half dead on the ground.
+
+By chance there came a priest that way, and when he saw the poor man he
+went by him on the oth-er side of the road.
+
+Then one of the tribe of Le-vi came to the place, and took a look at the
+poor man, and went by on the oth-er side of the road.
+
+By and by a Sa-mar-i-tan--that is, a man from Sa-ma-ri-a--came that way,
+and as soon as he saw the poor man on the ground his heart was moved,
+and he made haste to help him.
+
+Now the Jews did not like the Sa-mar-i-tans, and would have nought to do
+with them. 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-side.
+
+But this he could not do, for he had a kind heart. He went to the poor
+man and bound up his wounds, and set him on his own beast, and brought
+him to an inn, and took care of him.
+
+And the next day when he left he took out two pence and gave them to the
+host, and said to him, Take care of him; and if thou hast need to spend
+more than that, when I come back I will pay thee.
+
+Which now of these three dost thou think was neigh-bor to him who fell
+a-mong thieves?
+
+[Illustration: THE GOOD SAM-AR-I-TAN.]
+
+And the man of law said, He that was kind to him.
+
+Then said Je-sus, Go, and do thou like-wise; that is, to those who need
+help go and do as the Sa-mar-i-tan did.
+
+Je-sus came to Beth-a-ny--a small place near Je-ru-sa-lem--and a wo-man,
+whose name was Mar-tha, asked him to come to her house. She had a
+sis-ter, whose name was Ma-ry, and while Mar-tha went to get things and
+to cook, and sweep, and dust, Ma-ry sat down at the feet of Je-sus to
+hear him talk.
+
+This did not please Mar-tha, who felt that she had too much work to do;
+so she came to Je-sus and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sis-ter
+hath left me to do the work a-lone? Bid her there-fore come and help me.
+
+Je-sus said to her, Mar-tha, Mar-tha, thou art full of care and vexed
+a-bout more things than there is need of. There is need of but one
+thing, and Ma-ry hath made choice of that which is good, and no one
+shall take it from her.
+
+He meant that Ma-ry chose to care for her soul, and to be taught how to
+live in this world, so that she might fit her-self for the next one. And
+the one thing we all need is a new heart, full of love to Je-sus and
+glad to do his work.
+
+One of the twelve said to Je-sus, Teach us how to pray, as John taught
+those who were with him. Je-sus taught them to pray thus:
+
+Our Fa-ther, who art in heav-en, Hal-low-ed be thy name, Thy king-dom
+come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heav-en, Give us this day
+our dai-ly bread, and for-give us our debts as we for-give our debt-ors.
+Lead us not in-to temp-ta-tion but de-liv-er us from e-vil, for thine is
+the king-dom, the pow-er, and the glo-ry, both now and for-ev-er. A-men.
+
+[Illustration: MA-RY AND MAR-THA.]
+
+Then he said, Which of you shall have a friend and shall go to him at
+mid-night and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves: for a friend of
+mine has come a long way to see me, and I have no food for him.
+
+And he who is in-side shall say, The door is now shut, and my chil-dren
+are with me in bed; I can-not rise and give thee.
+
+I say to you, though he will not rise and give him be-cause he is his
+friend, yet if he keeps on and begs hard he will rise and give him as
+much as he needs. And I say to you, Ask God for what you need and he
+will give it to you. Seek and ye shall find. Knock, and the door that is
+shut will o-pen for you.
+
+For, he said, if a child of yours should ask for bread, would you give
+him a stone? or should he ask for a fish, would you give him a snake? If
+ye then, who are full of sin, know how to give good gifts to your
+chil-dren, how much more sure is it that God will give good things to
+those who ask him.
+
+Je-sus chose three-score and ten more men and sent them out, two and
+two, in-to all the towns where he meant to come, that they might heal
+the sick and preach the good news. And they did as he told them, and
+came back full of joy at the great things they had done through the
+strength that he gave them. 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 him, and do his
+will on earth.
+
+[Illustration: THE SEND-ING OUT OF THE SEV-EN-TY.]
+
+The Feast of Tents was near at hand, and Je-sus said to the twelve, Go
+ye up to this feast, but I will not go now, for my time has not yet
+come. So he staid in Gal-i-lee for a-while. Then he went up to
+Je-ru-sa-lem, but did not make him-self known lest the Jews should kill
+him.
+
+The Jews sought for him at the feast, and said, Where is he? And there
+was much talk of him. Some said, He is a good man; and some said, No, he
+is a fraud. But no one dared to speak well of him out loud for fear of
+the Jews.
+
+In the midst of the feast Je-sus went up in-to the church and taught
+there. And he said, Ye both know me, and ye know from whence I came. I
+am not come to please my-self, but to do the will of him that sent me,
+whom ye know not. But I know him, for I have come from him, and he hath
+sent me.
+
+Then they made a rush for him, but no man laid hands on him, for his
+hour had not yet come. God had set the time for him to die, and no one
+could harm him till that day and hour.
+
+As he came from the church he saw a man who had been blind from his
+birth. Je-sus spat on the ground and made clay of the moist earth, and
+spread the clay on the eyes of the blind man.
+
+Then he told him to go and wash in a pool that was near. And he went,
+and did as he was told, and his sight came back to him.
+
+And his friends, and those who had seen him when he was blind, said, Is
+not this he that sat and begged?
+
+Some said, This is he; and some said, He is like him; but the man said,
+I am he.
+
+Then they said to him, How were thine eyes cured?
+
+And he said, A man, by the name of Je-sus, made clay and spread it on my
+eyes, and said to me, Go to the pool of Si-lo-am and wash; and I went
+and did so, and my sight came back to me.
+
+Then they said to him, Where is he? He said, I know not.
+
+[Illustration: "ONCE I WAS BLIND, BUT NOW I SEE."]
+
+It was on the day of rest that Je-sus made the clay, and the
+Phar-i-sees, when they heard of it, said, This man is not of God, for he
+does not keep the day of rest. And they went to the fa-ther and the
+mo-ther of the man who had been blind, and said to them, Is this your
+son, who ye say was born blind? How then doth he now see?
+
+His pa-rents said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born
+blind; but by what means he now sees, or who hath cured his eyes, we
+know not. He is of age, ask him; he shall speak for him-self.
+
+They spoke thus for fear of the Jews; for the Jews had made it known
+that all those who said that Je-sus was the Christ should be put out of
+the church. So they said, He is of age; ask him.
+
+Then the Phar-i-sees went to the man that was blind, and said to him,
+Give God the praise, for we know that this man is a man of sin.
+
+He said to them, What he is I know not; but this I do know, that once I
+was blind, but now I see.
+
+Then they said to him, What did he do to thee? How did he cure thine
+eyes?
+
+The man said, I have told you be-fore, and ye did not hear. Why would ye
+hear me say it once more? Would ye be of his band?
+
+Then they spoke harsh words to him, and said, Thou dost take sides with
+him, but we stand by Mo-ses. We know that God spoke to Mo-ses; but as
+for this fel-low, we know not who sent him.
+
+The man said, It is strange that ye know not who sent him, when he has
+brought sight to my blind eyes. Since the world was made we have not
+heard of a man who could give sight to one that was born blind. If this
+man were not of God he could not have done this thing.
+
+The Phar-i-sees were full of wrath, and said to the man, Thou hast dwelt
+in sin from thy birth, and wilt thou try to teach us? And they drove him
+out of the church.
+
+Je-sus heard of it, and when he found the man he said to him, Have you
+faith in the son of God?
+
+He said, Who is he, Lord, that I may put my trust in him?
+
+Je-sus said, It is he that talks with thee.
+
+The man said, Lord, I know that it must be so; and he fell at the feet
+of Je-sus, and gave praise to him.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII.
+
+JESUS, THE GOOD SHEPHERD.--LAZARUS BROUGHT TO LIFE.--THE FEAST, AND
+THOSE WHO WERE BID TO IT.
+
+
+JE-SUS said to those whom he taught, I am the good shep-herd. The good
+shep-herd will give his life for the sheep. But he that is hired, and
+who does not own the sheep, when he sees the wolf will leave the sheep
+and run to save his own life. Then the wolf lays hold of the sheep, and
+puts the flock to flight. He who is hired flees from the sheep, be-cause
+he does not care for them.
+
+I am the good shep-herd and know my sheep, and my sheep know me. And I
+will lay down my life for the sheep.
+
+Some sheep I have which are not of this fold; they too must I bring in,
+and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold, and one
+shep-herd.
+
+The Jews found fault with his words, and some said, He talks like a
+mad-man.
+
+As Je-sus went out on the porch at one side of the great church that
+He-rod built, the Jews came round him and said, How long wilt thou keep
+us in doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us so in plain words.
+
+Je-sus said, I told you, and ye had no faith in me. The works that I do,
+in God's name, are proof that I am sent from him. But ye do not trust me
+be-cause ye are not my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them,
+and they go the way I lead. They shall not be lost, and no one shall
+take them from me. For God gave them to me, and no one can take them out
+of his hand. I and my Fa-ther are one.
+
+Then the Jews took up stones to stone him, be-cause he said that he was
+God.
+
+But he fled from them, and went out of Je-ru-sa-lem to a place near the
+Jor-dan, where crowds came to hear him, and to be taught of him. And not
+a few gave their hearts to Je-sus, and sought to lead new lives; to do
+right and to be good.
+
+
+[Illustration: THE LOST SHEEP.]
+
+Ma-ry and Mar-tha, who lived at Beth-a-ny, had a bro-ther whose name was
+Laz-a-rus, and he was sick. So his sis-ters sent word to Je-sus, but
+though he was fond of these friends at Beth-a-ny he made no haste to go
+to them, but staid two days in the place where he was.
+
+Then he said to the twelve, Let us go back to Beth-a-ny, for my friend
+Laz-a-rus sleeps, and I must go and wake him.
+
+He meant that Laz-a-rus was dead, and that he must go and bring him back
+to life.
+
+But the twelve thought that he meant that Laz-a-rus slept, as we do when
+we take our rest.
+
+Now Beth-a-ny was near Je-ru-sa-lem, and a crowd of Jews had gone there
+to weep with Ma-ry and Mar-tha. As soon as Mar-tha heard that Je-sus was
+near she ran out to meet him; but Ma-ry sat still in the house. And
+Mar-tha said to Je-sus, If thou hadst been here my bro-ther would not
+have died. But I know that e-ven now what thou wilt ask of God he will
+give it thee.
+
+Je-sus said to her, Thy bro-ther shall rise a-gain.
+
+Mar-tha said, I know that he shall rise at the last day.
+
+Then Mar-tha went back to the house and said to Ma-ry, The mas-ter has
+come and asks for thee.
+
+Ma-ry rose at once and went out to meet him; and those who saw her leave
+the house, said, She goes to the grave to weep there.
+
+As soon as Ma-ry came to the place where Je-sus was, she fell at his
+feet and said, Lord, if thou hadst been here my bro-ther had not died.
+
+When Je-sus saw her tears, and the tears of those who wept with her, he
+was full of grief, and said, Where have ye laid him?
+
+They said, Lord, come and see.
+
+Je-sus wept. And when the Jews saw it they said, See how he loved him.
+And some of them said, Could not this man, who gave the blind their
+sight, have saved Laz-a-rus from death?
+
+Je-sus came to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay at the mouth of
+it.
+
+Je-sus said, Take a-way the stone. Mar-tha said to him, By this time he
+must be in a bad state, for he has been dead four days.
+
+Je-sus said to her, Did I not tell thee that if thou hadst faith thou
+should see what great things God could do?
+
+Then they took the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And
+Je-sus cried out with a loud voice, Laz-a-rus, come forth.
+
+[Illustration: LAZ-A-RUS RAISED FROM THE DEAD.]
+
+And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot in his grave
+clothes, and with his head tied up in a cloth. Je-sus said, Loose him
+and let him go.
+
+And some of the Jews who came to be with Ma-ry and Mar-tha, and saw
+this great thing which Je-sus did, had faith in him that he was the son
+of God. But some of them went to the Phar-i-sees and told what he had
+done.
+
+And the Phar-i-sees and chief priests met to talk of Je-sus and his
+deeds. They said it would not do to let him go on in this way, for he
+would raise up a host of friends who would make him their king. That
+would not please the Ce-sar of Rome, who would come and take
+Je-ru-sa-lem from them, and drive the Jews out of the land.
+
+So from that time they sought out some way in which they could put
+Je-sus to death.
+
+As Je-sus went out of the church where he had taught on the Lord's day,
+he saw a wo-man all bent up in a heap. She had been so for near a score
+of years, and could not lift her-self up.
+
+Je-sus said to her, Wo-man, thou art made well. And he laid his hands on
+her, and she rose at once, and stood up straight, and gave thanks to
+God.
+
+And the chief man of the church was wroth with Je-sus, be-cause he had
+done this deed on the day of rest. He said to those in the church, There
+are six days in which men ought to work; if you want to be cured come
+then, and not on the day of rest.
+
+Je-sus spoke, and said, Doth not each one of you loose his ox or his ass
+from the stall and lead him off to drink? And if it is right to do for
+the ox and the ass what they need, is it not right that this wom-an
+should be made well on the day of rest?
+
+[Illustration: THE GREAT SUP-PER.]
+
+And when he said this his foes hung their heads with shame, and all his
+friends were glad for the great deeds that were done by him.
+
+One Lord's day he went to the house of one of the chief Phar-i-sees, and
+while there he spoke of a man who made a great feast.
+
+And when it was all spread out, he sent his ser-vant out to bid those
+come in whom he had asked to the feast.
+
+And they all cried out that they could not come. The first one said, I
+have bought a piece of ground, and must go and see it; so pray do not
+look for me.
+
+The next one said, I have bought five yoke of ox-en, and must go and try
+them; so pray do not look for me.
+
+The next one said, I have just ta-ken a wife, and so can-not come.
+
+So the ser-vant came back to the house and told his mas-ter these
+things. Then the rich man was in a rage, and he said to his ser-vant,
+Make haste and go out through the streets and lanes of the town, and
+bring in the poor, the lame, and the halt and the blind.
+
+And the ser-vant did as he was told. Then he came and said, Lord, I
+have done as thou didst bid me, and yet there is room for more.
+
+The lord of the house then said, Go out through the high-ways, and down
+by the hedge-rows, and make the folks come in, that my house may be
+full; for none of those who were first called shall taste of my feast.
+
+The man who spreads the feast is God. The feast is the good news--that
+Christ will save us from our sins. The ser-vant means those who preach,
+and urge men to come to Christ. Those who were first bid to the feast
+and would not come mean the Jews. And to bid the poor, the lame, and the
+blind come in-to the feast, means that the poor and the sick are to be
+saved as well as the rich and the great.
+
+Great crowds drew near to Je-sus, and he told them that though they
+might come and hear him preach, if they did not care for him in their
+hearts they were not true friends, and could not be of his band. They
+must care more for him than for all else in the whole world; and must
+bear his cross--that is, they must do what is right, as Je-sus did.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV.
+
+THE PRODIGAL SON.--THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN.--BABES BROUGHT TO
+JESUS.--ZACCHEUS CLIMBS A TREE.
+
+
+JE-SUS said, There was a rich man who had two sons. One of them was
+wild, and fond of feasts and of gay times, and did not care for his
+home, or the life that he led there. So he went to his fa-ther and said,
+Give me, I pray thee, my share of the wealth thou hast laid up for thine
+heirs, that I may spend it as I choose. And he took his share, and went
+far from home, and led a gay life.
+
+And when he had spent all he had, there came a dearth in that land, and
+he was in great want.
+
+That he might not starve, he went out in search of work, and a man hired
+him, and sent him in the fields to feed swine. 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 fed, but none of the men gave
+it to him.
+
+Then he said to him-self, The men my fa-ther hires have more food than
+they can eat, while I starve for want of what they can well spare. I
+will rise and go to my fa-ther, and will say to him, Fa-ther, I have
+done wrong in thy sight, and in the sight of God, and have no more right
+to be called thy son. Let me come back to thy house, and be as a
+ser-vant.
+
+So he rose and went to his fa-ther. And while he was yet a long way off
+his fa-ther saw him, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.
+
+And the son said to him, Fa-ther I have done wrong in thy sight, and in
+the sight of God, and have no more right to be called thy son.
+
+But the fa-ther said to his hired men, Bring forth the best robe and put
+it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring
+in the fat-ted calf, and kill it, and let us eat and be glad. For this
+my son was dead, and now lives; he was lost and is found. And tears and
+sighs gave place to smiles and songs of joy.
+
+[Illustration: THE PROD-I-GAL'S RE-TURN.]
+
+Now the son who had staid at home and kept his share of wealth that his
+fa-ther gave him, was at work in the field. And as he came near the
+house he heard the gay sounds, and called one of the hired men to him
+and asked what it all meant.
+
+The man said, Thy broth-er is here, and thy fa-ther has made a feast, so
+great is his joy to have him back safe and sound. And the young man was
+in a rage, and would not go in the house; so his fa-ther came out and
+coaxed him.
+
+And he said to his fa-ther, For years and years have I been true to thee
+and broke none of thy laws. But thou didst not kill a kid for me that I
+might make a feast for my friends. But as soon as this thy son was come,
+who spent thy wealth in ways of sin, thou didst kill the fat-ted calf
+for him.
+
+And the fa-ther said, My son, I have loved thee all thy life, and all
+that I own is the same as if it was thine; yet it was right that we
+should be glad and sing songs of joy, for this thy broth-er was dead and
+now lives; he was lost and is found.
+
+In this way Je-sus taught those who found fault with him, that God was
+glad to have men turn from their sins and come back to him. He loved
+them in spite of their sins, and when they made up their minds to leave
+them, and to do what was right, God met them more than half way, and
+gave peace and joy to their hearts.
+
+A prod-i-gal is one who wastes all that he has.
+
+Then Je-sus spoke to those who were proud, and felt as if no one else
+was quite as good as they were. And he said, Two men went up in-to the
+church to pray. One of them--a Phar-i-see--chose a place where all could
+see him; and he stood up and said, God I thank thee that I am not like
+oth-er men. I fast twice a week, and I give to the aid of the church a
+tenth part of all I own.
+
+[Illustration: THE PHAR-I-SEE.]
+
+But the oth-er man stood far off, and bowed his head, and beat on his
+breast as he said, God help me, and for-give my sins. And God for-gave
+this man more than he did the oth-er, for those that are proud shall be
+brought low, and those who are meek shall be set in a high place.
+
+Then babes were brought to Je-sus that he might lay his hands on them
+and bless them. And when the twelve saw it, they tried to keep them
+back, and would have sent them a-way.
+
+This did not please Je-sus, and he said to them, Let the chil-dren come
+to me, and do not hold them back, for of such is the king-dom of God.
+
+He meant that no one could have a home with God who was not as good, and
+sweet, and pure as a young child, who hates sin, and loves God with his
+whole heart. Then Je-sus took the babes up in his arms, and laid his
+hands on them, and blest them.
+
+And as he and the twelve went on their way, 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 spoke. He said that the Jews would beat
+him and put him to death, but that he should rise from the dead on the
+third day.
+
+None of the twelve knew what he meant by these things, but thought he
+would set up his throne on earth, and reign as kings do in this world,
+and that each one of them would have a place of high rank near his
+throne.
+
+[Illustration: "SUF-FER LIT-TLE CHIL-DREN TO COME UN-TO ME."]
+
+When it was known that they were to pass through Jer-i-cho a great crowd
+came out to meet them. And there was a rich man there who had a great
+wish to see Je-sus. And his name was Zac-che-us. He was so small that he
+was quite hid by the crowd, and he was in great fear that Je-sus would
+pass and he not see him. So he ran on a-head of the crowd; and got up
+in-to a tree, from whence he could look down at this great man of whom
+he had heard.
+
+And when Je-sus came to the place he raised his eyes and saw him, and
+said to him, Zac-che-us, make haste and come down, for to-day I must
+stay at thy house.
+
+And Zac-che-us came down and went with Je-sus, and was glad to have him
+as a guest. And there was quite a stir in the crowd, and the Jews found
+fault with Je-sus, and said that he had gone to be a guest with a man
+that was full of sin.
+
+But Zac-che-us told Je-sus that if he had done wrong he would do so no
+more, but would try to be just to all men and to lead a good and pure
+life.
+
+And when Je-sus saw that he meant what he said, he told Zac-che-us that
+God would blot out the sins of the past, and help him to lead a new
+life. For he said that he had come to the world to seek those who had
+gone wrong, and were like lost sheep, and to save them and bring them
+to his home in the sky, where there was no such thing as sin or death.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV.
+
+THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER.--THE SUPPER AT BETHANY.
+
+
+NOW the great feast of the Pass-o-ver was near, and a great crowd of
+Jews went up to Je-ru-sa-lem to keep it. It had been kept since the days
+of Mo-ses, when God smote the first-born of E-gypt, and passed o-ver the
+homes of the Jews.
+
+And those who were on the watch for Je-sus to do him harm, said, as they
+stood in the church, What think ye? will he not come to the feast? For
+the chief priests and Phar-i-sees had sent out word that those who knew
+where Je-sus was should make it known, that they might take him.
+
+Now six days be-fore the great feast, Je-sus came to Beth-a-ny, where
+Laz-a-rus was whom he had raised from the dead. Some of the Jews knew
+that he was there, and they came not so much to see Je-sus as to see
+Laz-a-rus.
+
+And the chief priests sought for a way to put Laz-a-rus to death, as
+some of the Jews, when they saw him had faith in Je-sus, and gave their
+hearts to him.
+
+Je-sus left Beth-a-ny to go to Je-ru-sa-lem, 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 her.
+
+Je-sus said to her, What wilt thou? She said to him, Grant that these my
+two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the oth-er on thy left,
+in thy king-dom.
+
+Je-sus said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink of the cup that I
+drink of, and bear all that I shall have to bear? They said, We can.
+Je-sus said, Ye shall drink of the cup, and bear the cross, but to sit
+on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give; but God gives it to
+those who are fit for it.
+
+When the ten heard this they were wroth with James and John. But Je-sus
+told them that those who sought to rule would be made to serve, and that
+he him-self came not to be served by men but to lay down his life for
+them.
+
+[Illustration: CHRIST AND THE MOTH-ER OF ZEB-E-DEE's CHIL-DREN.]
+
+And when they came to the Mount of Ol-ives, Je-sus sent two of the
+twelve, and said to them, Go to the small town which is near you, and
+you shall find there a colt tied, on which no man has rode. Loose him,
+and bring him to me, and if you should be asked, Why do ye this? Say
+that the Lord hath need of him, and he will be sent at once.
+
+The men did as Je-sus told them, and brought the young ass and put their
+robes on his back, and Je-sus sat on him.
+
+And as he went out on the road the crowds on their way to the feast
+spread their robes be-fore him, and strewed the way with green boughs
+from the palm trees. And they waved palms in their hands, and made the
+air ring with shouts of, Ho-san-na to the son of Da-vid! Blest is he
+that comes in the name of the Lord! Ho-san-na in the high-est!
+
+[Illustration: CHIL-DREN IN THE TEM-PLE CRY-ING, "HO-SAN-NA TO THE SON
+OF DA-VID."]
+
+[Illustration: THE EN-TRY IN-TO JER-U-SA-LEM.]
+
+This was the way in which they used to meet and greet their kings, and
+they thought to please Je-sus so that he would pay them back when he set
+up his throne on earth. For the most of them did not love him in their
+hearts.
+
+As Je-sus came near to Je-ru-sa-lem he looked at it, and wept when he
+thought of the grief that the Jews were to know.
+
+And he taught each day in the church at Je-ru-sa-lem, but at night he
+went to Beth-a-ny to sleep.
+
+One morn as he was on his way back to Je-ru-sa-lem he saw a fig-tree by
+the road-side, and went to it to pluck some of the fruit. But he found
+on it naught but leaves. Then he said to it, Let no more figs grow on
+this tree.
+
+The next day when the twelve went by they saw that the fig-tree was
+dried up from its roots.
+
+And they thought of the words that Je-sus spoke, and said, How soon has
+the fig-tree dried up!
+
+Je-sus told them that they might do as much and more than he had done to
+the fig-tree, if they had faith in God, and sought strength from him.
+
+[Illustration: CHRIST WEEP-ING O-VER JER-U-SA-LEM.]
+
+Then he spoke to them in this way: There was a rich man who laid out a
+vine-yard, and dug a ditch round it to keep wild beasts and thieves
+a-way, and made a wine press, and let the place out to men who were to
+give him part of the fruit. Then he went off to a far land.
+
+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-yard, that he might
+bring back his share of the grapes.
+
+But the men took the ser-vant and beat him, and sent him off with no
+fruit in his hands.
+
+Then the one who owned the place sent once more, and the bad men threw
+stones at this ser-vant, and hurt him so in the head that he was like to
+die. The next one they killed, and so things went on.
+
+Now the rich man, who owned the place, had but one son, who was most
+dear to him. And he said, If I send my son to them they will be kind to
+him, and treat him well.
+
+But as soon as the bad men saw him they said, This is the heir; let us
+kill him, and all that is his shall be ours. And they took him and put
+him to death, and cast him out of the vine-yard.
+
+The vine-yard is the world. The one who owns it is God. The bad men are
+the Jews; he had taught them his laws, and they had vowed to keep them.
+When they did not do it, God sent priests and wise men to try and make
+them do what was right. These were stoned, and not a few were slain.
+
+At last he sent his own dear son, Je-sus. Now they meant to kill him,
+as the bad men had killed the heir of the vine-yard.
+
+When the Jews heard this talk they knew that Je-sus spoke of them, and
+they were wroth with him, and in haste to kill him.
+
+One day, on his way out of the tem-ple, Je-sus sat down near the box in
+which mon-ey was put for the use of the church. And he saw that the rich
+put in large sums. And there came a poor wid-ow who threw in two mites,
+which make a far-thing, or the fourth of a pen-ny.
+
+Je-sus said to the twelve, This poor wid-ow has cast in more than all
+the rest. For they had so much they did not miss what they gave; while
+she, who was poor and in want, did cast in all that she had.
+
+[Illustration: THE WID-OW'S MITE.]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI.
+
+PARABLES.
+
+
+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 teach.
+
+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-yard.
+
+The price was fixed at a pen-ny a day, and those who would work for that
+were sent out to the vine-yard.
+
+At nine o'clock in the day he went out and saw men in the mar-ket place
+who were out of work, and he said to them, Go ye to the vine-yard, and I
+will pay you what is right. And they went their way.
+
+He went out at noon, and at three o'clock, and found more men whom he
+sent to work in his vine-yard. Later in the day, when it was near six
+o'clock, he went out and saw more men, to whom he said, Why stand ye
+here all the day i-dle?
+
+They said to him, Be-cause no man has hired us.
+
+He said, Go ye in-to the vine-yard, and what is right I will give thee.
+
+So when night came, the lord of the vine-yard had the work-men called
+in, and each one was paid a pen-ny.
+
+When the first came they thought they should have more, and when they
+were paid but a pen-ny they found fault, and said, These last have
+wrought but one hour, and thou hast paid them the same as us who have
+born the toil and heat of the day.
+
+
+[Illustration: LA-BOR-ERS IN THE VINE-YARD.]
+
+The mas-ter said, Friend, I do thee no wrong. Didst thou not say thou
+wouldst work for me for a pen-ny a day? Take what is thine, and go thy
+way; for I have a right to do as I will with mine own. And the last
+shall be first and the first last.
+
+Je-sus told them a par-a-ble of ten maids who went out to meet the
+bride-groom. For in those days the man who was wed brought his bride
+home at night, and some of his friends used to go out to meet him.
+
+These ten maids had lit their lamps, and gone out to meet the
+bride-groom. But he did not come as soon as they thought he would, and
+as the hours went on they all fell a-sleep.
+
+Now five of these maids were wise, and five were not. The wise ones had
+brought oil with them, so that if their lamps should go out they could
+fill them. Those who were not wise had no oil but that which was in
+their lamps.
+
+At mid-night those who were on the watch cried out, Lo, the bride-groom
+comes! Go ye out to meet him.
+
+And the five wise maids rose at once, and went to work to trim their
+lamps.
+
+The five who were not wise, stood by and said, Give us of your oil, for
+our lamps have gone out.
+
+But the wise ones said, Not so; for we have no more than we need. Go ye
+and buy of those who have oil to sell.
+
+And while they went out to buy, the bride-groom came, and those who were
+in trim went in with him, and the door was shut.
+
+Then the five maids who had been out to buy oil came to the door, and
+cried out, Lord, Lord, let us in. But he said, I do not know you; and
+would not let them in.
+
+The bride-groom means Je-sus, who is to come at the last day. The ten
+maids are those who claim to love him, and who set out to meet him on
+that day. The oil is the love in our hearts, which burns and keeps our
+faith bright. We are to watch and wait for him, for we know not the day
+nor the hour when he will come.
+
+[Illustration: THE FOOL-ISH VIR-GINS.]
+
+Je-sus came to the town of Beth-a-ny, and they made a sup-per for him
+there. In those days they did not sit at their meals on chairs as we do,
+but lay down on a couch, or lounge, as high as the ta-ble, so that they
+could rest on the left arm, and have the right hand and arm free to
+use.
+
+Mar-tha, Ma-ry, and Laz-a-rus were there, and while Je-sus sat at meat
+Ma-ry came with a flask of rich oil, that was worth a great price. And
+she broke the flask and poured the oil on the head of Je-sus.
+
+And there were some there who found fault with this great waste, 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 good.
+
+Je-sus said, Blame her not. She has done a good work on me. For the poor
+you have with you all the time, and you may do them good when you
+choose. But you will not have me al-ways.
+
+Then Ju-das went to the chief priests and said, What will you give me if
+I bring you to the place where Je-sus is, so that you may take him? They
+said they would pay him well. And from that time he was on the watch to
+catch Je-sus a-lone.
+
+Je-sus said, There was a rich man, who wore fine clothes, and had great
+feasts spread for him each day. And a beg-gar named Laz-a-rus lay at his
+gate, full of sores; but the rich man gave him not so much as a crumb.
+And the dogs came and licked his sores.
+
+The beg-gar died, and was borne by the an-gels to A-bra-ham's bo-som.
+The rich man died and was laid in the ground. And while in the pains of
+hell he raised his eyes and saw A-bra-ham with Laz-a-rus on his bo-som,
+and he cried and said, Fa-ther A-bra-ham, have mer-cy on me, and send
+Laz-a-rus that he may dip the tip of his fin-ger in wa-ter and cool my
+tongue, for this flame tor-ments me.
+
+[Illustration: THE RICH MAN AND THE BEG-GAR.]
+
+But A-bra-ham said, Son, thou in thy life-time had thy good things,
+while Laz-a-rus was poor and had a hard lot. Now he has ease from all
+his pains and thou art in tor-ments. And be-tween us and you there is a
+great gulf; none can go from here to you, nor come from you to us.
+
+Then the rich man said, I pray thee then send him to my fa-ther's house,
+for I have five breth-ren, that he may speak to them, so that they come
+not to this place of tor-ment.
+
+A-bra-ham said, They have Mo-ses and the proph-ets, let them hear them.
+
+And the rich man said, Nay, fa-ther A-bra-ham; but if one went to them
+from the dead they will turn from their sins.
+
+And he said to him, If they hear not Mo-ses and the proph-ets they will
+not turn from their sins though one rose from the dead.
+
+A stew-ard is one who takes charge of a house or lands, pays bills,
+hires work-men, and is the mas-ter's right-hand man.
+
+Je-sus said, There was a rich man who had a stew-ard. And word was
+brought to him that this stew-ard made a bad use of his mas-ter's
+wealth. So the rich man said to him, What is this that I hear of thee?
+Let me know how thou hast done thy work, if thou wouldst keep thy place.
+
+The stew-ard said to him-self, What shall I do if my lord takes my place
+from me? I can-not dig, and am too proud to beg. I have made up my mind
+to do some-thing that will put me on good terms with the rich, so that
+they will not close their doors to me should I lose my place here as
+stew-ard.
+
+So he sent for all those who were in debt to his lord. And he said to
+the first, How much dost thou owe? And he said, A hun-dred mea-sures of
+oil. The stew-ard said, Take thy bill, and sit down and write fif-ty.
+
+Then said he to the next one, How much dost thou owe? The man said, A
+hun-dred mea-sures of wheat. The stew-ard said to him, Take thy bill,
+and write four-score.
+
+[Illustration: THE UN-JUST STEW-ARD.]
+
+And the lord praised the un-just stew-ard, for he thought he had done a
+wise thing.
+
+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 poor.
+
+He that is faith-ful in small things is faith-ful al-so in large ones.
+And he that is un-just in the least, is un-just in much more.
+
+No man can serve two mas-ters.
+
+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 hand.
+
+He said to them, A rich man had to go to a far land, so he called his
+ten ser-vants that he might leave his goods in their charge. To the
+first one he gave five tal-ents. A tal-ent is a large sum in sil-ver. To
+the next he gave two tal-ents; and to the third one. And he said to
+them, Make a good use of these gifts till I come back; and then went on
+his way.
+
+Then he that had five tal-ents went out and bought and sold and made
+five tal-ents more. And the one that had two did the same. But he that
+had one dug a hole in the earth and hid his lord's mon-ey.
+
+When the rich man came back he sent for his ser-vants that they might
+tell him what they had done while he was gone. So he that had had five
+tal-ents came and said, Lord, thou didst give me five tal-ents, and
+see--I have gained five more.
+
+His lord said to him, Well done, good and faith-ful ser-vant, thou hast
+been faith-ful o-ver a few things, I will make thee ru-ler o-ver ma-ny
+things; en-ter thou in-to the joy of thy lord.
+
+Then he that had two tal-ents came and said, Lord, thou didst give me
+two tal-ents and I have gained two more.
+
+His lord said to him, Well done, good and faith-ful ser-vant, thou hast
+been faith-ful o-ver a few things, I will make thee ru-ler o-ver ma-ny
+things; en-ter thou in-to the joy of thy lord.
+
+[Illustration: THE TAL-ENTS.]
+
+Then he who had but the one tal-ent came and said, Lord, I knew that
+thou wert a hard man, and didst reap where thou hast not sown, and
+gleaned where thou hast not strewn; and, for fear I should lose it, I
+hid thy tal-ent in the earth, and here it is.
+
+His lord said, Thou wick-ed and la-zy ser-vant, 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 use, so that when I came back I should have my own and more
+with it. Take there-fore the one tal-ent from him and give it to him
+that hath ten tal-ents. For to him that hath much shall more be giv-en;
+but from him that hath not, shall be ta-ken a-way all that he hath. And
+cast ye the use-less ser-vant in-to out-er dark-ness, where shall be
+weep-ing and gnash-ing of teeth.
+
+Christ meant to teach by this that we were to make use of the gifts or
+tal-ents that God gave us, and add to them as much as we could. Then
+when we die God will say to us, Well done, and bid us share in the joy
+that our lord has in store for us.
+
+If we have but one gift we must use that and serve God with it, or at
+the last day he will take that from us, and we shall have no part in the
+joy of our lord.
+
+Je-sus said, The good news is like a king who made a wed-ding feast for
+his son. And he sent his ser-vants to call in those who were bid to the
+feast. But they would not come. Then he sent out more ser-vants to urge
+them to come to the wed-ding. But they made light of it, and went their
+ways, to their farms or shops; and some fell on the king's ser-vants
+and slew them.
+
+When the king heard of this he was wroth, and he said to his ser-vants,
+Go ye out to the high-ways and bring in to the wed-ding those ye find
+there.
+
+And the ser-vants did so, and brought in both bad and good, so there was
+no lack of guests at the wed-ding.
+
+[Illustration: WED-DING GAR-MENT.]
+
+When the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not
+on a wed-ding gar-ment. And he said to him, Friend, why art thou here
+with-out a wed-ding gar-ment. And the man spoke not.
+
+Then said the king to the ser-vants, Bind him hand and foot and take him
+off, and cast him in-to out-er dark-ness. For ma-ny are called but few
+are cho-sen.
+
+God is the king who made the feast for Je-sus Christ, his son, to which
+all are bid. The wed-ding gar-ment we need is a true heart, full of love
+to Je-sus. The good news is for all, yet those who think more of this
+world than they do of heav-en, Christ does not choose for his own, and
+they are lost.
+
+Je-sus said the good news is like un-to leav-en or yeast, which a wo-man
+took and hid in some meal till the whole of it was light.
+
+[Illustration: LEAV-EN.]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII.
+
+THE LORD'S SUPPER.--JESUS IN GETHSEMANE.--THE JUDAS KISS.--PETER DENIES
+JESUS.
+
+
+NOW the day was come when the Jews were to keep the feast of the
+pass-o-ver. To do this each man took a lamb to the church, and killed it
+on the al-tar. The priest would burn the fat, but the rest of the lamb
+the man took home, and it was cooked, and he and his folks ate of it in
+the night.
+
+The twelve came to Je-sus to ask him at what place they should set out
+their feast. For they had no house or home of their own.
+
+Je-sus sent forth two of them and said, Go ye to Je-ru-sa-lem, and there
+shall meet you a man with a jug of wa-ter. Go to the house where he
+goes, and say to the man who lives there, The mas-ter bids thee show us
+the room where he shall come to eat the feast with his friends.
+
+And he will show you a large room, up-stairs; there spread the feast.
+
+The men did as Je-sus told them, and the man showed them the room, and
+there they spread the feast.
+
+And at night Je-sus came with his twelve friends. And as they did eat,
+Je-sus said, There is one here who will give me up to the Jews.
+
+These words made them all feel sad.
+
+Now there was one of the twelve of whom Je-sus was most fond. His name
+was John. And as he lay with his head on Je-sus' breast he said to him,
+Lord, who is it?
+
+Je-sus said, It is he to whom I shall give the piece of bread I dip in
+the dish.
+
+And when he had dipped the bread he gave it to Ju-das. And he said to
+him, What is in thy heart to do, do at once.
+
+Now none of the rest knew why Je-sus spoke thus. But as Ju-das had
+charge of the bag in which the mon-ey was kept, some of them thought
+that he bade him buy things they were in need of, or give some-thing to
+the poor. Then Ju-das went out of the house where Je-sus and his friends
+were; and it was night.
+
+And when he had gone, Je-sus said to them, I shall be with you but a
+short time. But ere I go a new law I give to you--the law of love. As I
+have loved you so shall ye love each oth-er. By this shall all men know
+that ye love me.
+
+Pe-ter said, Lord, where dost thou go?
+
+Je-sus said, Where I go thou canst not come now, but thou shalt be with
+me by-and-by.
+
+Pe-ter said, Lord, why can-not I go with thee now? I will lay down my
+life for thy sake!
+
+Je-sus said, I tell thee, Pe-ter, the cock shall not crow thrice till
+thou hast sworn thrice that thou dost not know me.
+
+And as they did eat Je-sus took the bread and gave thanks and broke it,
+and gave to them, and said, Take and eat.
+
+Then he took some wine in a cup, and when he had thanked God, he gave it
+to them and they all drank of it.
+
+[Illustration: PRAY-ING IN THE GAR-DEN.]
+
+And he told them that when he was dead they must meet from time to
+time, and eat the bread and drink the wine in the same way that he had
+shown them; and as of-ten as they did it they were to think of him, and
+the death that he died to save men from their sins.
+
+Je-sus spoke with them for some time. Then a hymn was sung and they all
+went from the house, and came to the Mount of Ol-ives. And they went to
+a gar-den there, known as Geth-sem-a-ne. And Je-sus took with him
+Pe-ter, James, and John, and said to them, Sit ye here and watch with me
+while I go and pray. And he went from them a short way, and knelt down
+and prayed. And when he thought how soon he was to be put to death for
+our sins, he was in such grief and pain that the sweat seemed like great
+drops of blood as it fell to the ground. And God sent an an-gel to calm
+him and give him strength.
+
+And when he rose from his knees and went back to where his friends were,
+he found that they slept. And he said to Pe-ter, What, couldst thou not
+watch with me one hour?
+
+And he went off to pray once more. And when he came back his friends
+still slept! And he left them and came back a third time. Then he said,
+Rise up and let us go, for the worst of my foes is close at hand.
+
+[Illustration: JU-DAS BE-TRAY-ING CHRIST.]
+
+Now Ju-das had been on the watch, and knew when Je-sus went to the
+gar-den. And as it was dark he thought it would be the best time to give
+him up to the Jews. So he went to the chief priests and told them, and
+they sent a band of men out with him to take Je-sus.
+
+Je-sus, who knew all things, knew that Ju-das was near, yet he did not
+flee.
+
+Ju-das had told the band that he would give them a sign by which they
+might know which was Je-sus. He said, The one I shall kiss, is he; take
+him, and hold him fast. Then he came to Je-sus and gave him a kiss.
+
+And the men laid their hands on Je-sus and took him. His friends who
+were near him said to him, Lord, shall we fight them with the sword?
+
+Pe-ter who had a sword struck one of the band and cut off his ear.
+
+Je-sus said to him, Put thy sword back in its sheath. Could I not pray
+to God to send me a host of an-gels to fight for me and save me from
+death? But how then could the words of wise men come true? Then Je-sus
+touched the man's ear and made it well. And he said to those who took
+him, Have ye come out with swords and staves as if I were a thief, to
+take me? I sat from day to day and taught you in the church, and you did
+not harm me.
+
+Then Pe-ter, James and John, and the rest, were in great fear, and fled
+from him.
+
+The men that took Je-sus led him off to the house of the high priest,
+where the scribes and those who had charge of the church had all met.
+
+Pe-ter kept up with the crowd and went in a side door of the house to
+sit by the fire. And one of the maids of the high priest came to him,
+and said, Thou wast with Je-sus. But he said, I know not what you mean.
+
+Then he went out on the porch and the cock crew. While there a maid said
+to those who stood near, This one was with Je-sus.
+
+And Pe-ter said once more that he did not know him. And the cock crew
+once more.
+
+Now it chanced that one of the high priest's men was a kins-man of the
+one whose ear Pe-ter had cut off. And he said to him, Did I not see thee
+in the gar-den with him?
+
+Pe-ter swore that he was not there, and did not know the man. And Je-sus
+gave him a look as he went by, that was like a stab in Pe-ter's heart.
+For then the cock crew for the third time, and it came to Pe-ter's mind
+what Je-sus had said,--Ere the cock crow thrice, thou shalt de-ny me
+thrice. And he went out and wept as if his heart would break, so great
+was his grief and shame.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII.
+
+CHRIST BEFORE PILATE.--ON THE CROSS.
+
+
+THE chief court of the Jews met in a room near the church, and was made
+up of three-score and ten men. The high priest and chief priests were
+there, and the scribes, and head men of the church, and it was for them
+to say what should be done to those who broke the laws of Mo-ses; some
+of whom had to pay fines, or to be shut up in jail. 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 done.
+
+It was night when the Jews took Je-sus, and as soon as it was day they
+brought him in-to court to have him tried. The high priest said to him,
+Art thou the Christ? tell us.
+
+Je-sus said, If I tell you, ye will not think I speak the truth.
+
+Then they all said, Art thou the son of God?
+
+And he said, I am.
+
+Then the high priest rent his clothes, and said, By his own words we can
+judge him. What do you say shall be done to him? And they all cried out,
+Let him be put to death!
+
+Then they spit in his face, and struck Je-sus with the palms of their
+hands. And they bound him and led him blind-fold to Pi-late's house, and
+told Pi-late some of the things he had said and done.
+
+Pi-late said to Je-sus, Art thou a king? Je-sus said, I am. But my realm
+is not of this world, else would my men have fought to set me free.
+
+[Illustration: "BE-HOLD THE MAN."]
+
+Pi-late said, I find no fault with this man. And the Jews were more
+fierce, and cried that his words had made a great stir in all the land
+from Gal-i-lee to that place. Pi-late said, if he came from Gal-i-lee
+they must take him to He-rod, who ruled that part of the land. And
+He-rod was in Je-ru-sa-lem at that time.
+
+When He-rod saw Je-sus he was glad, for he had heard much of him, and
+was in hopes to see some great things done by him. But when He-rod spoke
+to Je-sus, Je-sus said not one word. And the chief priests and scribes
+stood by, and cried out that he claimed to be king of the Jews, and the
+son of God, and had taught men that they need not keep the laws of
+Mo-ses or of Rome. These were crimes for which he ought to be put to
+death.
+
+So He-rod and his men of war made sport of Je-sus, and put on him a robe
+such as kings wear; for he had said he was a king. And then He-rod sent
+him back to Pi-late.
+
+Pi-late said, I find no fault in this man; nor does He-rod, for I sent
+you to him; he had done naught for which he should be put to death.
+
+Now it was the rule when this great feast was held, that one of those
+who were shut up in jail should be set free. And at this time there was
+a Jew there, whose name was Ba-rab-bas; and he had killed some one.
+
+Pi-late said, Which one shall I set free--Ba-rab-bas, or Je-sus, who is
+called Christ?
+
+[Illustration: PI-LATE WASH-ING HIS HANDS.]
+
+While Pi-late spoke, his wife sent word to him to do no harm to that
+just man, for she had had a strange dream a-bout him. But the chief
+priests urged the mob to ask that Ba-rab-bas be set free.
+
+Pi-late said, What then shall I do with Je-sus, who is called Christ?
+
+They cried out, Hang him! Hang him!
+
+When Pi-late saw that he could not get them to ask for Je-sus, he took
+some wa-ter and washed his hands in full view of the mob, and said, I am
+not to blame for the death of this just man; see ye to it.
+
+Then the Jews said, Let his blood be on us and on our chil-dren.
+
+But Pi-late was to blame for Je-sus' death; for he gave him up to the
+Jews that he might please them, and keep the place that he had.
+
+Now it was the law of the land that a man should be scourged ere he was
+hung. So Je-sus was stripped to the waist, and his hands were bound to a
+low post in front of him so as to make him stoop, and while he stood in
+this way he was struck with rods, or a whip of cords, till the blood
+burst through the skin.
+
+Then Pi-late's men of war led him to a room, and took off his own robe,
+and put on him one of a red and blue tint. Then they made a crown of
+thorns and put it on his head; and they put a reed in his right hand.
+Then they bowed down to him, as if he were a king, and mocked at him and
+said, Hail, King of the Jews! And they spat on him, and took the reed
+and struck him on the head, and smote him with their hands.
+
+[Illustration: BE-HOLD THE MAN.]
+
+When Ju-das saw that Je-sus was to be put to death, he was in great
+grief to think he had brought such a fate on one who had done no wrong.
+And he took back to the chief priests the sum they had paid him, and he
+said to them, I have done a great sin to give up to you one who had done
+no wrong. They said to him, What is that to us? See thou to that. Then
+Ju-das threw down the sil-ver, and went out and hung him-self.
+
+Then the men of war took off the gay robe from Je-sus, and put his own
+clothes on him and led him out to put him to death.
+
+They met a man named Si-mon, and made him bear the cross. And a great
+crowd of men and wo-men went with them who wept and mourned for Je-sus.
+Je-sus told them not to weep for him, but for them-selves and their
+chil-dren, be-cause of the woes that were to come on the Jews.
+
+They brought him to a place called Cal-va-ry, not far from the gates of
+Je-ru-sa-lem. And they nailed his feet and hands to the cross, which was
+then set up in the ground. And all the while Je-sus prayed, Fa-ther
+for-give them, for they know not what they do. He meant that they did
+not know how great was their sin; nor that they had in truth put to
+death the son of God. With him they hung two thieves, one on his right
+hand, and one on his left.
+
+[Illustration: CHRIST CAR-RY-ING HIS CROSS.]
+
+Then they sat down to watch Je-sus, who hung for hours on the cross in
+great pain, ere his death came to him. And they took his robes and gave
+each one a share; but for his coat they cast lots. And at the top of
+the cross Pi-late had put up these words:
+
+JE-SUS OF NAZ-A-RETH, KING OF THE JEWS.
+
+And the Jews as they went by shook their heads at him, and said, If thou
+be the son of God come down from the cross, and the chief priests and
+the scribes mocked him and said, His trust was in God; let God save him
+now if he will have him.
+
+[Illustration: CHRIST ON CAL-VA-RY.]
+
+One of the thieves spoke to Je-sus and said, If thou art the Christ save
+thy-self and us.
+
+But the oth-er said, Dost thou not fear God when thou art so soon to
+die? It is right that we should die for our sins, but this man has done
+no wrong. And he said to Je-sus, Think of me when thou art on thy
+throne. Je-sus said to him, This day shalt thou be with me where God
+is.
+
+[Illustration: THE CRU-CI-FIX-ION.]
+
+Now there stood near the cross of Je-sus his mo-ther, and John--the one
+of the twelve most dear to him. And he bade John take care of his
+mo-ther, and told her to look on John as her son. And John took her to
+his own home to take care of her and give her all that she had need of.
+
+From the sixth to the ninth hour--that is, from twelve to three
+o'clock--the sky was dark in all the land. And Je-sus thought that God
+had turned his face from him. And he cried out with a loud voice O God!
+O God! why hast thou left me?
+
+One of the men near thought he was in pain, and he took a sponge and
+dipped it in the gall, and put it up on a reed to his mouth, so that
+Je-sus might drink. Je-sus wet his lips with the drink that was to ease
+his pain, then spoke once more, bowed his head and died.
+
+Then the veil which hung in the church, in front of the ark, was torn in
+two; the earth shook; the rocks were split; the graves gave up their
+dead, and those who, while they lived, had served the Lord, rose and
+came out of their graves and went in-to Je-ru-sa-lem and were seen
+there.
+
+When those who had kept watch of Je-sus as he hung on the cross, saw
+these things that were done, they were in great fear, and said, There is
+no doubt that this man was the son of God.
+
+[Illustration: LAY-ING IN THE TOMB.]
+
+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 graves. For it
+would not do for them to hang on the cross on the day of rest. The men
+on guard broke the legs of the thieves to kill them, and thrust a spear
+in-to Je-sus' side to make sure that he was dead.
+
+[Illustration: DEATH OF SAP-PHI-RA.]
+
+Now there was near Cal-va-ry a gar-den, in which was a tomb in which no
+one had been laid. It was cut in a rock, and was owned by a rich
+man--Jo-seph of Ar-i-ma-the-a. He came to Pi-late and begged that he
+might lay Je-sus in this grave, and Pi-late told him to do so. And
+Jo-seph took Je-sus down from the cross, and wrapped him in the fine
+lin-en he had brought, and laid him in the tomb, and put a great stone
+at the door, and left him there.
+
+The chief priests went to Pi-late and said, It has come to our minds
+that Je-sus said that he would rise on the third day, so we pray thee to
+have men watch the tomb lest some of his friends come and steal him, and
+then go and say that he rose from the dead.
+
+Pi-late said, Ye have your own watch-men. Go and make it as sure as you
+can.
+
+So they went and put a seal of wax on the great tomb, and set men to
+watch by the tomb.
+
+But that night God sent down an an-gel, and he came and rolled back the
+stone from the door, and sat on it. His face shone like fire, and his
+robes were white as snow. And the watch-men shook for fear of him, and
+had no more strength than dead men.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX.
+
+JESUS LEAVES THE GRAVE.--APPEARS TO MARY.--STEPHEN STONED.--PAUL'S LIFE,
+AND DEATH.
+
+
+ON the first day of the week, as soon as it was light, three wo-men,
+friends of Je-sus, came to the tomb with the gums and spice they used to
+lay out their dead.
+
+And they said as they went, Who shall roll the stone a-way from the door
+of the tomb?
+
+And lo, when they came near they found that the great stone had been
+rolled a-way. And when they went in the tomb, they saw an an-gel clothed
+in a long white robe, and they shook with fear.
+
+He said to them, Have no fear. Ye seek Je-sus, who was put to death on
+the cross. He is not here, though this is the place where they laid him.
+Go tell his friends that he has ris-en from the dead, and bid them go to
+Gal-i-lee where they shall see him.
+
+Two of the wo-men from the tomb, with fear and yet with joy, ran to tell
+the good news.
+
+But Ma-ry Mag-da-le-ne stood out-side the tomb and wept. And as she
+stooped down and looked in the tomb, she saw two an-gels in white, the
+one at the head, the oth-er at the foot of the place where Je-sus had
+lain.
+
+And they said to her, Why dost thou weep? She said, Be-cause they have
+ta-ken my Lord a-way, and I know not where they have laid him. And when
+she had thus said, she drew back and saw that Je-sus stood near, yet
+knew not that it was he.
+
+Je-sus said to her, Ma-ry! She turned and said to him, Mas-ter!
+
+Je-sus said, Touch me not, for I have not yet gone up to my Fa-ther; but
+go tell the breth-ren what thou hast seen and heard.
+
+And Ma-ry told them that she had seen the Lord, and all that he had said
+to her.
+
+And Je-sus was seen two or three times on the earth af-ter his death,
+and he came and spoke to those who were to teach and preach as he had
+taught them. But Thom-as was not with the rest when the Lord came. And
+when they told him that they had seen the Lord, he said, I doubt it. But
+if I shall see in his hands the marks of the nails, and thrust my hand
+in the wound the spear made in his side, then shall I know that it is
+he.
+
+[Illustration: HE IS RIS-EN.]
+
+In eight days these friends met in a room to talk and pray. Thom-as was
+with them and the door was shut. Then came Je-sus and stood in their
+midst and said, Peace be un-to you. Then said he to Thom-as, Reach here
+and touch my hands, and put thy hand in my side, and doubt no more that
+I have ris-en from the dead.
+
+When Thom-as heard his voice and knew that it was Je-sus, he said, My
+Lord and my God. Je-sus said to him, Thom-as, be-cause thou hast seen
+me, thou hast faith in me; blest are they that have not seen me, and yet
+put their trust in me.
+
+At the end of five weeks he met with these friends at Je-ru-sa-lem. And
+when he had had a talk with them he led them out as far as Beth-a-ny.
+And he raised his hands and blest them, and as he stood thus he went up
+in a cloud out of their sight.
+
+When the day of Pen-te-cost, or har-vest feast, had come, Pe-ter, and
+the rest of those whom Je-sus had taught, were all in one place.
+
+And all at once there came the great rush of a strong wind that filled
+the room where they were. And tongues of fire came down on each one of
+them, and their hearts were filled with a strange pow-er, and they spoke
+all known tongues.
+
+And there were men there from all parts of the East, and when they heard
+these men of Gal-i-lee speak in their own tongues of the works of God,
+they were in a maze. And some said, These men are full of new wine.
+
+[Illustration: CHRIST AP-PEAR-ING TO MA-RY.]
+
+But Pe-ter stood up and said the men were not drunk, but that this
+strange gift of speech was one of the signs that God had told the Jews
+that he would send on the earth. And Pe-ter preached so well to the
+crowd that not a few left the ranks of sin and gave their hearts to
+Christ, and to good works.
+
+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 news. They gave
+alms to the poor, healed the sick, and did all the good that they could.
+
+One of them, named Ste-phen, stood up to preach and to tell the Jews
+what God had done for them, and to try to make them give up their sins.
+He spoke in plain words, and said, The Jews of old put to death those
+who were sent to tell them that Je-sus was to come; and now you have
+slain the Just One him-self.
+
+When the Jews heard this they were full of rage, and gnashed their teeth
+at him like wild beasts. But he raised his eyes to the sky, and saw a
+great light there. And he said, I see Je-sus on the right hand of God.
+
+Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears so that
+they could not hear his words; and they brought him out of the town, and
+stoned him.
+
+[Illustration: THE AS-CEN-SION TO HEAV-EN.]
+
+And Ste-phen knelt down, and asked God to for-give them for this sin.
+And then he died.
+
+The men who threw the stones at Ste-phen took off their cloaks, that
+they might have the free use of their arms, and laid them at the feet of
+a young man named Saul.
+
+[Illustration: HOU-SES ON THE WALLS OF DA-MAS-CUS.]
+
+Now Saul had done much harm to the good cause, and was in a great rage
+with those who were friends of Je-sus and taught his truths. So he went
+to the high priest at Je-ru-sa-lem and asked to be sent to Da-mas-cus,
+that if he found friends of Je-sus there he might bind them with cords
+and bring them back to Je-ru-sa-lem. And the high priest gave him
+notes to those who had charge of the church-es in Da-mas-cus, and he set
+out for that place. But when he came near the town there shone round him
+a great light, and he was in such fear that he fell to the ground. And a
+voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why dost thou hate me and hunt me down?
+
+[Illustration: THE COM-ING OF THE HO-LY GHOST.]
+
+Saul said, Who art thou, Lord? The voice said, I am Je-sus, whom thou
+dost use so ill.
+
+Then Saul shook with fear and said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?
+The Lord said, Rise, and go in-to the town, and it shall be shown thee
+what thou must do. And the men who were with him stood dazed and dumb,
+for they heard the voice, but could see no man.
+
+When Saul rose from the earth he could not see, for the light had made
+him blind; and those who were with him led him by the hand in-to
+Da-mas-cus. And for three days he had no sight; and he could not eat nor
+drink.
+
+But God sent An-a-ni-as, a good man, to touch his eyes, and his sight
+and his strength came back. And his heart was changed, and there was no
+man who could preach as Paul did, by which name he was now known.
+
+For a while he went with Bar-na-bas. Then he took Si-las with him, and
+they made both friends and foes. The Jews at Phil-ip-pi found fault
+with them, beat them and put them in jail, and bade the jail-er keep
+them safe. So he made their feet fast in the stocks--which were great
+blocks of wood with holes in them.
+
+At mid-night Paul and Si-las prayed, and those in the jail heard them.
+Then all at once there came a great earth-quake which shook the jail,
+and the doors flew o-pen, and the chains fell from those who were bound.
+The jail-er woke from his sleep, and when he saw that not a door was
+shut, he feared he would be put to death if those in the jail had fled.
+So he drew his sword to kill him-self. But Paul cried to him with a loud
+voice, Do thy-self no harm, for we are all here.
+
+[Illustration: THE CON-VER-SION OF ST. PAUL.]
+
+Then the jail-er brought a light, and came to the cell where Paul and
+Si-las were, and he knelt there, and cried out, Sirs, what must I do to
+be saved? And they said, Have faith in the Lord Je-sus Christ, and thou
+shalt be saved.
+
+That same hour of the night the jail-er took Paul and Si-las and washed
+their wounds, and brought them food, and his heart was full of joy, for
+he and all in his house were made Chris-tians, and God would for-give
+their past sins.
+
+The next morn the chief men at Phil-ip-pi sent word to the jail-er to
+let those men go, for the Jews found they had no right to beat Paul. And
+they feared the law, and begged him to leave the town.
+
+Paul went to A-thens, the chief town of Greece, which was full of false
+gods, to whom al-tars had been built. But there was one al-tar on which
+were the words, TO THE UN-KNOWN GOD.
+
+Those who built it felt that there was one God of whom they had not been
+taught, and this al-tar was for him.
+
+Paul taught in A-thens, both in-doors and out-doors. And when the wise
+men heard that he told of Je-sus, and that we were all to rise from the
+dead, they brought him to Mars' Hill, where the chief court was held.
+And they said to him, Tell us now what the good news is. For thou dost
+speak strange words, and we would like to know what they mean.
+
+Paul told them there was but one true God, and they must serve him and
+give up their sins, and put their trust in Je-sus, and they would all be
+saved at the last day.
+
+Then Paul went to Co-rinth, where he spent some time. At the end of some
+years he came back to Je-ru-sa-lem. And the Lord's friends met him, and
+were glad to see his face once more. And he told them where he had been,
+and how God had helped him.
+
+[Illustration: ST. PAUL LEAV-ING TYRE.]
+
+And Paul went up to the church. And while he was there some Jews from
+A-si-a saw him and took hold of him, and cried out, Men of Is-ra-el,
+help us. This is the man who has taught that we were not to do as
+Mo-ses told us, nor to come here to pay our vows. And he has brought
+with him Gen-tiles whom it is a crime to let come in-to our church.
+
+Soon all the town was in an up-roar, and Paul was brought in-to the
+church, and the gates that led to the courts were all shut. As they were
+a-bout to kill him, some one went and told the chief who had charge of a
+band of Ro-man troops, and dwelt near the great church to guard it. And
+he and some of his men ran down in the midst of the crowd, who, as soon
+as they saw them, ceased to beat Paul.
+
+The chief took Paul from them, and had him bound with chains, and asked
+who he was and what he had done. Some cried this, and some that, and no
+one could tell just what they said.
+
+And the chief led him off to his own house, to save Paul's life, and the
+mob brought up the rear, and cried out, A-way with him! Kill him! The
+next day the chief let Paul go, and sent him to Fe-lix, who ruled in
+Ju-de-a. And here he was shut up in jail, and was there for two years or
+more. He told them who he was, and why he had gone to Je-ru-sa-lem, and
+said he had done no wrong that he knew of; though some might say it was
+wrong for him to preach that the dead should rise from their graves at
+the last day.
+
+[Illustration: ST. PAUL PREACH-ING AT A-THENS.]
+
+Fe-lix sent the Jews off, and bade the jail-er let Paul walk in and
+out as he chose, and see all the friends who might call. He was there
+for two years, and at the end of that time Fes-tus took Fe-lix's place.
+
+At last he was sent to Rome to be tried be-fore the Ce-sar. While on the
+sea a fierce wind sprang up, and beat the ship so that the men could not
+steer. And they were in great fear lest they should drown. But Paul told
+them not to fear, for though the ship might be a wreck there would be no
+loss of life. At the end of two weeks the ship struck the isle of
+Mal-ta, and the men swam to the shore on bits of boards.
+
+[Illustration: ST. PAUL'S SHIP-WRECK.]
+
+[Illustration: MEET-ING PLACE IN A-THENS.]
+
+Paul staid here for three months, and then went to Rome, where he dwelt
+for two years or more, and taught men to trust in the Lord and to do
+right.
+
+We are not told when or how he died.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XX.
+
+WHAT JOHN SAW WHILE ON THE ISLE OF PATMOS.--THE GREAT WHITE THRONE.--THE
+LAND OF LIGHT.
+
+
+JOHN wrote the last book in the New Tes-ta-ment. It is called
+Rev-e-la-tion; and that means that it tells what no one else but John
+knew.
+
+John was sent to the lone isle of Pat-mos by one of the bad Em-pe-rors
+of Rome, who would not let him preach or teach the truths that Christ
+taught.
+
+While he was at Pat-mos Je-sus came to him in a dream, and showed him
+all the things that he wrote of in this book.
+
+John says: I heard a great voice like a trum-pet, and as I turned to see
+who it was that spoke to me, I saw Je-sus clothed in a robe that fell to
+his feet, and was held at the waist by a belt of gold. And when I saw
+him I fell at his feet like one dead. And he laid his right hand on me,
+and said, Fear not; I am he who died on the cross, but who now lives to
+die no more.
+
+[Illustration: PAT-MOS.]
+
+Je-sus told John to write down all that he saw, and to send it to the
+church-es for which it was meant.
+
+Then John saw a door o-pen in the sky, and a voice said to him, Come up
+here, and I will show thee what will take place in the time to come. And
+he heard the an-gels sing songs of praise to Je-sus, whom they called
+the Lamb that was slain. 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 world. And he was shown, too, how the Lord would save them
+from their foes, so that at last no one could hurt or harm them.
+
+Then John saw a great white throne in heav-en, and Je-sus sat on it. And
+the dead rose from their graves, and came and stood near the throne to
+be judged. All the things that they had done while on the earth were put
+down in the books out of which they were judged. And if their names were
+not in the Book of Life they were cast in-to the lake of fire.
+
+When this great day was past, John saw new skies and a new earth, for
+the old earth and skies had been burnt up, And he saw the New
+Je-ru-sa-lem come down from the skies, and heard a voice say that God
+would come and live with men.
+
+Round the New Je-ru-sa-lem, which was built of gold, was a high wall
+with twelve gates, three on each side. At each gate was an an-gel to
+guard it. In the walls were all kinds of rich and rare gems, and its
+twelve gates were made of pearls.
+
+There was no need of the sun or the moon, for God was there and Je-sus,
+and they made it light. And those whom Je-sus had saved--Jews and
+Gen-tiles, rich and poor--were to come and live in it. And the gates
+should not be shut, for there will be no night there. And none but those
+whose names are in the Book of Life shall go in-to it.
+
+[Illustration: ST. JOHN'S VIS-ION.]
+
+And John saw a pure riv-er called the wa-ter of life. On each side of it
+grew the tree of life that bore twelve kinds of fruit, which were ripe
+each month. And those who dwell in that land of light, and eat the
+fruits of the tree of life, and drink of the wa-ter of life, shall see
+the Lord's face and be with him and serve him.
+
+He will wipe all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more
+death, nor grief, nor pain.
+
+Je-sus said to John, Blest are they who keep God's laws and do his will,
+that they may pass through the gates to his bright home on high.
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+Routledge's Historical Course.
+
+
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+
+  HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES,        BY MRS. HELEN W. PIERSON.
+
+  HISTORY OF ENGLAND,                  BY MRS. HELEN W. PIERSON.
+
+  HISTORY OF FRANCE,                   BY MRS. HELEN W. PIERSON.
+
+  HISTORY OF GERMANY,                  BY MRS. HELEN W. PIERSON.
+
+  HISTORY OF IRELAND,                  BY MISS AGNES SADLIER.
+
+  HISTORY OF RUSSIA,                   BY MISS HELEN AINSLIE SMITH.
+
+  HISTORY OF JAPAN,                    BY MISS HELEN AINSLIE SMITH.
+
+  HISTORY OF THE BATTLES OF AMERICA,   BY MISS JOSEPHINE POLLARD.
+
+  LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED
+      STATES,                          BY MRS. HELEN W. PIERSON.
+
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+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+As the reader will have noted, words that are more than one syllable are
+hyphenated. Frequently the printer made an mistake and forgot to
+hyphenate all or part of a word. This has been corrected where found.
+
+Obvious punctuation errors have been repaired. Some times high priest
+was hyphenated and sometimes it was two words. This was retained.
+
+Page 78, "Ja-cob" changed to "Jo-seph" (And Jo-seph went to Do-than)
+
+Page 100, "se" changed to "sent" (food that God had sent)
+
+Page 109, "the the" changed to "the" (do the king's will)
+
+Page 164, "plead" changed to "pled" (Da-vid pled so hard)
+
+Page 178, "wo-men" changed to "wo-man" (I and this wo-man live in)
+
+Page 342, "Ce-ser" changed to "Ce-sar" (please the Ce-sar of Rome)
+
+
+
+
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