{"1": {"fulltext": "II^ 1\\n3\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Zy \u00c2\u00a3r~", "height": "3419", "width": "2489", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2964", "width": "2118", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "r V", "height": "2964", "width": "2118", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3035", "width": "2110", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3035", "width": "2110", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3074", "width": "1960", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3271", "width": "2237", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3161", "width": "1999", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3161", "width": "1999", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "THE QUEEN OF SHEBA VISITING SOEOMON", "height": "3243", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THE BRINGING UP OF THE ARK", "height": "3229", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0013.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0014.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CHRIST BLESSING LITTLE CHILDREN", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPAGE;\\nTHE CREATION AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN 17\\nTHE MURDER OF ABEL 24\\nNOAH AND THE FLOOD 27\\nTHE TOWER OF BABEL 32,\\nABRAHAM AND LOT 33\\nISAAC AND REBEKAH 44\\nJACOB AND ESAU 47\\nJOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN 67\\nMOSES IN EGYPT 82\\nTHE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS 105\\nRAHAB AND THE SPIES 143\\nTHE ISRAELITES PASS OVER JORDAN 146\\nSTORY OF THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL 151\\nRUTH AND NAOMI 168\\nSAMUEL AND ELI 172\\nSAMUEL AND SAUL 180\\nTHE STORY OF DAVID 187\\nKING SOLOMON 207\\nTHE STORY OF ELIJAH 222\\nTHE STORY OF ELISHA 233\\nTHE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS 252\\nTHE CAPTIVITY 269\\nTHE STORY OF JOB 285\\nTHE BABE OF BETHLEHEM 293\\nJESUS BEGINS HIS WORK 305\\nJESUS IN GALILEE 314\\nTHE STORM ON THE LAKE 321\\nSAMARITAN STORIES 333\\nLAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM 344\\nTHE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION 350\\nTHE STORY OF THE APOSTLES 370\\n5", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "BEAUTIFUL\\nBible Stories\\nCONTAINING\\nCaptivatinq Narratives\\nOF THE\\nMOST STRIKING SCENES AND EVENTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT;\\nLIVES OF THE PROPHETS, KINGS AND HEROES\\nOF THE BIBLE, ETC.\\nINCLUDING THE\\nStory of Christ and His Apostles\\nDESIGNED TO PROMOTE\\nA GREATER INTEREST IN THE BIBLE AMONG PERSONS OF ALL\\nAGES, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG\\nBY\\nGRANDPA REUBEN PRESCOTT\\nTHE WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR\\nProfusely Embellished with 5uperb Phototype\\nand Wood Engravings\\nNATIONAL PUBLISHING CO.\\n239, 241 AND 243 AMERICAN STREET\\nPHILADELPHIA, PA.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES RECKXVKD,\\nLibrary cf Cctigret%\\nAp Office of the\\n/?0 ,pam 4 ipnn\\nRcgliUr of Copyright*\\n51090\\nFntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1899, by\\nJ. R. JONES\\nTn the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.\\nAll Rights Reserved\\nSECOND COPY,", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "1*-\\nPREFACE.\\n]3 RIGHT eyes and listening ears always greet the narration of the\\n1 3 beautiful stories of the Bible to the young. To all such this\\nvolume is especially adapted, the narrative portions of the Bible\\nbeing faithfully reproduced in language simple and captivating.\\nThe work begins with the story of the Creation, tells all about\\nAdam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and the tragic death of Abel. It:\\ndescribes the Flood, the Ark tossed on the world of waters and Noah send-\\ning forth the dove, and soon comes to the Tower of Babel and the Confu-\\nsion of Tongues. The story of Abraham is fully related, together with\\nthat of the sacrifice of Isaac, the ram caught in the thicket, and the saving\\nof the lad who comes into the romantic story of Rebekah. It describes\\nJacob and his beautiful dream, and tells of his troubles with Esau.\\nIt narrates the history of Joseph and his brethren, and traces his\\nwonderful career in Egypt. His sterling integrity is seen, his sudden rise\\nto power, his shining virtues as a ruler, his deliverance of the people from\\nfamine, his tender regard for his brethren and affection for his father.\\nWas there ever a young person, or old person as to that matter,\\nwho was not charmed with the picture the Bible gives us of Moses in his\\nlittle life-boat, his remarkable experience at the burning bush, his shining\\nface as he comes down from stormy Sinai, and his stern reproof of Israel s\\nsins and follies\\nThen the waters of the Jordan divide, and the great leader, Joshua,\\nand his host pass into the Land of Promise. In the history of the Judges\\nwe see Gideon and his marvellous fleece, and Jephtha making his rash vow.\\nSamson slays the king of beasts, is overcome by a designing woman, grinds\\nlike a slave in the treadmill, carries off the gates of Gaza and shakes down,\\nthe massive pillars of the Philistines temple.\\nThe story of young Samuel, who grew to be a prophet, recounts the\\nglowing deeds of another Old Testament hero. He was a good child from\\ninfancy, and having started right, he became a great and good man. His\\ncareer shows that the teachings of wise parents are remembered, and mould\\nthe characters of the young. Then we have the delightful history of Ruth,\\nthe gleaner in the fields of Boaz, who met with such good fortune and was\\nrewarded for honest industry.\\n3", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "4 PREFACE.\\nVery interesting to the young people are the Bible stories about the\\nold Hebrew kings and prophets. They tell all about that wonderful man\\nKing Saul, who was so jealous of David that he threw the javelin at him\\nand tried to kill him. Next we hear about the exploits of David, the ruddy\\nshepherd boy, whose marvellous sling carried swift death to the boastful\\ngiant, Goliath. Then comes Solomon in all his glory, who built that most\\nfamous of all edifices, the renowned Temple at Jerusalem.\\nThen, with the swiftness of the whirlwind, the Prophet Elijah appears\\nThe A-oung people behold one of the most striking figures in history. They\\nfollow this mysterious prophet to the brook Cherith, and the poor widow s\\nhome at Sarepta, and behold the chariot of flame which bears him through\\nthe open heaven beyond mortal sight. They see the sweet face of the little\\nJewish captive in Syria, who sent Naaman to the prophet Elisha that he\\nmight be healed of his leprosy. This wonderful part of the history of\\nGod s chosen people sounds fresh and new from the pages of this delight-\\nful and very instructive volume. There are also many tragic stories con-\\nnected with the later kings among the Hebrews. These make a deep\\nimpression upon the youthful heart, and teach the most important lessons.\\nThe Babe of Bethlehem now appears upon the scene, and his capti-\\nvating story is no less interesting than the incidents and events already\\nrelated. We hear the angels singing we see the adoring shepherds we\\nare present at the visit of the wise men and we step into the Temple\\nwhere Jesus disputes with the Jewish doctors. We listen to his wonderful\\nparables, behold his amazing miracles, his awe-inspiring Crucifixion and\\ntriumphant Ascension. The Story of the Apostles completes this most cap-\\ntivating volume, the beauty and charm of which are apparent on every page.\\nThis is such a volume as all parents should put into the hands of\\ntheir children. Youth is the forming period of the whole life it is the\\nwax in the mould, and impressions then made are not easily effaced. This\\ndelightful work renders the Bible a new book, full of the grandest thoughts,\\nthe most inspiring truths, the noblest examples, and those beautiful moral\\nprecepts wh ch lie at the foundation of all success in life.\\nThe question how to interest the young in the Bible is solved, for\\nthey find such attractions in this volume that they read it eagerly. It is\\nnot a work to be glanced at and then thrown aside but it is a companion\\nin the home, and is found to contain fresh charms every time it is perused.", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nPAGE\\nADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN 18\\nTHE TEMPTATION IN THE GARDEN 21\\nADAM AND EVE DRIVEN FROM PARADISE 23\\nTHE MURDER OF ABEL 25\\nNOAH AND HIS FAMILY ENTERING THE ARK 28\\nTHE FLOOD DESTROYING THE EARTH 29\\nNOAH OFFERING SACRIFICE 30\\nTHE TOWER OF BABEL 32\\nABRAHAM DEPARTING FROM HARAN 34\\nTHE SEPARATION OF ABRAM AND LOT 35\\nMELCHIZEDEK SETTING BREAD AND WINE BEFORE ABRAHAM AND LOT 37\\nABRAHAM ENTERTAINING THE THREE ANGELS 39\\nTHE ANGELS WARNING LOT TO FLEE FROM SODOM 40\\nABRAHAM OFFERING UP ISAAC 41\\nABRAHAM SENDING AWAY HAGAR AND ISHMAEL 42\\nABIMELECH RESTORING SARAH TO ABRAHAM 43\\nABRAHAM S SERVANT AND REBEKAH AT THE WELL 44\\nREBEKAH RECEIVING PRESENTS FROM ABRAHAM S SERVANT 45\\nESAU SELLING HIS BIRTHRIGHT FOR POTTAGE 48\\nTACOB OBTAINING THE BLESSING FROM ISAAC 53\\nJACOB S VISION OF THE ANGELS 55\\nJACOB AT THE WELL OF HARAN 57\\nLABAN OVERTAKING JACOB 60\\nJACOB WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL 62\\nMEETING OF JACOB AND ESAU 64\\nMASSACRE OF THE SHECHEMITES 65\\nJOSEPH SOLD BY HIS BRETHREN 70\\nJOSEPH INTERPRETING PHARAOH S DREAMS 74\\nJACOB S SONS IMPRISONED BY JOSEPH AS SPIES 78\\nJOSEPH BECOMING KNOWN TO HIS BRETHREN 80\\nJACOB BLESSING THE SONS OF JOSEPH 81\\nTHE FINDING OF MOSES 84\\n7", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "8 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.\\npag a\\nMOSES DEFENDING THE DAUGHTERS OF JETHRO 86\\nMOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH 87\\nTHE ROD OF AARON CHANGED INTO A SERPENT 89\\nTHE WATERS OF EGYPT CHANGED TO BLOOD 90\\nTHE PLAGUE OF FROGS 91\\nTHE PLAGUE OF LICE 93\\nTHE PLAGUE OF FLIES 94\\nTHE PLAGUE OF MURRAIN 95\\nTHE PLAGUE OF BOILS AND BLAINS 96\\nTHE PLAGUE OF HAIL 97\\nTHE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS 98\\nDEATH OF THE FIRST-BORN OF EGYPT 100\\nTHE FIRST PASSOVER 101\\nTHE ISRAELITES DEPARTING FROM EGYPT 102\\nPHARAOH S HOST OVERWHELMED IN THE SEA 103\\nTHE ISRAELITES GATHERING MANNA 106\\nVICTORY OF THE ISRAELITES OVER AMALEK 108\\nWORSHIPPING THE GOLDEN CALF Ill\\nMOSES AND THE TABLES OF THE LAW 113\\nTHE LAYER OF BRASS 114\\nTHE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK 116\\nTHE CONSECRATION OF AARON 117\\nAARON OFFERING SACRIFICES 119\\nTHE FEAST OF TABERNACLES 129\\nTHE SONS OF AARON CONSUMED BY FIRE 121\\nTHE SCAPE-GOAT 123\\nRETURN OF THE SPIES FROM CANAAN 125\\nPUNISHMENT OF THE SABBATH-BREAKER 127\\nTHE BUDDING OF AARON S ROD 129\\nMOSES SMITING THE ROCK 130\\nTHE DEATH OF AARON 131\\nTHE BRAZEN SERPENT 132\\nBALAAM MEETING THE ANGEL 135\\nTHE DEATH OF MOSES 137\\nOFFERINGS FOR THE PURIFICATION OF WOMEN 138\\nPURIFICATION FOR LEPROSY 139\\nSENDING THE LEPER OUTSIDE THE CAMP 149\\nTHE JEALOUSY OFFERING 1 tl\\nESCAPE OF THE SPIES H4", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "EASTER MORNING MARY AND THE RISEN LORD", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 9\\nPAGE\\nRAHAB SAVED AND ALL HER POSSESSIONS 145\\nTHE ARK PASSING OVER JORDAN 147\\nTHE ANGEL APPEARING TO JOSHUA 148\\nTHE DESTRUCTION OF JERICHO 149\\nJOSHUA COMMANDING THE SUN TO STAND STILL 150\\nSISERA SLAIN BY JAEL 152\\nCALEB GIVING HIS DAUGHTER TO OTHNIEL 153\\nGIDEON OFFERING SACRIFICE 154\\nGIDEON AND HIS FLEECE 155\\nGIDEON AND HIS LITTLE ARMY 156\\nGIDEON DEFEATING THE MIDIANITES 157\\nJEPHTHAH MEETING HIS DAUGHTER J. 159\\nMANOAH OFFERING SACRIFICE 160\\nSAMSON SLAYING A LION 161\\nSAMSON SLAYING THE PHILISTINES 163\\nCUTTING OFF SAMSON S LOCKS 165\\nSAMSON DESTROYING THE TEMPLE 166\\nBENJAMITES TAKING WIVES FROM SHILOH 167\\nNAOMI RETURNING TO BETHLEHEM 169\\nRUTH GLEANING IN THE FIELD OF BOAZ 170\\nBOAZ BUYING THE PARCEL OF LAND 171\\nHANNAH BRINGING SAMUEL TO ELI 173\\nTHE PHILISTINES TAKING AWAY THE ARK 176\\nTHE DEATH OF ELI 177\\nDESTRUCTION OF THE IDOL OF DAGON 178\\nSAUL ANOINTED BY SAMUEL 182\\nJONATHAN SMITING THE PHILISTINES 183\\nTHE LOT FALLS UPON JONATHAN 185\\nTHE DEATH OF AGAG 186\\nGOLIATH SLAIN BY DAVID 189\\nSAUL ATTEMPTING TO KILL DAVID 190\\nABIGAIL BRINGING PRESENTS TO DAVID 191\\nSAUL AND THE WITCH OF ENDOR 193\\nABNER SLAIN BY JOAB 195\\nISH-BOSHETH SLAIN BY HIS SERVANTS 196\\nDAVID DANCING BEFORE THE ARK 198\\nNATHAN REPROVING DAVID FOR HIS SIN 199\\nABSALOM CAUSES AMNON TO BE SLAIN 201\\nDAVID STONED BY SHIMEI 203", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "10 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nPAGE\\nTHE DEATH OF ABSALOM 204\\nCESSATION OF THE PLAGUE 206\\nSOLOMON ASKS WISDOM FROM GOD 208\\nTHE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON 209\\nTHE QUEEN OF SHEBA VISITING SOLOMON 212\\nIDOLATRY OF SOLOMON AND HIS WIVES 214\\nREHOBOAM REFUSING TO REMIT TAXES 215\\nDESTRUCTION OF THE ALTAR FORETOLD 217\\nTHE PROPHET SLAIN BY A LION 219\\nHANANI IMPRISONED FOR REBUKING ASA 221\\nELIJAH S PROPHECY AGAINST AHAB 222\\nAHAB ACCUSED OF NABOTH S DEATH 224\\nJEZEBEL EATEN BY DOGS 225\\nMICAIAH PROPHESYING AGAINST AHAB 227\\nJEHOSHAPHAT S PRAYER FOR HIS PEOPLE 229\\nJEHOSHAPHAT S VICTORY 231\\nTHE TRANSLATION OF ELIJAH 232\\nELISHA MULTIPLYING THE POOR WIDOW S OIL 234\\nELISHA RESTORING THE SHUNAMMITE S CHILD 236\\nNAAMAN CURED OF HIS LEPROSY 238\\nTHE SYRIANS SMITTEN WITH BLINDNESS 240\\nTHE UNBELIEVER TRODDEN TO DEATH 242\\nJEHU ANOINTED KING OF ISRAEL 243\\nATHALIAH PUT TO DEATH 246\\nJOASH COLLECTING MONEY FOR THE TEMPLE 247\\nREPAIRING THE TEMPLE 248\\nELISHA S BODY RESTORING A MAN TO LIFE 250\\nTHE MURDER OF ZECHARIAH 251\\nUZZIAH SMITTEN WITH LEPROSY 253\\nODED INTERCEDING FOR THE CAPTIVES 255\\nIDOLS DESTROYED BY HEZEKIAH 256\\nAN ANGEL DESTROYS SENNACHERIB S HOST 259\\nISAIAH PROPHESYING HEZEKIAH S RECOVERY 261\\nCAPTIVITY AND REPENTANCE OF MANASSEH 264\\nJOSIAH CONSULTS THE PROPHETESS HULDAH 266\\nDEATH OF KING JOSIAH 268\\nDANIEL S ACCUSERS THROWN TO THE LIONS 270\\nTHE JEWS PREPARING TO RETURN 272\\nEZRA OBTAINING HIS COMMISSION 273", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0030.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 21-\\nMSB\\nTHE HEATHEN WIVES SENT AWAY 275\\nNEHEMIAH INSPECTING THE RUINS 277\\nREBUILDING THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM 279-\\nBRINGING FORTH THE LAW 281\\nTHE READING OF THE LAW 282\\nNEHEMIAH PUNISHING EVIL-DOERS 284\\nDESTRUCTION OF THE FLOCKS OF JOB 287\\nTHE HAPPY DAYS OF JOB 290\\nTHE HOLY FAMILY 294\\nCHRISTMAS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 THE SHEPHERDS AND THE MANGER 296\\nTHE CHILD JESUS IN EGYPT 2:8\\nNAZARETH 302\\nHISTORIC PLACES NEAR JERUSALEM 306\\nA STREET SCENE IN JERUSALEM 312\\nJESUS AND THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA 316\\nTHE SERMON ON THE MOUNT 319\\nCHRIST AT GADARA 322\\nLET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER 826\\nCHRIST SAVES PETER FROM SINKING 33C\\nI AM THE BREAD OF LIFE .331\\nFROM JAFFA TO JERUSALEM BY RAILROAD 334\\nJESUS AND THE SISTERS OF BETHANY 337\\nTHE SHEPHERD\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I SHALL NOT WANT 339\\nLAZARUS, COME FORTH 341\\nCHRIST BLESSING LITTLE CHILDREN 343\\nCHRIST ENTERING INTO JERUSALEM 345.\\nTHE WIDOW GIVING HER MITES 347\\nSIR, WE WOULD SEE JESUS 34S\\nCHRIST WASHING HIS DISCIPLES FEET 349\\nCHRIST IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE 1\\nTHE TAKING OF CHRIST 352\\nCHRIST BEFORE PILATE 356\\nJUDAS WENT OUT AND HANGED HIMSELF 359\\nCHRIST LEAVING FOR GOLGOTHA 360\\nTHE WOMEN AT THE CROSS 364\\nWHILE THEY COMMUNED TOGETHER JESUS HIMSELF DREW NEAR 367\\nCHRIST S ASCENSION 363\\nANANIAS RESTORING PAUL S SIGHT 38S\\nPAUL AND THE PHILIPPIAN JAILOR ,.395", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0031.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "12 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nPAGE\\nPAUL TAKING LEAVE OF THE ELDERS OF EPHESUS 401\\nPAUL IN PRISON 403\\nPAUL BEFORE FELIX AND DRUSILLA 406\\nPAUL SHIPWRECKED 409\\nPAUL KEEPS THE SAILORS ON BOARD THE SHIP 411\\nFULL PAGE PHOTOTYPE ENGRAVINGS IN COLORS.\\nJOSEPH CAST INTO THE PIT\\nTHE FINDING OF MOSES\\nTHE BRINGING UP OF THE ARK\\nTHE QUEEN OF SHEBA VISITING SOLOMON\\nVISIT OF THE WISE MEN\\nCHRIST IN THE TEMPLE DISPUTING WITH THE DOCTORS\\nCHRIST BLESSING LITTLE CHILDREN\\nEASTER MORNING\u00e2\u0080\u0094 MARY AND THE RISEN LORD\\nFULL PAGE PHOTOTYPE ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nISAAC WELCOMING REBEKAH\\nJACOB S VISION OF THE ANGELS\\nJACOB MOURNING THE LOSS OF JOSEPH\\nJACOB MEETING JOSEPH IN EGYPT\\nMIRIAM THE PROPHETESS\\nMOSES BRINGING WATER FROM THE ROCK\\nRUTH GLEANING IN THE FIELDS OF BOAZ\\nTHE SCRIBES READING THE CHRONICLES TO AHASUERUS\\nCHRIST AND HIS MOTHER RETURNING FROM JERUSALEM\\nCHRIST RAISING THE SON OF THE WIDOW OF NAIN\\nTHE PARABLE OF THE LILIES\\nCHRIST BLESSING LITTLE CHILDREN\\nMINISTERING TO CHRIST S AGONY\\nJUDAS BETRAYING CHRIST WITH A KISS\\nCHRIST HAS RISEN\\nDORCAS GIVING ALMS\\no", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0032.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE CREATION\\nAND\\nTHE GARDEN OF EDEN.\\nONCE there was no world such as we see now with its lakes and\\noceans, its mountains and valleys, its cities and villages, its men,\\nwomen and children. The first words of the Bible are In the\\nbeginning God created the heaven and the earth; so we see that the earth\\nwe live on and the heaven, with the sun, the moon, and the millions of\\nstars, were all created by God, who made also all the animals, from the\\nsmallest insect to the large lion and elephant, the birds which are so beau-\\ntiful in their colors, and the fishes which live in the sea.\\nThe history of the creation is given in the first book of the Bible,\\nGenesis, which means, in Greek, the beginning. In this history we\\nmay read how God made the earth and sea, the sun and moon, and the\\nfirst man and woman, Adam and Eve, who were placed in the garden of\\nEden, but who, disobeying the commands of God, and so bringing sin into\\nthe world, were punished by being driven out of the garden, and made to\\nearn their bread by hard labor, their sorrow being made greater by the\\nwickedness of their son Cain.\\nIt was more than six thousand years ago that God created the earth,\\nand at first it was .without regular form; earth and water were mingled;\\nnothing grew on the surface; there were no trees or flowers, and no living\\ncreatures. All was darkness there was neither night nor day, neither\\nsummer nor winter no firm land, no sea, no stars or moon, no sound to\\nbreak the silence.\\nThen the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and\\nthe power of God was felt. He can do all things that seem good to him,\\nand he made light to appear. The fourth verse of the first chapter of\\nGenesis says, God saw the light that it was good. And what a change\\n2 17", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0033.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "18\\nTHE CREATION AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN.\\nit must have made! The sun and moon were not made at first, but there\\nwas a bright light which shone for a time, and then again came darkness,\\nfor God divided the light from the darkness, calling the light day, and\\nthe darkness night. And that great act of God s power marked the first\\nof the six days of creation.\\nWhen that first night\\nhad passed away, and there\\nwas again light on the face\\nof the earth, God made the\\nfirmament, that is the\\nheaven, the word meaning;\\nfixed and immovable, and\\ndivided the waters which\\nwere above, the moist clouds,\\nfrom the waters which were\\nbelow. So there was a sky\\nabove with the many forms\\nand colors of passing clouds\\non the clear blue. What a\\nwonderful change in the ap-\\npearance of the world must\\nhave taken place but as\\nyet there were no living\\nbeings to see and admire\\nor to worship the Creator.\\nThen night came again,\\nand the work of the second\\nday of creation was done.\\nBut there was much\\nmore to be done before the\\nwork of creation was com-\\nADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN. pleted There was nQW\\nday and night, but there was no separation of land from water.\\nOn the third day, the vapors and mists having been lifted up on\\nhigh, the waters were collected together, and the great seas were formed,\\ninto which flowed rivers, rising from springs which joined their waters, and\\nso made wide and flowing streams. As the waters were thus collected", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0034.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE CREATION AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 19\\ntogether, the earth was left dry. Mountains and hills, the tops of which\\nwere almost hidden in the clouds, appeared, and rocks against which beat\\nthe great waves of the newly-created sea. But the hills and valleys were\\nbare no grass or flowering plants were there, no forests, none of the\\nbeautiful blossoms which now we see.\\nThen God completed the work he had begun. The same power\\nwhich made the waves of the sea, which made the rivers flow through the\\nvalleys, and the earth to stand dry in the midst of the waters, bade grass\\nto grow, flowers to bloom, sweet fruit to ripen, and lofty trees to cover the\\nhills and make the valleys green. In three days the earth, which was at\\nfirst dark and without form and void, had been shone upon by a great\\nlight the sky had been created, seas and rivers made, grass grown, herbs\\nhad appeared and cast seed upon the ground for new growths, and fruit,\\nwhose seed was in itself stone fruit and fruit of the apple and orange\\nkind was there. What a change and a change which God, who made\\nit- saw was good. And with that instance of Divine power and wisdom\\nthe third day s work was ended.\\nOn the fourth day the sun and moon were created, two great\\nlights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the\\nnight. The stars, also, were made to give light upon the earth. If we\\nread this story of the fourth day s work carefully, as we should do, we\\nshall notice that these great lights were not only to give light to the\\nearth, but to prepare it for a new creation. The light of the first day was\\ndivided from the darkness, and when night came there was no light but\\nnow there was a lesser light of the moon and the stars to shine, so that\\nthe night was not quite dark.\\nAnd God showed that there were to be other uses for these greater\\nand lesser lights, which there would not have been if he had not made\\nliving creatures on the earth. The lights in the heavens were to be for\\nsigns and for seasons, and for days and for years that is, they were to\\nbe at all times signs of his power; their changes were to make seasons\\nspring, summer, autumn and winter each to be a blessing; and the rising\\nand setting of the sun, the changes of the moon and the return of the\\nseasons would enable an account of time to be kept were, as the Bible\\ntells us, in the Book of Genesis, for days and for years.\\nThe fifth day was a very wonderful day. Sun and moon and stars\\nhad been made, the waters had been divided from the land, and on the", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0035.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "20 THE CREATION AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN.\\nlaud were grass and trees and fruit. Now the time had come for the crea-\\ntion of animal life fishes were in the rivers, and birds flew about in the\\nair; great whales swam in the ocean, and God bade the numbers of all\\nthat were in the sea to increase, and fill the waters in the seas, and let\\nfowl multiply on the earth. That was the fifth day s work, but as yet\\nthere were no animals on the land the sea and the air were full of living\\ncreatures, some very large, and some very small, but the earth had none.\\nBut on the next, the sixth day, God made animals to live on the\\ndrv land all those large creatures which are so wonderful the cattle\\nwhich feed in the fields, and many small animals and insects described in\\nthe Bible as everything that creepeth upon the earth.\\nThen God said, Let us make man in our image, after our like-\\nness, and created Adam, more perfect than anything which had been\\nmade before, and having what none of the beasts of the fields or creeping\\nthings had the gift of reason for God breathed into him the breath of\\nlife and he became a living soul. Man was fitted to rule over all that\\nhad been made, and God gave him power over all, and brought them to\\nhim and he named the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air.\\nAlthough there were so many animals of every kind, Adam him-\\nself had no companion, but God completed the work, and made the\\nfirst woman, Hve, to be a helpmeet that is, a wife to be always with\\nhim, to love him, and be loved better than anything else in the world.\\nThen God blessed them, and saw everything that he had made, and\\nbehold it was very good. What a world that must have been when the\\nall-wise God could say it was very good There was no sin, no pain,\\nnothing but peace and happy creatures.\\nSo ended the six days of creation and then God, who had made such\\na beautiful world, rested on the next, the seventh day, and blessed it, and\\nit has been blessed ever since, a day of rest and worship, when the weary\\nfind rest, and good men throughout the world praise and worship the God\\nwho made them and governs them by his wisdom, and good children raise\\ntheir sweet voices in hymns of praise.\\nThe place where man was made was named Eden, and in one\\npart of it was a garden, a beautiful place where grew flowers and trees,\\nwhich bore fruit fit for the food of man. Through the garden flowed a\\nfine river, which divided into four branches, to each of which the Bible\\nhas given a name, one of which, Euphrates, is still borne by one of the", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0036.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE CREATION AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN.\\n21\\ngreat rivers of Asia, so that, although the Garden of Eden is no more, we\\ncan very nearly say whereabouts it was. It was near the country after-\\nwards occupied by the Assyrians, that great and warlike people, who fought\\nagainst the Jews, and about whom we may read so much in the Bible.\\nGod did not intend\\nAdam and Eve to be idle,\\nfor he knows that work is\\nnecessary to happiness. He\\ntold Adam to work in the\\ngarden, to keep it in order,\\nand to attend to the growth\\nof the herbs and fruits that\\ngave him food. There were\\nin the garden two trees\\nwhich were not like the\\nothers, and to which were\\ngiven the names of the Tree\\nof Life, and the Tree of\\nKnowledge of Good and\\nEvil. That Tree of Know-\\nledge Adam and Eve were\\ntold not to touch. All the\\nother trees in the garden\\nwere theirs, but that one\\nalone they must not touch\\nnor eat of, lest ye die.\\nThat must have\\nseemed very terrible to\\nAdam and Eve, although,\\nperhaps, they did not quite\\nknow what death meant,\\nfor as yet there was\\nnothing in the world but happy life, and the death of anything was\\nunknown. But no doubt the}^ knew that God would be very angry if they\\ndid not obey him, and that his anger would make them very unhappy.\\nFor a short time they were obedient and happy. Adam worked in the\\ngarden, and Eve helped him, and they enjoyed the sweet fruits for food.\\nTHE TEMPTATION IN THE GARDEN.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0037.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "22 THE CREATION AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN.\\nAmong the living things in the garden was a serpent, which, we\\nare told in the Bible, was more subtle (that is, cunning) than any beast\\nof the field, and it was able to speak. None of the other animals which\\nhad been created could do that. But this serpent was really an evil spirit,\\nthe same which in other parts of Scripture is named Satan, and he was\\nable to take the form of a serpent, and so to crawl near Eve and whisper\\nto her. He asked her if she had really been told not to eat of the fruit of\\none tree, and when she replied that Adam and she would surely die if\\nthey did not obey the command not to eat of this one tree, the serpent\\ntold her that was not true, and that God had only told them not to eat\\nbecause he knew that if they did they would be as wise as he was.\\nThe woman believed the serpent; the tree was loaded with nice\\nfruit, it was pleasant to the eye, and a tree to be desired to make one\\nwise. She was not satisfied with being good, and wished to be as wise\\nas God himself. She allowed Satan to persuade her, and tasted the fruit\\nand Adam, who saw what she had done, forgot the command he had\\nreceived and the punishment which he had been told would follow disobe-\\ndience, and he also ate of the forbidden fruit.\\nDirectly they had eaten, they were changed creatures; no longer\\ngood, but feeling ashamed of themselves. They knew the Lord God was\\nnear, and for the first time they felt afraid to see him. They heard his\\nvoice calling, Adam, where art thou? Adam answered, I was afraid,\\nand hid myself. God knew that he had been disobeyed; and asked them\\nif they had eaten of the tree he had told them not to touch.\\nAdam tried to excuse himself by saying that Bve gave him the\\nfruit, and she could only say, ashamed and afraid as she was, that the ser-\\npent had tempted her. Then God laid a curse upon the serpent, and said\\nthere should be enmity between it and the woman, and between her\\nchildren and the offspring of the serpent, but that, in the course of time,\\nthe serpent s head should be bruised, which means that Jesus Christ\\nshould come to conquer Satan, and save from him all those who believed\\nin the Saviour. Adam and Eve were told that sorrow and pain would be\\ntheirs all the days of their life; that they must live by hard work; that\\nthey would die, and would return to the dust whence they came.\\nAdam and Eve were driven from the garden in which they had\\nbeen placed, and at the entrance of Eden stood great angels with swords of\\nfire, so that the wicked Adam and Eve could return no more. They had lost the", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0038.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE CREATION AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN.\\n23\\nright to dwell in the beautiful garden, to eat the fruit and be happy and\\ngood; they had brought sin into the world, and, with sin, pain and shame.\\nHow sorry they must have been that they had so displeased God, and\\nlistened to the wicked advice of the serpent, instead of obeying the com-\\nmands which the Lord\\nhimself had given They\\nhad not known what death\\nwas, but they were soon to\\nknow it in its most terrible\\nform. They had seen the\\ntrees and flowers in the\\ngarden full of leaves and\\nblossoms, but they had not\\nseen them die; they had\\nseen the animals which\\nAdam had named full of\\nlife, but they had not seen\\nthem lying dead.\\nWe may read in the\\nNew Testament that the\\nfirst Adam brought death\\ninto the world, and it was\\nthe sin of Adam and Eve\\nwhich did so. They must\\nhave worked hard to get\\nfood and clothing; they\\nmust have known what\\npain was, and must often\\nhave thought of the happy\\nstate in which they once\\nwere, and turned their eyes\\ntoward the garden of the adam and eve driven fro:.i paradise.\\nLord. But the angels were there with the flaming sword that turned every way.\\nAnd never again will man see the beautiful garden of Eden. But\\nthose who have faith in the Saviour will, after death, go to a heavenly\\nParadise, where they shall see God, and Christ whom he hath sent.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0039.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "THE MURDER OF ABEL.\\nADAM and Eve had two sons the eldest was named Cain, and his\\nbrother, Abel. As they grew up, Cain helped his father to dig the\\nground, and Abel kept sheep. Although Adam and Eve had\\noffended God and had been driven from Paradise, they had not, we may\\nsuppose, forgotten him, and had trained up their sons to worship him.\\nWhen Cain and Abel grew up they each made an offering to the Lord.\\nCain brought fruits such as he had been taught to look after, and\\nAbel brought lambs. No doubt Cain did not really worship God, and was\\nnot sincere in his offering, while Abel did love and fear God, and desired\\nto please him for the Lord would not accept the sacrifice which Cain\\nm^de, but was pleased with the offering of Abel.\\nCain was very angry when he saw this, and his face showed how\\nangry he was. This was a proof that he was not in a fit state of mind\\nto worship God properly, for we should be meek and gentle, if we may\\nhope that God will hear our prayers or accept our praises. God saw how\\nvexed and angry Cain was, and reasoned with him, If thou doest well,\\nshalt thou not be accepted and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at thy\\ndoor. But Cain would not listen to reason, even when the Lord spoke,\\nbut was angry with his brother because he had found more favor; and at\\nlast, giving way to his rage, struck him so that he fell dead at his feet.\\nThat was the first death of a man that had been known in the\\nworld, and the first death was a murder; not a quiet death, such, as good\\nmen meet, with prayer on their lips, and loving friends around, but a\\nsudden, violent death, and the only one near to see the dying youth give\\nup his breath was his own brother, who ought to have loved and taken\\ncare of him, but who, in a fit of anger, had struck the blow that killed\\nhim. It was all owing to a sudden outburst of passion. Cain did not con-\\ntrol his violent temper, but gave way to it in a thoughtless moment and\\ncommitted the greatest of all crimes. People who give way to wild outbursts\\nof temper are sure to get into trouble, and do things that they regret in\\ntheir calmer moments.\\nCain, we dare say, was filled with horror when he saw his brother\\nlying dead at his feet but he was sullen, and, instead of asking forgive-\\nness for what he had done, tried to hide the deed, even from the Lord,\\n24", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0040.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE MURDER OF ABEL.\\n25\\nwho sees every thing and knows every thought. God spake, and how\\nawful his voice must have sounded in Cain s ear! He said, Where is\\nAbel, thy brother? Cain said, I know not, and added to such a\\nshocking falsehood the wicked question, Am I my brother s keeper\\nHe was partly his\\nbrother s keeper, for he was\\nthe elder, and no doubt\\nAdam and Eve trusted him\\nto protect with his greater\\nstrength the darling and\\ngentle Abel. God, however,\\nwas not to be deceived, and\\nreplied What hast thou\\ndone The voice of thy\\nbrother s blood crieth unto\\nme from the ground. And\\nnow art thou cursed from\\nthe earth, which hath open-\\ned her mouth to receive thy\\nbrother s blood from thy\\nhand when thou tillest the\\nground, it shall not hence-\\nforth yield unto thee her\\nstrength a fugitive and a\\nvagabond shalt thou be in\\nthe earth.\\nGod did not say that\\nCain should at once starve,\\nthat the earth should not\\ngive some fruit for his food,\\nbut that it should not yield\\nher strength, only give THE MURDER OF ABEL,\\nhim a little fruit, so that he should never have much, but be always poor\\nand a wanderer from place to place. Cain knew what a punishment this\\nwas he had no hope to cheer him, nothing but the thought that for the\\nrest of his life he should be homeless and wretched, and that he himself\\nmight meet as violent and sudden a death as his brother did. My pun-", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0041.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "26 THE MURDER OF ABEL.\\nishnient, he said, is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven\\nme out this day from the face of the earth.\\nAnd then he knew that he had lost the favor o\u00c2\u00a3 God, that favor of\\nwhich, perhaps, he had heard his father and mother speak when telling their\\nchildren of the happy time when they were in Hden, and which he had\\nhimself felt when peacefully tilling the ground, and seeing how happy the\\nworld around him was. With tears, perhaps, he said And from thy face\\nshall I be hid. His happy life had passed away, his peace of mind had\\nbeen for ever lost by his great crime, and, worse than all, he would never\\nagain see the face of his Lord and Maker. But he need not have been afraid\\nof being killed. None would kill him, for God set a mark upon him, that\\nhe might be known, and threatened vengeance on any who should slay him.\\nAfter Abel s death and Cain s banishment, Adam and Eve had\\nanother son, whom they named Seth. Eve hoped that he would grow up\\nlike the good Abel whom Cain had killed. She believed that this son was\\nthe gift of God, to take the place of the dear child she had lost, and said\\nu God hath appointed me another son instead of Abel, for neither Adam\\nnor Eve forgot the Lord and his goodness, and they believed that he still\\nwatched over them as a Father, although they had sinned so greatly.\\nWhen Seth had lived many years he had a son named Enos, and\\nl y that time, for Seth was a hundred and five years old when Enos was\\nborn, there were, no doubt, many men and women in the world, for, perhaps,\\nAdam had other sons and daughters and we read in the Bible that about\\nthe time of the birth of Enos, men began to call upon the name of the Lord.\\nAdam himself lived to the great age of nine hundred and thirty\\nyears, and, we may believe, told his children and grandchildren, and their\\nchildren, too, how he and Eve had lived in Eden, but had been driven out,\\nand warned them against giving way to sin, and forgetting God.\\nCain wandered into the land of Nod, to the east of the place where\\nhe had lived before the murder, and in the course of time for men lived\\nto a great age in the early days of the world others came there, most\\nlikely the children of Seth, and Cain took a wife, and had a son whom he\\ncalled Enoch, and built a city which he named after him.\\nCain had many grandchildren and great-grandchildren among them\\nJubal, who invented music and musical instruments Tubal Cain, who\\nworked in metals, made tools of iron and brass and Jabal, who gathered\\ntogether flocks and herds, led, perhaps, a wandering life, and, as the Bible", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0042.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "NOAH AND THE FLOOD. 27\\nexpresses it, was the father of all such as dwell in tents, and of such as\\nhave cattle.\\nWe have just said that men then lived to a very great age, and the\\noldest man ever known was Methusaleh, who was the great-grandson of\\nEnoch (not the son of Cain, but one of the descendants of Seth), and is\\nsaid to have lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years. This Enoch was a\\ngood man, and the Bible says he walked with God, and it is added he\\nwas not for God took him. This, we are told in the New Testament,\\nmeant that Enoch did not die as other men did, but was taken to Heaven\\nwhile yet alive.\\nBut the children and grandchildren of Enoch, it is to be feared,\\nforgot what a good man he was, for by the time his great-grandson Noah\\nhad grown up the wickedness of man was great on the earth.\\nThere were giants on the earth in those days, strong men who\\nwere men of renown, that is, famous for their power and courage, but\\nthey were violent and wicked, had bad thoughts in their hearts, and forgot\\nthe Lord in whom their fathers had believed. God, we are told, repented\\nthat he had made man all the people were so wicked he determined to\\ndestroy them, and not only them, but the animals that he had made, man,\\nand beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air.\\nNOAH AND THE FLOOD.\\nTHERE was one man who still loved God, and was a just man. That\\nwas Noah, and the Lord willed to save him and his family, and\\nfor his sake to save also two of every kind of living thing. God\\nhad determined to send a great flood upon the earth, and he told Noah\\nto make a large ark, or covered ship, which would hold all that he would\\nsave. Noah was taught how to build the ark. It was to be made of\\nwood, there were to be rooms in it, and it was to be covered inside and\\noutside with pitch.\\nIt must have been a very large ship, for it had three stories, and a\\nwindow and a door in the side. It was the first ship that had ever been\\nmade, for the people in those days had, perhaps, scarcely seen the sea, or\\nif they had seen it, would have been afraid, strong and bold as they were,\\nto venture upon it, for they did not know how to build a boat to float\\nsafely, much more a ship large enough to hold a great number of persons.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0043.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "28\\nNOAH AND THE FLOOD.\\nThey must have wondered what Noah and his sons were making, and,\\nperhaps, laughed at him for if he told them that a great flood was coming\\nwhich should cover the earth and destroy all living things except such as\\nGod had chosen to save, they were so unbelieving and wicked, and had so\\nforgotten what they might\\nhave been told of the power\\nof God, that they would\\nnot think Noah was speak-\\ning the truth.\\nBut Noah trusted in\\nthe Lord he knew that he\\nwas faithful to his promise,\\nand went on working until\\nthe great ship, or ark, grew\\ninto shape, and was finish-\\ned then, still obeying the\\ncommand of God, Noah\\ntook a pair of every living\\nthing, and enough food for\\nthem and himself and fam-\\nily, and when all was ready,\\nhe placed the beasts and\\nbirds and creeping things\\nin the ark and he and\\nhis wife, and his sons, Shem,\\nHam, and Japlieth, and\\ntheir wives, went, too, into\\nthe ark, and waited for the\\nflood which they knew the\\nLord would send.\\nHe did send it. The\\nBible words are very strik-\\nNOAH AND HIS FAMILY ENTERING THE ARK.\\ning, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows\\nof heaven were opened, and the rain was upon the earth. You have, no\\ndoubt, seen heavy rain come down suddenly, pouring from the sky, and may\\nhave seen small streams quickly become like great rivers, as if all at once\\nnew springs of water had broken forth. If so, you will be able to under-", "height": "3217", "width": "2271", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0044.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "NOAH AND THE FLOOD.\\n29\\nstand the force and meaning of the words of the Bible and realize the fear-\\nful nature of the flood which overwhelmed the earth.\\nBut never since has there been such rain known as that which then\\nfell upon the earth. Very heavy rain, even in the countries where there is\\nmost rain, seldom lasts\\nabove a few hours, and\\nalthough we have wet sea-\\nsons, some rain perhaps\\nevery day for a month or\\neven more, yet the rain\\nsometimes ceases, and some-\\ntimes comes down gently.\\nBut Noah saw from the ark\\nthe rain coming down like\\na great torrent for forty\\ndays and forty nights. It\\ndid not slacken or stop.\\nAt first the little\\nstreams and great rivers\\nrose and covered the fields.\\nThen the waters rose higher\\nand higher, drowning the\\ncattle and wild animals\\nwhich fled into caves. Men\\nand women, trembling with\\nfright, and knowing now\\nhow great was the power of\\nthe Lord whom they had for-\\ngotten, and how truly Noah\\nhad spoken when he told\\nthem why the ark was built,\\nclimbed the hills for safety. THE FLOOD DESTROYING THE EARTH.\\nBut still the waters rose higher and higher. The valleys became\\none great sea; the smaller hills were covered. People who were too weak\\nto climb were swept away by the great rush of waters, and others sought safety\\non the lofty mountains. But the rain poured down the sides of the highest hills,\\nand men and women were carried away to death bv the force of the waters.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0045.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "30\\nNOAH AND THE FLOOD.\\nThen came the time when the mountain-tops were covered, and\\nthere was nothing but a great raging sea. The towns which the mighty\\nmen had built, all the work which they had done, were hidden beneath the\\nwaters; but the ark floated safely, for it was upheld by the power of the\\nLord, and in it was all that\\nwas left of the life which\\nhad been upon the earth.\\nFor a hundred and\\nfifty days the waters were\\nat their height, but Noah\\nand those with him were\\nsafe, and then the flood\\nabated, and the ark rested\\non the mountain of Ararat.\\nAfter forty days Noah let\\na raven fly, and then a dove,\\nbut the dove could find no\\nresting-place and so came\\nback, but after seven days\\nmore was sent out again\\nand then brought an olive\\nleaf in its mouth, so that\\nNoah knew that the waters\\nhad abated.\\nAfter waiting seven\\ndays he let the dove fly\\nagain, and it did not come\\nback. Noah then knew\\nthat there must be dry land,\\nand, removing the covering\\nof the ark, he looked out,\\nNOAH OFFERING SACRIFICE. and once again saw the\\nearth. The Lord had sent a great wind which drove the w r aters back, and\\nsoon dried the land. Then he told Noah to leave the ark, with his wife\\nand sons and their wives, and all the living things that were with him.\\nThat is the wonderful story of the flood as told in the Bible and\\nnot long ago a clever traveller dug up some records, engraved on baked", "height": "3232", "width": "2295", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0046.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "NOAH AND THE FLOOD. 31\\nclay, from ruins where they had been hidden for thousands of years, which\\ntold nearly the same story. When Noah was once again on the earth he\\nbuilt an altar, and thanked God for his mercy, and God promised that the\\nworld should never again be destroyed by a flood, and that the rainbow in\\nthe clouds should be a witness of this promise forever.\\nThe Lord said he would never again destroy every living thing, but\\nthat so long as the earth remained the seasons should come in regular\\norder; there should be seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and\\nwinter, day and night. And we may see how he has kept his promise ever\\nsince. Every year the leaves come upon the trees at the same time, the grass\\ngrows, the corn ripens and is ready for reaping, winter and summer come\\nevery year, every day the sun gives us light, and every night darkness comes..\\nGod never fails, but what he promises that he performs. Whenever\\nwe see the rainbow in the clouds and we may very often see it after\\na heavy storm of rain we should remember how once God destroyed\\nthe wicked people of the world, all but a few righteous men and their\\nfamilies, and how he preserved them because Noah believed in him, and.\\ndid as he was commanded. Let us remember, too, that God promised.\\nNoah, and, through him, promised us, that he would not again destroy-\\nthe world with a flood of water.\\nThe great flood, the story of which we have just read, was sent several\\nthousand years ago, but not a year has passed since without the bow, with\\nall its beautiful colors, being seen in the clouds, to remind us of God s;\\npower and goodness.\\nGod blessed Noah and his sons, and told them that he gave thern.\\npower over beasts, birds and fishes that every moving thing that liveth\\nwould be food for them. He commanded them, too, that they must take-\\ncare of each other. Noah, no doubt, had told his children the shocking-\\nstory of the murder of Abel by his brother Cain and now the Lord again\\nwarned them against the sin of murder, saying, Whoso sheddeth man s,\\nblood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made he man.\\nBut even Noah, who had been so good before the flood, fell into sin\\nafterwards. Like Adam, he kept a garden, and he also grew vines, from\\nwhich he made wine, and foolishly and wickedly drank of it too freely,\\nand committed the sin of drunkenness. His son Ham saw him in a\\nhelpless state in a drunken sleep, and made a mock of him and for this\\nNoah, when he awoke, cursed Ham and his son Canaan,, who had,,", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0047.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "32\\nTHE TOWER OF BABEL.\\nperhaps, mocked him too, and, while he blessed Shem and Japheth, said\\nthe others should be the servants of their brethren.\\nNoah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood, and was\\nnine hundred and fifty years old when he died. His three sons, Shem,\\nJapheth and Ham, had many children, who spread abroad over the earth,\\nand founded many nations in various places\\nTHE TOWER OF BABEL.\\nTHE TOWER OF BABEL.\\nIT was about a hundred\\nyears after the flood,\\nwhen men began to\\nbuild the city and tower\\nof Babel. They meant to\\nmake a very large place,\\nand build a very high tower.\\nI cannot be quite sure why\\nthey built them the Bible\\ndoes not exactly say. Some\\npeople think that the tower\\nwas built for the worship\\nof the sun and the stars of\\nheaven, as men had already\\nbegun again to turn from\\nworshiping God only.\\nOthers think that\\nmen built this big place so\\nthat they might all live\\ntogether. But God had said\\nthat different families were\\nto spread abroad, so that\\nthe earth might be full of\\npeople. Whatever their\\nreason was, God was not\\npleased with them, and he\\nwould not let them go on\\nwith the building.", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0048.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "ABRAHAM AND LOT. 33\\nI will tell you how lie stopped them. Up to this time every person\\nin the world spoke the same language, so that they could all understand\\none another. Now, God made them speak in different tongues, so that they\\ncould not make out what the other said.\\nIf you were to go to India you could not understand the talk of\\nHindu children, nor can they understand English, unless they have been\\ntaught it. So these people began to call the same thing by different\\nnames, and they could not possibly tell what a man wanted when he asked\\nfor it. Perhaps one would ask for a hammer, and his companion would bring\\nhim a brush perhaps he would ask for mortar, and he would bring him a brick.\\nOf course they could not go on building the city, so they left off,\\nand called it Babel, which means confusion. Because the Lord did there\\nconfound the language of all the earth. They then separated into com-\\npanies those that spoke all alike kept together. They then went abroad\\nto different parts of the earth, as God had before told them to do. Thus\\nthe very means they used to keep together were the means God took to\\nscatter them abroad, and spread them over the earth.\\nABRAHAM AND LOT.\\nSHEM, the eldest son of Noah, was not one of those who were driven\\nout of the land after the Tower of Babel had been built. He had\\nchildren and grandchildren, and many years afterwards there was one\\nof his race named Terah, who had three sons, named Abram, Nahor and\\nHaran. Harau died young, and left one son, Lot, but the other brothers lived\\nafter their father s death. Abram married Sarai, and Nahor married Milcah.\\nAbram had no children and stayed with his father, Terah, who took\\nhim and his wife, and Lot, the grandson of Terah and nephew of Abram,\\naway from the land of Ur, where they had lived so long, intending to go\\ninto the land of Canaan, which perhaps he had heard of as being a very\\nfine and fruitful country, where their flocks and herds could find plenty of\\nfood for in those days people did not live in houses and towns, but in\\ntents, and moved about from place to place. But they did not get farthe*\\nthan Haran, which, perhaps, Terah named after his dead son, and there\\nhe stayed until he died.\\nBut God wished Abram to live in Canaan, and told him to leave\\nHaran he did so, taking with him his wife Sarai, and his brother s son,\\n3", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0049.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "34\\nABRAHAM AND LOT.\\nLot, and his servants and all his riches. God promised him that from his\\nfamily would spring a great nation, and that he should be a blessing to\\nthe world. God also promised that he would bless all that blessed Abram,\\nand curse all that cursed him. Abram passed through the land as far as\\nthe Plain of Sichem and\\nMoreh, and was told by the\\nLord that all that fair land\\nshould be his. God showed\\nhimself to Abram, who built\\nan altar on the spot, and\\nanother on a mountain near\\nBethel, where he lived in a\\nlarge tent.\\nBut although Abram\\nwas rich, and had been\\npromised that all the land\\nshould be his, he was not\\nwithout trouble. The peo-\\nple of the country, the Ca-\\nnaanites, were fierce and\\nbold, and there came a fam-\\nine, so that Abram could\\nnot get enough food for\\nhimself and those who were\\nwith him. He knew that\\nEgypt was a rich and fertile\\ncountry, and he made up\\nhis mind to go there, and\\ntake with him his wife and\\nfamily. He was not then\\nso good a man as after-\\nwards he was, but was\\ntimid, and forgot how right it is always to speak the exact truth, whatever\\nmay be the result. He feared that some of the Egyptians might wish to\\nmarry Sarai, who was very handsome, and might kill him he told her,\\ntherefore, to say that she was his sister.\\nPharaoh, the king of Egypt, saw Sarai and took her into his house,\\nABRAHAM DEPARTING FROM HARAN.", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0050.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "ABRAHAM AND LOT.\\n35\\nand for her sake treated Abram, who he thought was her brother, very\\nwell. But the Lord was angry with Abram for telling a falsehood, anl\\nwith Pharaoh for taking Sarai away, and he sent plagues upon the house\\nof the king, who at length came to know the truth, and he was glad to\\ngive her back to Abram,\\nat the same time blaming\\nhim for his deceit. He did\\nnot take any of Abram s\\nwealth, cattle, silver and\\ngold, but let him, and all\\nthat were with him, go.\\nAbram and his wife, and\\nLot, with his servants and\\ncattle, then went back to\\nBethel, where he had raised\\nan altar, and prayed to the\\nLord, no doubt, to forgive\\nhim the sin of having told\\nan untruth.\\nLot was also rich,\\nhaving flocks and herds,\\nand many tents for his ser-\\nvants to live in. But he\\nand Abram found that they\\ncould not dwell together,\\nfor, says the Bible, The\\nland was not able to bear\\nthem, which means that\\nthere was not food enough\\nat that place for all their\\nservants and cattle and the\\nmen who took care of the THE separation OF abram and lot,\\nflocks and herds quarrelled and fought among themselves. Abram was\\ngreatly pained at this strife, for he loved Lot, his brother s son, and told\\nhim they had better part, but Lot might stay there if he chose, and Abram\\nwould go away, or, if Lot would like better to go, he would remain.\\nLot knew what a fine land there was to the east, in the valley of", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0051.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "36 ABRAHAM AND LOT.\\nthe Jordan river, a laud like a garden, and he told Abrain he would go and live\\nthere. There were two cities there, on the border of a large lake, in the midst\\nof this beautiful country, Sodoni and Gomorrah, and near them Lot dwelt.\\nAfter Lot had gone away, the Lord told Abram that he would give\\nhim all the land, as far as he could see in every direction, for himself and\\nfor his children, for ever, and that his race should be so many that it would\\nbe as eas} r to count the grains of dust of the earth as to count them.\\nAbram then removed his tent from Bethel, and dwelt in the plain of Mamre,\\nin Hebron; and there, too, he set up an altar, and worshiped the God who\\nhad been so good to him.\\nLot, no doubt, thought he had found a very good place to live in\\nwhen he reached the cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah; but the\\npeople of those places were very wicked, and the kings of the two towns,\\nand other kings near, were at war with the kings of Shinar, Elam, and\\nother places and, after long fighting, there was a great battle in a place\\nknown as the vale of Siddim, and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were\\nbeaten, and fled, falling into pits of slime, or pitch, and those of the soldiers\\nwho were left alive hid themselves among the mountains. The other kings,\\nwho had gained the battle, then took away the riches of the two towns, and\\nmany of the chief people, and among them Lot, with all his wealth and his\\nservants, intending to make them slaves.\\nOne of the men, however, escaped, and reached the place where Abram\\ndwelt, and told him that Lot had been taken away, and was a captive\\nAbram had many servants, all born in his house, and faithful to him, and\\nhe armed them and went in pursuit of the kings who had taken away his\\nbrother s son. He followed them as far as Hobah, which is near Damascus,\\nand there he took from them Lot, with his people and his wealth, and guarded\\nthem back to Sodom, where he was met by the king of that place, and by\\nthe holy Melchizedek, king of Salem, who was, we are told in the Bible,\\nthe priest of the most high God, and who blessed Abram, saying, Blessed\\nbe Abram of the most high G~d, possessor of heaven and earth: and blessed\\nbe the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.\\nThe king of Sodom wished Abrain to take, as a reward, all the\\nwealth he had brought back but he refused, saying that he had vowed\\nto God he would accept nothing for what he had done, so that the king\\nmight not be able to boast that he had made him rich; but he allowed the\\nmen who went with him to have a portion of the rewards the king had offered.", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0052.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "TSAAP WELCOMING REBEKAH", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0053.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "3\\na\\nH\\nft\\nO\\no\\no\\n3", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0054.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "ABRAHAM AND LOT.\\n37\\nBut, with all his riches and power, Abram was not happy. He had\\nno children, and he thought that when he died, his steward, or chief\\nservant, Eliezer, would take his place. The Lord spoke to him in a vision,\\nand reminded him how he had before taken care of him and given him all\\nthings that were good for\\nhim: I am thy shield and\\nthy exceeding great re-\\nward. He promised him\\nthat he should have a son,\\nand that his race should\\nbe as numerous as the stars\\nin heaven, which no man\\ncould count.\\nGod also told him\\nthat he should possess all\\nt he land but that his des-\\ncendants should be for four\\nhundred years captives and\\nservants in a strange land,\\nbut that they should re-\\nturn with great riches. To\\nAbram himself, it was prom-\\nised that he should live to\\na good old age, and die\\npeacefulry. Abram made\\na sacrifice to the Lord, and\\nsaw by strange signs that\\nthe vision he had had was\\nreal. The land which- God\\npromised to Abram and his\\nchildren reached from the\\nriver of Egypt to the Eu-\\nphrates, a vast country.\\nAbram was nearly a hundred years old when God repeated the\\npromise he had made that he should be the father of a great nation. All\\nScripture names have particular meanings, and Abram is formed of two\\nHebrew words meaning high father. God now told him to change his\\nMELCHIZEDEK SETTING BREAD AND WINE BEFORE\\nABRAHAM AND LOT.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0055.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "38 ABRAHAM AND LOT.\\nname to Abraham, which means father of a great multitude; for, said\\nGod, a father of man}^ nations have I made thee. Sarai s name, too,\\nwas changed to Sarah, which means mistress, a title of honor, God\\nsaving, I will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations.\\nAt first Abraham had not faith enough to believe the promise, for it\\nseemed strange to him that Sarah and he should have any children now\\nthey were so old but God repeated the promise, adding that a son should\\nbe born whose name should be Isaac he shall laugh, or rejoice,\\nshowing the happiness he would bring to his parents. Perhaps some of\\nvou have read a pretty little poem in which a dear baby is spoken of as\\na smile of God if so, you will understand how pleased Abraham and\\nSarah must have been to be told that they should have a son so named.\\nWe shall see that the promise was exactly kept, and when we read\\nthe history of the Jewish people in the other books of the Old Testament,\\nwe shall see how great they were, how many kings they had, and that\\nAbraham was indeed the father of a great nation and, better still, in the\\nNew Testament we are told that the Lord Jesus Christ was of the race of\\nAbraham, and that in him all the nations of the world are blessed.\\nOne fine summer day Abraham was sitting at the door of his tent,\\non the plain of Mamre, resting perhaps after labor, when he saw three men\\nstanding near him. In those times weary travellers could always make sure\\nof having food and rest offered them when they reached a tent, and in that\\nhot, dusty country washing the feet after a journey was very pleasant and\\nrefreshing. Water for that purpose was always offered as well as food; and\\nAbraham, directly he saw the men, who he thought were tired and hungry\\ntravellers, went quickly to them, and, bowing low, asked them to rest in the\\nshadow of the trees, eat some food which he would fetch, and wash their feet.\\nWhile they rested, Sarah busied herself making a cake, and Abraham\\nhad a young calf killed, so that he might offer a good meal to the strangers.\\nWhen the cake and meat were ready, they were, with butter and milk, set\\nbefore the strangers, who ate, while Abraham, as the custom was, waited\\nupon his guests. Abraham was so kind and hospitable because in those\\ntimes it was the practice to be so, and if travellers had not been welcomed\\nin that way by those who dwelt in the land, they might have died from\\nhunger and thirst; but he did not at first know that his guests were\\nangels, and that the Lord himself was speaking through them.\\nWhen, however, they asked for Sarah, and the promise that she", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0056.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "ABRAHAM AND LOT.\\n39\\nshould have a son was repeated, Abraham knew that he was in the pres-\\nence of the Lord. Sarah did not know it, but when, hidden in the tent\\n(for it was not the custom of Eastern women to show themselves much to\\nstrangers), she heard that before another year was over she should have a\\nchild, she laughed, but the\\nLord reproved her, and no\\ndoubt she was sorry after-\\nwards that she had so very\\nlittle faith.\\nWhen they left the\\ntent the strangers told Abra-\\nham that they were going\\nto Sodom, and he offered\\nto lead them on the way.\\nAs they were journeying,\\nthe Lord said he had de-\\ntermined to destroy that\\ncity because of the terrible\\nwickedness of the people.\\nThe two angels who were\\nwith God left Abraham and\\nwent towards Sodom, and\\nthen Abraham, whose ne-\\nphew, Lot, with his family,\\nwas in the wicked city,\\npleaded with the Lord for i J\\nthe righteous men who\\nmight be there.\\nIf, was the ans-\\nwer, I find in Sodom fifty\\nrighteous within the city,\\nI will spare all the place Abraham entertaining the three angels.\\nfor their sake. Abraham still prayed for the good men who might be\\nthere, even if not so many as fifty, and received the promise that if only\\nten were there the city should be spared.\\nAbraham returned to his home, hoping, no doubt, that good men\\nenough would be found in Sodom to save it but he did not know how", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0057.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "40\\nABRAHAM AND LOT.\\nvery wicked the people were, for not even ten could be found and the\\ntwo angels who had gone to the house of Lot, took him and his wife and\\ntwo daughters, and led them out of the city, telling them to go to a small\\ntown a short distance off,\\nwhere they would be safe.\\nThen brimstone and\\nfire were rained out of hea-\\nven upon Sodom and Go-\\nmorrah, which, with every\\nliving creature in them,\\nwere destroyed. Lot and\\nhis family were commanded\\nnot to look behind them\\nwhen flying, but his wife\\ndisobeyed, and was imme-\\ndiately changed into a pil-\\nlar ol salt.\\nWhen, according to\\nthe promise, Isaac was\\nborn, his mother was full\\nof joy, and said, referring\\nto the name which had\\nbeen given him, God hath\\nmade me to laugh, so that\\nall that hear will laugh\\nwith me. Isaac grew up\\na good child, and we may\\nbe sure was a great joy\\nto his parents. So ten-\\nderly, indeed, does he seem\\nTHE ANGELS WARNING LOT TO FLEE FROM SODOM. to have een 0Ye( Dy hi s\\nfather, that the Lord made him a means of trying Abraham s faith and\\nobedience. The old father was told to take his little son to a mountain\\nin the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a sacrifice.\\nAbraham must have felt bitterly how hard it was to obey such, a\\ncommand, but he had faith in God, and knew that the Lord s will must\\nbe done. Early in the morning he took Isaac and two of his servants,", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0058.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "ABRAHAM AND LOT.\\n41\\nwith wood for the burnt-offering, and an ass to help thern bear it, or\\nperhaps for the lad to ride on. For three days they travelled, the father\\nvery sad, and the boy, not knowing why they were going so long a\\ndistance, no doubt, enjoying the ride, and talking prettily and innocently\\nabout all the strange things\\nhe saw. At length they\\nreached the mountain, and\\nthen Abraham bade his\\nyoung men remain behind,\\nwhile he and Isaac went\\nto make the offering.\\nIt was natural that\\nthe boy should ask where\\nwas the lamb that was to\\nbe killed, and his father\\nanswered sadly, My son,\\nGod will provide himself\\na lamb for a burnt-offer-\\ning. Perhaps he hoped\\nthat the Lord was only\\ntrying his obedience, but\\nyet he knew that he\\nmust obey; and when they\\nreached the place Abraham\\nbuilt the altar, and then,\\nbinding his boy on to it,\\ntook the knife and was\\nabout to kill him, when\\nhe heard his name called\\nout of heaven. He an-\\nswered, Here am I and\\nthen what must have been Abraham offering up isaac.\\nhis joy to hear the Lord say, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither\\ndo thou anything unto him for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing\\nthat thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.\\nAmazed and thankful, Abraham looked round and saw a ram\\ncaught by its horns in a thicket. He took it, unbound Isaac, and made", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0059.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "42\\nABRAHAM AND LOT.\\nof the rani a burnt-offering to the Lord. In order that the place where the\\naltar was built might be known afterwards, he named it Jehovah-jireh,\\nthe mount of the Lord. Again the voice of God was heard, repeating the\\npromise of the greatness of the people of which Abraham should be the\\nfather, as many as the\\nstars in heaven and the\\nsand which is upon the\\nsea-shore, and that in them\\nshould all the nations of\\nthe earth be blessed.\\nAbraham, we may\\nbe sure, went down from\\nthe mountain a happier\\nman than when he started\\non his journey. His dear\\nchild was with him, not\\nled as a victim to be offered\\nup, but with a promise of\\nlife and happiness, and\\nfuture greatness. After that\\nAbraham dwelt at Beer-\\nsheba, a place where, some\\ntime before, he had made\\na covenant, or treaty of\\npeace, with Abimelech, a\\nPhilistine chief or king,\\nwith whom Abraham had\\nhad a dispute about a well.\\nBeersheba means the well\\nof an oath, or the well\\nwhere a solemn promise\\nwas made.\\nAbraham had another son whose mother was Hagar, a servant of\\nSarah, who made Abraham turn her and the child away. Hagar wandered\\nin the wilderness of Beersheba, and then, being without food or water, she\\nlaid the boy down under a shrub, thinking he must die.\\nShe went a short distance away, for she could not bear to see her\\nABRAHAM SENDING AWAY HAGAR AND ISHMAEL.", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0060.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "ABRAHAM AND LOT.\\n43\\ndear son die. While she was weeping the angel of the Lord spoke to her,\\nshowed her a well, from which she got water, and told her that her son\\nshould be the father of a great nation. No doubt Hagar, while living with\\nAbraham, had learned to pray to God, and now found how ready he is to\\nhear prayer. The name\\ngiven to her son was Ish-\\nmael, which means God\\nhath heard. He grew up\\nto be a great archer, and\\nsome of his children were\\nfamous men.\\nAbraham sojourned\\nin Gerar. There his wife\\nSarah was taken from him\\nby Abimelech. But God\\ncame to Abimelech in a\\ndream by night and said\\nto him, Behold thou art\\nbut a dead man for the\\nwoman which thou hast\\ntaken for she is a man s\\nwife. Abimelech was told\\nthat he had been restrained\\nfrom sinning against God\\nby taking the wife of\\nAbraham and was com-\\nmanded to restore her to\\nher lawful husband.\\nSo he rose early\\nin the morning and called\\nall his servants and told\\nthem these things and abimelech restoring sarah to Abraham.\\nthe men were sore afraid. Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and\\nmen servants, and women servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and\\nrestored him Sarah his wife.\\nAnd Abimelech said, Behold my land is before thee dwell where\\nit pleases thee. And unto Sarah he said Behold I have given thy", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0061.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "44\\nISAAC AND REBEKAH.\\nbrother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold he is to thee a covering to\\nthe eyes unto all that is with thee. Thus she was reproved and Abraham\\nlikewise for having called her his sister.\\nS\\nISAAC AND REBEKAH.\\nARAH died at the place afterwards named Hebron, in Canaan. She\\nwas a hundred and twenty-seven years old, and having lived so long\\nwith Abraham, he greatly mourned her loss. He bought the field of\\nMachpelah, in which was\\na cave, for a burying-place,\\nand there he laid the body\\nof Sarah. He was very\\nold, and felt that death was\\nneai the Lord had blessed\\nhim in all things, and he\\nwished that his son Isaac\\nmight be as happy as he\\nhad been. He could not,\\nfrom age, rule over his\\nhou.se, but he had a trusted\\nservant, Eliezer, and he\\ncharged him not to choose a\\nwife for his son from among\\nthe Canaanites where he\\nthen dwelt, but that he\\nshould go into his own\\ncountry and there find a\\nwife for Isaac.\\nThe wife chosen\\nmust come back with them,\\nfor, as the Lord had prom-\\nised his son should inherit\\nthe land where they then\\nwere, he must not remain\\nin another place. The\\nservant obeyed, took ten\\nAbraham s servant and rebekah at the well.", "height": "3279", "width": "2279", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0062.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "W\\nen\\no\\n1-1\\nft\\no\\nco\\nCO\\nO\\na\\nH\\np\\no\\nM\\no\\na", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0063.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "w\\no\\no\\n55\\nl-t\\nw\\nw\\na\\nM\\no\\no", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0064.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "ISAAC AND REBEKAH.\\n45\\ncamels and went to Nahor, in Mesopotamia. When lie reached that place,\\nhe made the camels kneel down outside the city, beside a well, to which\\nthe women of the place came to draw water.\\nThe servant had been trained by his master to fear God, and asked\\nto be directed in the choice\\nhe was to make. He\\nprayed that if he asked\\none of the j^oung women\\nto give him drink from\\nher pitcher, and she did\\nso, and gave his camels\\ndrink also, that she might\\nbe the wife of Isaac. He\\nhad scarcely made the\\nprayer before it was an-\\nswsred, for there came to\\nthe well a beautiful young\\ngirl, Rebekah, the grand-\\ndaughter of Abraham s\\nbrother Nahor. She car-\\nried her pitcher on her\\nshoulder in the Eastern\\nmanner, and went down\\nto the well and filled it.\\nThe servant ran to\\nher and asked her to\\nlet him drink from her\\npitcher. She let down her\\npitcher till it rested on\\nher hand, and when he\\nhad drank from it, she\\nsaw that the camels were\\nthirsty, and ran down to\\nrebekah receiving presents from\\nAbraham s servant.\\nthe well again, bringing up enough water for them all. The servant then\\ngave her a golden ear-ring and golden bracelets of great value and asked\\nher name, and whether there was room in her father s house for him to\\nlodge. When she told him her father s name, and that he was the son of", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0065.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "4G ISAAC AND REBEKAH.\\nAbraham s brother and Milcah, the servant blessed God that his mastei\\nhad again known his mercy and truth, and that he, the servant, who had\\nbeen trusted so much, had been led to the house of his master s relations.\\nRebekah made haste home and told her mother what had happened\\nat the well, and her brother, Laban, went out to Abraham s servant and\\ninvited him to come to the house, where room had been made for him, his\\nmen and camels. They were fed, but he would eat nothing until he had\\nrelated the reason why he had come. He told them how his master,\\nAbraham, had been blessed and had become powerful and rich, how he\\nhad been sent into that country to seek a wife for Isaac, and how the\\nLord God of his master had guided him in the way to meet with Rebekah,\\nwho was the child of Abraham s brother s son.\\nBethuel, Rebekah s father, and Laban, her brother, saw that it was\\nthe Lord s will, and consented to let her go if she were willing. She said,\\nI will go, and the servant brought forth splended presents, raiment, and\\njewels of gold and silver, and gave them to her, making also handsome\\npresents to her mother and brother. He and his men were well feasted,\\nand in the morning he started to return to Abraham, and with him went\\nRebekah and her maidens, her relations blessing her as she went.\\nIsaac was walking in the fields in the evening when he saw in the\\ndistance the camels, with Rebekah and her attendants riding on them.\\nShe, too, had seen him, and asked the servant of Abraham who it was walk-\\ning in the fields as if to meet them. When told that it was Isaac, whose\\nwife she was to be, she got off the camel and covered her face with a veil.\\nThe faithful servant told his young master where he had been, and\\nthat he had brought Rebekah to be a wife for him. Isaac, who had\\ngreatly mourned the loss of his mother, who had been dead about three\\nyears, received Rebekah tenderly, loved her, and took her to the tent\\nwhich had been Sarah s, and made her his wife.\\nAfter the death of Sarah, Abraham had another wife, Keturah, and\\nsix other sons; but as they grew up he gave them presents and sent them\\naway into the east country, so that they should not trouble Isaac, to whom\\nhe gave all his wealth. At the age of one hundred and seventy-five good\\nold Abraham died, and was buried by the side of his wife Sarah in the\\ncave of Machpelah. God had greatly blessed him in his lifetime, and he\\ncontinued his blessing to Isaac, and made him prosperous.", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0066.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "JACOB AND ESAU.\\nISAAC and Rebekah were living very happily together, near Abraham s\\ntents. But they had one great trouble they had no child. They\\nhad been married a great many years, but no little children were\\nmaking their home bright by merry play and happy voices so Isaac\\nprayed very earnestly to God about it.\\nAnd God answered his prayer. He said that Rebekah should have\\ntwo sons, and that they should become afterwards in many years two\\nnations that one people should be stronger than the other people, and\\nthat the elder should serve the younger.\\nNot long after this two little baby-boys were born. They were\\ntwins that means they were both born almost at the same time. The one\\nwho was just a very little the older was red and hairy, and they called his\\nname Esau. The other, who was smooth and just like any other little baby,\\nthey called Jacob. But these names have a meaning. Esau means hairy,\\nor rough; and Jacob means a supplanter that is, one who displaces\\nanother, or steps into another s place. When the parents gave Jacob his\\nname, they remembered that God had said the younger was to have the\\nmastery over his elder brother.\\nWhen the lads were about fifteen years old, their good old grand-\\nfather Abraham died. All his life he had walked with God. He had led\\nan upright, holy and prayerful life, believing in and loving God with all\\nhis heart and he died at last in a good old age, being a hundred and\\nseventy-five years old.\\nThen his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him. In the cave of\\nMachpelah, which he had bought from Ephron, and where he had buried\\nSarah, his dear and faithful wife, there they reverently laid down the body\\nof him who was called the Friend of God, and the father of all them\\nthat believe.\\nAnd it came to pass, after the death of Abraham, that God blessed\\nIsaac, his son. And Isaac and Rebekah took their two boys and went to\\nlive by Hagar s well.\\nSo the lads grew up; and Esau became a clever and successful\\nhunter. He used to go out into the fields with his bow and arrows, and\\nshoot birds and wild beasts; and he used to shoot the wild deer and bring\\n47", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0067.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "4d\\nJACOB AND ESAU.\\nit home, and have it roasted and made into savory meat for his father, Isaac.\\nThe flesh of deer is called venison; and Isaac liked venison very much.\\nJacob did not care for hunting. He was a plain man, with simple\\ntastes and simple habits; and he lived quietly in a tent, and took care of\\nsheep and goats. Jacob\\nloved God and though,\\nas we shall see, he was\\nsometimes tempted to be\\nsly, untruthful and selfish,\\nyet God knew all that was\\nin his heart, and he saw\\nthat he was humble-minded,\\nand that he really did try\\nto walk uprightly so God\\nloved him.\\nBut God did not\\nlove Bsau, for Esau was\\nwicked, and had no wish\\nto serve him. He did not\\ncare for God s promises,\\nand he never tried to please\\nhim. Yet Esau was the\\nfavorite son of his good\\nfather, Isaac. Was it not\\nstrange Can you guess\\nthe reason of this\\nIt was because of the\\nvenison which he brought;\\nbut this was a very bad\\nreason for loving him best.\\nRebekah, however, loved\\nESAU SELLING HIS BIRTHRIGHT FOR POTTAGE. younger son the best\\nOne day Esau had been out in the fields hunting, and he came back very\\ntired, and quite faint for want of food. Now Jacob had just made some\\nsoup for himself of lentils, which are a small kind of bean; and when\\nEsau saw it he longed for it, and said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray you,\\nwith that red soup, or pottage, for I am faint.", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0068.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "JACOB AND ESAU. 49\\nAnd Jacob said, If I give it to you, will you give up to me all\\nyour rights as the eldest son?\\nAnd Hsau answered, Behold, I am at the point of death, and so\\nmy birthright will do me no good.\\nPromise me then faithfully that you will give your birthright to\\nme, Jacob said.\\nAnd Esau promised. So he sold his right as the elder for a basin\\nof soup.\\nThen Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. And he ate and\\ndrank, and then rose up and went away; thus he despised his birthright.\\nBut God was displeased at what he had done. Esau, as eldest son,\\nwas his father s heir; and special blessings and privileges were to be the\\nportion of the first-born. All the laud of Canaan was promised to Abra-\\nham s children, and it would naturally come to be the inheritance of the\\nfirst-born. But it would seem as if Esau did not care for blessings that\\nwere in the future and that he could not see the reason, no doubt, being\\nthat he did not believe in them.\\nBut Jacob had faith, and believed all God s promises. As his father\\nIsaac was, of all Abraham s children, the one most blessed by God, so\\nJacob wished that God s special blessing should come on himself, and not\\non his elder brother. Yet he behaved very wrongly in the way he tried\\nto get it and God blessed him, not because of it, but in spite of it.\\nAfter this there was a famine in the land of Canaan. Do you know\\nwhat a famine is It is a scarcity of food when men, women, and little\\nchildren cannot get enough to eat. A famine is a terrible thing. People\\nbecome so weak and ill from starvation that at last they lie down and die.\\nWhenever there is a famine, hundreds and hundreds of people are killed\\nby it; and think how dreadful a thing it must be to be starved to death!\\nSo, because of the famine, Isaac left the place where he was living,\\nand went a little further off to a place called Gerah, where the king of\\nthat country lived. And I think that when Isaac saw how scarce food\\nwas there, he must have intended to go down into Egypt; for the Lord\\nappeared to him, and said, Do not go down into Egypt. Dwell in this\\nland, and I will be with you, and bless you for to you, and to your\\nchildren, I will give all these countries and all the nations of the earth\\nshall be blessed in your family, because Abraham obeyed my voice, and\\nkept my commandments and my laws.\\n4", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0069.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "50 JACOB AND ESAU.\\nSo Isaac stayed in Gerah. And he sowed corn in that land; and\\nGod prospered him as he had promised, and gave him a wonderful harvest.\\nWhile his neighbors scarcely reaped at all, Isaac had an abundance of\\ncorn. And he went on prospering in all that he did, so that he became very\\ngreat and rich for he had large flocks of cattle and sheep, and a very great num-\\nber of servants. And the people of that land were jealous, and envied him.\\nThen they began to show their angry feelings by doing spiteful\\nthings. They stopped up all the wells that Abraham s servants had made,\\nand filled them with earth. This was doing much mischief, and a great\\nmi kindness, for now the cattle were in danger of dying of thirst. But\\nIsaac s servants digged the wells again, and called them by the same names\\nthat Abraham had given them.\\nThe men of Gerah, however, were always quarrelling with Isaac s men\\nabout the wells, and the king at last begged Isaac to go away. He said, De-\\npart from us for you are much stronger and more prosperous than we are.\\nSo Isaac took Rebekah his wife, and his two sons, Bsau and Jacob,\\nand went quite a way from there. He returned to Beer-sheba, which was\\nthe place where he was born, where he grew up, and where he lived so\\nlong near to his parents tents.\\nWhen Esau was forty years old he did a thing which distressed\\nhis father and mother very much. He married two wives, and they were\\nboth women of Canaan.\\nHow could he expect the blessing of God, when he took his com-\\npanions from a people who were exceedingly wicked, and who were under\\nGod s curse Ah it showed only too plainly that he did not care for\\nGod s blessing upon his marriage, nor upon his home and this was a sore\\ntrouble and a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.\\nYet still Isaac loved his godless son the best, and wished to give\\nhim the best blessing the blessing of the first-born. He wished to make\\nhim his heir to leave to him all his riches, and to pass on to him all\\nthose glorious promises of spiritual blessings of which Bsau was quite\\nunworthy, and for which he did not care.\\nSome years passed away, and Isaac had become a very old man.\\nHe was a hundred and thirty-five years of age (at that time his sons were\\nseventy-five years old), and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see.\\nAnd he called Esau, his eldest son. and said to him, My son. And\\nEsau answered, Behold, here am I.", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0070.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "JACOB AND ESAU. 51\\nAnd Isaac said, Behold now, I am old I do not know how soon\\nI may die. Now therefore take, I pray you, your weapons, your quiver\\n(a quiver is the case in which arrows are placed) and your bow, and go\\nout to the field, and get some venison for me and make me the savory\\nmeat that I like so much, and bring it to me, that I may eat then I\\nshall bless you before I die.\\nAnd Esau went to the field to hunt for vension, and to bring it.\\nBut Rebekah heard what Isaac had said to his son Bsau, and she began\\nto think how she might get the best blessing for her own favorite Jacob.\\nShe thought it could only be done by deceiving her husband, who was\\nblind and old and she was so anxious that the younger son should get\\nthe blessing intended for Esau, that she made up her mind to steal it for\\nhim if she could.\\nThis was her plan. She said to Jacob, Behold, I heard your\\nfather speak unto Esau your brother, saying, Bring me venison, and make\\nme savory meat, that I may eat, and bless you before the Lord before my\\ndeath. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, and do exactly what I tell\\nyou. Go to the flock, and look out two good kids of the goats then bring\\nthem to me, and I will make savory meat for your father, such as he likes\\nso much. And you shall take it to your father, that he may eat, and that\\nhe may bless you before his death.\\nAnd Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother\\nis a hairy man, and I am a smooth man perhaps my father will feel me,\\nand then he will find out that I was trying to deceive him so I shall\\nbring a curse upon myself, and not a blessing.\\nAnd his mother said, Let the curse come upon me, my son only\\nobey my voice, and do as I have said.\\nThen Jacob went and brought two kids to his mother and she\\nmade savory meat, as his father loved. And Rebekah took some beautiful\\ngarments which belonged to her eldest son, Esau, which were with her in\\nthe house, and put them upon Jacob, her younger son. And she covered his\\nhands and his neck with the skins of the kids of the goats; so that his\\nhands and his neck might feel hairy, like those of his brother Esau.\\nWhen all this was done, Rebekah put into Jacob s hand the savory\\nmeat and the bread which she had prepared\\nAnd he came to his father and said, My father. And Isaac\\nanswered, Here am I; who are you, my son?", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0071.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "52 JACOB AND ESAU.\\nAnd Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your first-born. I have\\ndone as you bade me. Arise, I pray you, and eat of my venison, that you\\nmay bless me.\\nAnd Isaac said unto his son, How is it that you have found it so\\nquickl} r my son\\nJacob replied, Because the Lord your God brought it to me.\\nI wonder Jacob was not afraid to say this, and to use God s name\\nwhen he was sinning against God, and against his poor old father, and\\nEsau. And is it not sad to see how he went on telling one untruth after\\nanother? Poor old Isaac could not see, but he could hear and he did not\\nthink it sounded like Esau s voice. He was not quite satisfied yet, so he\\nsaid, Come near, I pray you, that I may feel you, my son, whether you\\nare indeed my very son Esau or not.\\nAnd Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him and\\nsaid, The voice is Jacob s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau\\nAnd Isaac did not find out who it was, because his hands were hairy\\nas his brother Esau s hands. But once more he asked him, Are you my\\nvery son Esau?\\nAnd again Jacob lied to his father, and said, I am.\\nThen Isaac said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son s\\nvenison, that my soul may bless you.\\nAnd Jacob brought it to his father, and he did eat; and he brought\\nhim wine, and he drank. And his father Isaac said to him, Come near\\nnow, and kiss me, my son\\nAnd Jacob came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of\\nhis raiment (you remember, Jacob was wearing Esau s garments, and most\\nlikely they were perfumed, as was often the case in those countries), and\\nhe blessed him and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a\\nfield which the Lord has blessed therefore God give you of the dew of\\nheaven, so that the earth may bring forth abundantly for you, and that\\nyou may have plenty of corn and wine. Let people serve you, and nations\\nbow down to you be lord over your brethren, and let your mother s sons\\nbow down to you. May God punish every one who injures you, and may\\nhe bless all those who do you good. This was the blessing.\\nBut Isaac had forgotten that God had said, The elder shall serve\\nthe younger. Though he was really blessing Jacob, he thought he was\\nblessing Esau and such words as these, Be lord over your brothers, and", "height": "3247", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0072.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "JACOB AND ESAU.\\n53\\nlet your mother s sons bow down to you, should never have been spoken\\nto Esau, for it was against God s will.\\nWell, it came to pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of bless-\\ning Jacob, and Jacob was\\nscarcely gone out from the\\npresence of Isaac his father,\\nthat Hsau his brother came\\nin from his hunting. And\\nhe also had made savory\\nmeat, and brought it unto\\nhis father and he said\\nunto him, Let my father\\narise, and eat of his son s\\nvenison, that your soul\\nmay bless me.\\nAnd Isaac his father\\nsaid to him, Who are you?\\nAnd he answered\\nI am your sou, your first-\\nborn, Esau.\\nThen Isaac trem-\\nbled very exceedingly, and\\nsaid, Who? where is he\\nwho has hunted venison,\\nand brought it to me, and\\nI have eaten of all before\\nyou. came, aud have blessed\\nhim yes, and he shall be\\nblessed.\\nWhen Esau heard\\nthe words of his father, he JACOB OBTAINING THE BLESSING FROM ISAAC.\\ncried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless\\nme, even me also, O my father!\\nAnd Isaac said, Your brother came slily, aud has taken away\\nyour blessing.\\nAnd Esau felt exceedingly angry with Jacob, and said, Is he not\\nrightly named Jacob for he has stepped into my place these two times", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0073.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "54 JACOB AND ESAU.\\nhe took away my birthright and, behold, now he has taken away my\\nblessing. But have you not kept a blessing for me\\nAnd Isaac answered and said unto Bsau, Behold, I have made him\\nyour lord, and all his brethren have I given him for servants; and with\\ncorn and wine have I supplied him and what shall I do now unto you,\\nmy son\\nAnd Esau said unto his father, Have you but one blessing, my\\nfather? bless me, even me, also, O my father! And Bsau lifted up his\\nvoice and wept.\\nThen Isaac, his father, answered and said unto him, Behold, your\\ndwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven\\nfrom above. You shall have an abundance of the good things of this\\nworld, and you shall live by your sword, and shall serve your brother; but\\nit shall come to pass that, when you shall have the power, you shall set\\nyourself free from him again.\\nSome one had overheard what Bsau said when he threatened to kill\\nTiis brother, and had told Rebekah about it. She was greatly distressed,\\nand sent at once to call Jacob, her younger son, and said to him,\\nBehold, your brother Bsau is planning to kill you one day. Now\\ntherefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, go quickly and secretly to\\nLabaii my brother, who lives in Haran and stay with him a short time\\ntill your brother s fuiy turn away until your brother s anger turn away\\nfrom you, and he forgets that which you have done to him: then I will\\nsend and fetch you home again. Why should I be deprived of you both\\nin one day?\\nRebekah did not tell Isaac what Bsau was going to do perhaps\\nshe thought it would distress him too much. But she gave him another\\nreason for wanting to send Jacob away to her own country. So she said\\nto her husband,\\nI am weary of my life because of the daughters of Canaan. If\\nTacob should take a wife of the daughters of the land, as Bsau has done,\\nit will distress me all my life long.\\nIsaac felt that Rebekah was right in what she said, and that Jacob\\nought to be sent away to his own relations far off, that he might choose\\na wife from the family of Shem. So he called Jacob and blessed him, and\\ngave him a solemn charge, or order, and said to him,\\nYou shall not take a wife of the maidens of Canaan but arise,", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0074.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "JACOB AND ESAU.\\n55\\ngo to Haran, to the house of your mother s father, and take one of the\\ndaughters of Laban, your mother s brother, to be your wife. And God\\nAlmighty bless you, and make you prosperous, and increase you, that you\\nmay be a multitude of\\npeople and give you the\\nblessing of Abraham, to\\nyou and to your children\\nalso, that you may inherit\\nthe land which God gave\\nto Abraham.\\nThen Isaac and Re-\\nbekah sent away Jacob\\nand he went out from Beer-\\nsheba and took the way\\ntoward Haran.\\nSo Jacob set out on\\nhis journey and I have\\nno doubt he felt very\\nlonely and sad as he left\\nhis old home, where he\\nhad lived quietly and con-\\ntentedly for so many years.\\nHe was no longer a young\\nman, for he was seventy-\\nfive years old and I dare\\nsay he thought it hard\\nto be obliged to begin a\\nnew life all by himself.\\nAh if he had not deceived\\nhis father, and cheated his\\nbrother, he would never Jacob s vision OF THE ANGELS.\\nhave been sent away like this it was the consequence of his own sin.\\nAnd now the day had come to an end. The sun had set and he\\ncould not sea his way any further that evening so he determined to rest\\nfor the night in the place to which he had come. He took a stone, and\\narranged it for a pillow, and then he lay down to sleep. It was not a\\nvery pleasant bed, but he had a very sweet and wonderful dream there.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0075.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "56 JACOB AND KSAU.\\nThis was his dream. He saw a ladder set up on the earth, and the\\ntop of it reached to heaven and behold, the angels of-God were ascending\\nand descending (that is, going up and down) on it. And behold, the\\nLord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham, and the\\nGod of Isaac the land on which you are lying I will give to you and to\\nyour children and your family shall be as the dust of the earth for\\nnumber, and shall spread every way to the west, and to the east, and to\\nthe north, and to the south and in you and in your children shall all the\\nfamilies of the earth be blessed. And, behold, I am with you, and will\\nkeep you in all places where you are going, and will bring you again into\\nthis land; for I will not leave you until I have done that which I have\\nspoken to you of.\\nWhen Jacob awcke out of his sleep, he said, Surely the Lord is\\nin this place, and I knew it not! And he was afraid. I think, when\\nhe felt the nearness of God to him, he then saw his own sinfulness, and\\nhow unworthy he was of so much loving-kindness and favor. He said,\\nHow dreadful is this place This is none other but the house of God,\\nand this is the gate of heaven.\\nAnd Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he\\nhad put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on the\\ntop of it. He had nothing else to give to God as a thank-offering, so he\\npoured upon this stone the oil that he had brought for his journey. And\\nhe called the name of the place Beth-el, which means The house of God.\\nIt took Jacob a great many days to get to his journey s end, for it\\nwas about four hundred miles from Beer-sheba to Haran; but at last he\\ncame into the land of the people of the east.\\nAnd he looked, and behold there was a well in the field, and lo,\\nthree flocks of sheep were lying by it. This was the well to which all\\nthe cattle were brought for water, but just now a great stone was upon\\nthe well s mouth.\\nYou remember, I have already explained to you that in those hot\\ncountries wells are very valuable, for there is often a great scarcity of\\nwater. Sometimes the wells are locked up or fastened, and are or n y\\nopened once or twice a day, when all the flocks are gathered together; for\\nit is necessary to be very careful that there should be no waste of water.\\nSometimes the wells are covered over with a large stoue, or with boards,\\nto keep the dust and sand from drifting in.", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0076.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "JACOB AND ESAU.\\n5?\\nWhen Jacob saw the men waiting beside the well with their sheep,\\nhe said to them, My brethren, where do you come from\\nTo this question they answered, We come from Haran.\\nJacob must have felt very glad to hear this, for Haran was the very\\ntown to which he was going.\\nThen he asked them, Do\\nyou know Laban, whose\\ngrandfather was Nahor,\\nAbraham s brother\\nYes, they replied,\\nwe know him.\\nIs he well? Ja-\\ncob asked.\\nAnd they said He\\nis well and, behold, here\\nis Rachel his daughter\\ncoming with the sheep.\\nAnd Jacob said, It\\nis not time that the cattle\\nshould be gathered together\\nyet why do you not give\\nwater to the sheep, and\\nthen go and feed them\\nAnd they answered,\\nWe must not draw any\\nwater until all the flocks are\\ngathered together, and till\\nthey roll the stone away\\nfrom the well then we may\\ndraw water for the sheep.\\nWhile Jacob was\\ntalking with the men, Ra- J ACOB AT THE WELL 0F haran.\\nchel came with her father s sheep, for she kept them. And it came to pass when\\nJacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban his mother s brother, and the sheep\\nof Laban his mother s brother, that Jacob went near and rolled away the stone\\nfrom the well. Then he drew water for all Laban s flock. It was hard work\\nto draw so much water but Jacob was glad to do it for Rachel, to help her.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0077.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "58 JACOB AND ESAU.\\nAnd Jacob kissed Rachel and he lifted up his voice and wept. It\\nwas not that he was unhappy now that was not why- he wept they were\\ntears of thankfulness and gladness. He was thankful to God for bringing\\nhim safely on his journey, and guiding him to the right place; and he\\nwas so glad to see one of his relations again for, you know, Rachel was\\nhis cousin.\\nAnd Jacob told Rachel that he was Rebekah s son, and that Laban\\nwas his uncle and she ran and told her father.\\nAnd it came to pass when Laban heard that Jacob, his sister s son,\\nhad come, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him,\\nand brought him to his house. And he told Laban all that had happened\\nto him.\\nAnd Laban said, Surely you are of our family and belong to us.\\nNow Laban had two daughters the name of the elder was Leah,\\nand the name of the younger was Rachel. And Rachel was very beauti-\\nful, and Jacob loved her very much and he wanted her to be his wife, so\\nthat she might be his companion always. So he said to Laban, I will\\nbe your servant for seven years, if you will give me Rachel, your younger\\ndaughter, to be my wife.\\nAnd Laban answered, Yes, I will do as you wish so stay\\nwith me.\\nAnd Jacob served Laban very faithfully and well for seven years\\nand it seemed to him only as a few days, because he loved her so much.\\nAnd at the end of the seven years he said to Laban, Give me my wife,\\nfor I have served out my full time.\\nThen Laban made a great feast a marriage feast and invited all\\nhis friends and neighbors to it. And the bride was covered with a long\\nveil from her head to her feet, which quite hid her face from every one\\nand after the wedding she was taken to Jacob s tent. Then the veil was\\ntaken off, and behold, it was Leah to whom he had been married, and not\\nto Rachel whom he loved.\\nJacob was very angry at having been so cheated, and he went to\\nLaban, and said, What is this that you have done unto me Did I not\\nserve you for Rachel Why then have you deceived me\\nAnd Laban said, It is not the custom in our country that the\\nyounger should be married before the elder but I will give Rachel also\\nto be your wife, if you will be my servant for seven more years.", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0078.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "JACOB AND ESAU. 5J*\\nAnd iiow Jacob was beginning to think longingly of bis old borne\\nin Canaan, and to wish to return there, and to see his parents once more.\\nHe had finished his term of service, and had been Laban s shepherd for\\nfourteen years and so, as soon as Joseph was born, Jacob said to Laban,\\nSend me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my\\ncountry. Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served\\nyou and let me go for you know how useful I have been to you.\\nBut Laban did not want Jacob to go away. He found him such a\\nfaithful seivant and son-in-law. that he felt as if he could not spare him.\\nOne day as Jacob was taking care of Laban s flocks, God spoke to\\nhim, and said, Return unto the land of your fathers, and to your family,\\nand I will be with yon.\\nAnd Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field where he\\nwas and when they came he said to them, I see your father is not as\\nfriendly to me as he used to be but the God of my fathers has been with\\nme. And you know that with all my power I have served your father;\\nand your father has deceived me, and has changed my wages ten times\\nbut God would not let him hurt me. For he has taken care of me, and\\nit is he who has taken the cattle of your father and given them to\\nme. If your father said, The speckled shall be your wages, then all the\\ncattle that were born were speckled and if he said, The striped cattle\\nshall be your wages, then all that were born were striped. So this\\nwas God s doing.\\nThen Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels\\nand he carried away all the cattle that belonged to him, and all the goods\\nwhich he had gotten in that country, to go to Isaac his father in the\\nland of Canaan.\\nHe did not tell Laban he was going away, because he could not\\ntrust him. Laban at that time had gone to shear his sheep and Rachel\\ntook the opportunity of going into her father s house and stealing some\\nimages or idols which belonged to her father. But Jacob did not know\\nwhat she had done.\\nSo he fled with his two wives and his children, and his men-servants\\nand maid-servants, and his flocks and herds and he passed over the river,\\nand set his face to go toward Canaan.\\nThree days passed away before Laban knew that Jacob had gone\\nand when he found that he had taken his family and all his goods, he was", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0079.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "60\\nJACOB AND ESAU.\\nexceedingly angry. He missed his images too, and thought that Jacob had\\nstolen them so he took some men with him, and set out in great haste,\\nand with very unkind, angry feelings in his heart, to overtake Jacob.\\nFor six da}^s Laban and his party journeyed on without coming up\\nto him but that night\\n(the sixth night) God came\\nto Laban in a dream, and\\nsaid to him,\\nTake care that you\\ndo net speak to Jacob\\neither good or bad. God\\nmeant that Laban was not\\nto try to persuade Jacob\\nto go back to Haran,\\neither by kind words or\\nby threats.\\nNext day Laban\\nwent on with his journey\\nagain, and then at last\\nhe met Jacob, who had\\npitched his tents, and was\\nresting his family and his\\nflocks after their long\\njourney. They had been\\ntravelling for six days,\\nand this was the seventh\\nday of rest. Laban was\\nlonging to say bitter\\nwords to Jacob, and to\\ndo him some unkindness\\nbut he did not dare to\\nLABAN OVERTAKING JACOB. disobey God.\\nAfter this, Jacob went on his journey again with a thankful heart,\\nbecause God had saved him from Laban s anger, and had made them to\\npart friends. And as he went on his way the angels of God met him. We\\ndc not know with what appearance they came, but Jacob knew they were\\nthe angels of God, and he said, This is God s host (or army).", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0080.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "JACOB AND ESAU. 61\\nHow wonderful was God s love and kindness to Jacob And how\\noften he gave him fresh tokens of his unceasing care and watchfulness\\nover him By the angels that he had seen in his dream, ascending and\\ndescending upon the ladder, God had taught him that his angels were\\nalways about him. But now he was permitted to see them, not in a dream,\\nbut with his own eyes, face to face.\\nIs it not sweet to think that God and his angels are also with us\\ncontinually It is written in the Psalms, The angel of the Lord\\nencampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. And\\nthe Lord Jesus said, Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end\\nof the world.\\nHow careful it should make us, both in what we say and in what\\nwe do, when we remember that God s eye is ever upon us\\nAs Jacob journeyed on, he was now coming to a part of the country\\nwhere his brother Esau lived for Esau had gone away from Beer-sheba, and\\nwas not now living near his father Isaac s tents. And Jacob was afraid\\nto meet his brother, for he did not know if he had forgiven him about the\\nbirthright, and the blessing, of which Jacob had robbed him. So he sent\\nsome men with a very humble message to his brother.\\nJacob went amongst his cattle and put apart a great number of them\\nas a present for Esau, his brother. There were two hundred and twenty\\ngoats, and two hundred and twenty sheep, thirty camels (each with its\\nyoung one), forty cows and ten bulls, and thirty asses. All these animals he\\ngave into the care of his servants, every drove by themselves; and he said to\\nhis servants, Pass over before me, and put a space between drove and drove.\\nAnd he commanded the foremost (those that went in front) saying,\\nWhen Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, saying, Who is your\\nmaster and where are you going and to whom do these cattle bslong\\nthen you shall say, They are your servant Jacob s; it is a present sent\\nunto my lord Esau and, behold, also he is behind us.\\nAnd Jacob commanded the men that had care of the second and the\\nthird droves, and all that followed after them, to say the same words.\\nAnd he said to them, This is the way you shall speak unto Esau when\\nyou find him. And say, moreover, Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us.\\nFor Jacob said, I will make him feel kindly towards me because\\nof the present that goes before me, and afterwards I will see his face\\nperhaps he will be friendly with me.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0081.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "62\\nJACOB AND ESAU.\\nSo tiic present went over before him; and lie himself remained\\nbehind in that place that night. And in the night he rose up and took\\nhis two wives, and his two women-servants, and his eleven sons, and all\\nthat he had, and sent them over the brook for greater safety.\\nAnd Jacob was left\\nalone. I think he must\\nhave stayed behind by him-\\nself that night that he\\nmight again pray to God\\nwith all his heart to be\\nkept in safety, and that\\nBsau might not hurt either\\nhis wives or his children.\\nHe had done all that he\\ncould think of to make his\\nbrother friendly to him\\nbut he knew that unless\\nGod helped him all his own\\nefforts would be useless.\\nAnd while he was\\nthere praying to God alone\\nin the darkness, a man\\ncame to him and wrestled,\\nor struggled, with him.\\nHe looked like a man, but\\nit was an angel yet not\\na created angel, but even\\nthe Angel of the Cove-\\nnant, Jehovah Jesus him-\\nself, in the form of a man.\\nHappy, blessed Jacob!\\nAnd the Angel wres-\\nJACOB WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL.\\ntied with him until the dawning of the day. The struggle lasted a long\\ntime, but Jacob would not let go his hold. Then the Angel said to Jacob,\\nLet me go, for the day is breaking.\\nAnd Jacob said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.\\nAnd the Angel said, What is your name?", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0082.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "JACOB AND ESAU. 63\\nAud lie answered, Jacob.\\nAnd he said, Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but\\nIsrael (that means a prince of God for as a prince you have\\npower with God and with men, and have prevailed.\\nThen Jacob asked him, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.\\nBut the Angel said, Why is it that you ask after my name\\nAnd he blessed Jacob there.\\nAnd he touched the hollow of Jacob s thigh, so that he became\\nlame and Jacob was always lame after that to the day of his death. Do\\nyou think he was sorry and pitied himself for his lameness\\nOh no. He felt how much honor had been put upon him, and he\\nwas full of gratitude that his life had been preserved in that struggle.\\nJacob had now the constant memory, every day, of the wonderful love and\\ncondescension of him who came afterwards to our earth, to be our dear\\nand blessed Saviour and Redeemer. Bvery day his lameness would\\nremind him of that strange night when he wrestled with the angel Jeho-\\nvah till the dawning of the day.\\nAnd Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, or The Face of\\nGod for he said, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.\\nWhen the sun had risen, Jacob went on again with his company.\\nAnd he lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Hsau came, and with\\nhim four hundred men. Then Jacob quickly arranged his party, and\\ndivided the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maid-servants.\\nAnd he put the servants and their children first and Leah and her\\nchildren after; and Rachel and Joseph last of all.\\nAnd Jacob passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground\\nseven times, until he came near to his brother. Hsau forgot his anger, and\\nran to meet him embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him.\\nWhen the twin-brothers saw each other again after twenty long\\nyears of absence, all unkindness was forgotten. Hsau had left his home\\nintending to fight with Jacob but God had touched his heart, and now\\nnothing but kind words passed between them. And Hsau lifted up his\\neyes and saw the women and the children and he said to Jacob,\\nWho are these with you\\nJacob answered, These are the children that God has graciously\\ngiven to your servant.\\nThen the maid-servants came near, they and their children, and they", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0083.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "64\\nJACOB AND ESAU.\\nbowed themselves. And Leah also came near with her children, and they\\nbowed themselves; and after, came Joseph near, and Rachel, and they\\nbowed themselves.\\nAnd Esan said, What is the meaning of all those cattle that I met?\\nJacob answered and\\nsaid, They are a present\\nto my lord.\\nAnd Esau said, 1\\nhave enough, my brother;\\nkeep all the cattle for\\nyourself.\\nBut Jacob said, No,\\nI pray you, if now I have\\nfound grace in your sight,\\nthen receive my present\\nat my hand for I have\\nseen your face, and you\\nhave been pleased with\\nme. Take, I pray you,\\nmy present that is brought\\nto you because God has\\nbeen gracious to me, and\\nbecause I have enough.\\nAnd Jacob urged\\nhim so much that L^au\\ntook it.\\nThen Esau said to\\nhis brother, Let us now\\ntake our journey together,\\nand I will go on first.\\nBut Jacob answered,\\nMEETING OF JACOB AND ESAU. a My lord y(m knQW that\\nthe children are very young, and that I have a great many little lambs\\nand kids and calves and if we were to drive them too fast, they would\\ndie. I pray you, my lord, to go on first before your servant and I will\\nfollow softly after, according as the cattle and the children are able to bear,\\nuntil I come unto my lord to Seir.", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0084.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "JACOB AND ESAU.\\nAnd Esau said, Let me then leave some of my men with you, to\\nprotect you.\\nBut Jacob did not need his brother s men of war to guard him. He\\nknew that God had promised to take care of him, and that God s angels\\nwere about his path; so\\nhe said to Esau, Indeed\\nI do not need your men;\\nonly let me find grace in\\nthe sight of my lord.\\nSo Esau went back\\nto his own home at Seir, and\\nJacob journeyed quietly\\non, till he came to a place\\ncalled Succoth. There he\\npitched his tents, and made\\nbooths, or sheds, for his\\ncattle. But he did not\\nstay long there, for he\\nwanted to get back to the\\nland of promise. So after\\nresting for a lktle time,\\nhe went on again, till he\\ncame, in peace and safety,\\nto the city called Shechem,\\nwhich is in the land of\\nCanaan.\\nIt was not wise of\\nJacob to pitch his tents\\nso near to one of the\\nwicked cities of Canaan.\\nWe know what trouble it\\nbrought upon the family MASSACRE OF THE SHECHEMiTES.\\nof just Lot when he went to live in Sodom, because some of his children\\nlearned the evil ways of the people of the city. And Jacob suffered, too,\\nfrom the same cause. Jacob had a daughter whose name was Dinah and\\nshe went out to see the daughters of the land -to visit them, and to make\\nfriends with them.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0085.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "66 JACOB AND ESAU.\\nDinah was led into wrong-doing by her godless companions and her\\nnew friends in Shechem. And when her brothers heard about it, they were\\nso grieved and angry that two of them took their swords, and went into\\nthe city, and killed every man that was there and they took all the\\nwomen to be slaves. Then they took away all the sheep and o en and\\nasses that belonged to the people of Shechem, and they took away all the\\nriches that they found in their houses.\\nJacob was greatly grieved at what his proud and angry sons had\\ndone and he was afraid, too, that the other people of the land would come\\nand fight with him, because so many of their family were killed. But\\nGod kept him from this danger, yet he would not let him remain any\\nlonger in that place.\\nThen Jacob said unto his household, and to every one that was with\\nhim, Put away all the strange gods that are among you. And wash\\nyourselves, and change your garments and let us arise, and go up to\\nBeth-el. And I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in\\nthe day of my distress, and who was with me in the way that I went.\\nWhen Jacob had commanded his household to put away all their\\nstrange gods, they brought to him all their idols, and all the earrings that\\nwere in their ears that had on them the figures of the idols. And Jacob\\nhid them. He buried them under an oak tree that was near the city, that\\nthey might never be found again.\\nThen Jacob took up his tents, and with all his family and all his\\ncattle he journeyed on towards Beth-el. And -God made all the people that\\nwere in the cities round about them to be in terror and afraid, so that they\\ndid not dare to pursue after the sons of Jacob. And in this way God kept\\nhis chosen people safely, till they arrived in peace at Beth-el.", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0086.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.\\nOLD Jacob had many sons, but best of all he loved Joseph, whose\\nmother was Rachel. Some of the elder sons acted wickedly and\\ncaused their father great sorrow, but Joseph was always obedient\\nand good, and being much younger than the others, born when Jacob was-\\ngrowing old, and the son of Rachel, who had been always loved so dearly,.\\nhe was anxiously watched over by his father, who, among other marks of\\nlove, gave him, when he was about seventeen years old, a handsome coat\\nof many colors, in which no doubt he looked very gay.\\nThis present made his brothers very angry they were already\\njealous of him because he was clever, and because his father and mother\\nwere so proud of him, and, being spiteful, they never spoke kindly to him.\\nas brothers should do, but hated him, and made up their minds to do him\\nsome injury if they could.\\nJoseph had strange dreams, and as he was very open and truthful,\\nand loved his brothers, although they were so unkind to him, he told them\\nwhat he had dreamed, not thinking it would offend them or make them\\nmore jealous. Once he dreamed that they were all working together in\\nthe corn-field, as they often were, binding up the sheaves at harvest-time.\\nThe sheaf that he bound stood up in the middle and those which his\\nbrothers bound stood round, and the strange part of the dream was that\\ntheir sheaves bowed to his.\\nWhen he told this dream, his brothers were very angry, and asked\\nhim if he really supposed that he would ever reign over them and they\\nwould bow to him. Joseph, perhaps, had no idea that the dream meant\\nthat, and was sorry that his brothers should think any the worse of him\\nbecause he had told them. But they hated him even more when he told\\nthem another dream which he had shortly afterwards. In that dream it\\nwas not sheaves of wheat which bowed to his sheaf, but th? sun, moon,\\nand eleven stars seemed to be bowing to himself.\\nThis dream seemed so strange and wonderful that he told it not only\\nto his brothers, but to his father, Jacob, who was displeased, for he thought\\nthat the sun and moon might mean himself and Joseph s mother, and the\\neleven stars the brothers, for there were eleven besides Joseph, ten older,\\nand one, little Benjamin, Rachel s baby.\\n67", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0087.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "68 JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.\\nNo doubt Jacob supposed that the lad thought too much of himself,\\naud that made him dream that he was a much greater person than any of\\nthe rest of the family but he could not forget the dream the Bible says\\nhe observed the saying, that is, remembered it, and when Joseph came\\nto be a very great man, as we shall see he did, his father, we can well\\nbelieve, thought of the strange dream about the sun and moon and stars.\\nAll the brothers were shepherds, for flocks of sheep and goats were\\na great part of their father s wealth, and they led the flocks to feed some-\\ntimes a long distance from home. Joseph did not always go with them,\\nhis father aud mother, perhaps, not liking him to be long away from them;\\nbut one day, soon after Joseph had had the last dream, his father told him\\nto go after his brothers, who had gone with the sheep to a place named\\nShechem, and bring him back word whether they were all well, and the\\nsheep properly cared for.\\nJoseph went to Shechem, but he could not find his brothers, who, he\\nwas told, had gone farther away, to Dothan; there he saw them in the\\ndistance with the sheep, and hastened towards them. They saw him\\ncoming, and hating him so much as they did, they thought there was a\\nchance of doing him some mischief, and as they were so far away from\\nhome, their father would not know of it. They had not forgotten or for-\\ngiven the dreams in which they had appeared to pay him such respect,\\nand when they saw Joseph coming towards them, pleased to see them after\\nsearching for them so long, instead of welcoming him as a brother, some\\nof them said, Here comes this dreamer; let us kill him. We can put\\nhim into a pit, and tell our father that a wild beast has eaten him then\\nwe shall have no more of his dreams.\\nThe elder brother, Reuben, however, was not so wicked as the rest,\\nand could not make up his mind to kill his young brother. It is sad to\\nthink that any of them should have wished to hurt so kind-hearted and\\ngood a youth as Joseph was, and their own brother, too; but jealousy\\nmakes people commit very gieat sins.\\nReuben, perhaps, had not courage enough to take Joseph s part\\nopenly, but he thought that if he could get him away from his cruel\\nbrothers, he might be able to take him back, secretly but safely, to their\\nfather Jacob. Do not let us kill him, he said, but if we put him into\\nthe pit in the wilderness, he will never trouble us again, and we shall not\\nhave shed his blood.", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0088.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN. 69\\nThe other brothers agreed to this, trying to make themselves believe\\nthat they should not be guilty of his death, if they did not actually kill\\nhim with blows, but only left him to starve in a deep pit, from which it\\ndid not seem possible he could escape. They took the advice of Reuben,,\\nand, having first taken off the handsome coat which Jacob had given\\nJoseph, threw him into the deep pit, not heeding the cries for mercy of\\ntheir poor young brother.\\nHard-hearted, indeed, they must have been, for they sat down to eat\\nnear the pit where they had left Joseph to die. They little thought that\\ntheir cruelty would be the means of Joseph becoming a great man and a\\nruler over many, to whom they would some day come to beg for bread;\\nbut so it was, and he who was left to starve in the pit, while they were\\neating, was saved by the power of God, to give them food.\\nIn those days, as now, merchants in the Eastern lands used to make\\nlong journeys, with camels laden with precious articles, from one part of\\nthe country to another; and while the wicked brothers were resting, there\\ncame towards them a number of Ishmaelites, with camels bearing spices and\\nother things of great value which they had bought in Gilead, and were\\ntaking to Egypt. Judah, the fourth of Jacob s sons, was greedy as well as\\ncruel, and the sight of so much wealth made him think that, perhaps, the\\nmerchants wanted a slave, and if they would buy Joseph he would be as\\nmuch out of his brothers way as if he were dead for if taken to Egypt,\\nthere would be little chance of his coming back, and the price given for\\nhim could be divided among his brethren.\\nHe, therefore, spoke to the others, except Reuben, who had gone\\naway, intending, perhaps, not to return until his brothers had left the\\nplace, when he could pull Joseph out of the pit and take him home, and\\nthey agreed to sell the lad, if the merchants would buy him.\\nThe Ishmaelites, or Midianites, as they are also named, were\\nwilling to give twenty pieces of silver for Joseph, who was taken from the\\npit and given to them. His brothers did not care whether he would be\\ntreated well or ill. It might be that the merchants would beat him, for\\nslaves have very often been beaten by cruel masters perhaps his life would\\nbe made so wretched that he might almost wish he had been left to die in\\nthe pit. Cruel Judah and the others had no pity for him, nor for their\\nfather, who would feel such grief at the loss of his dear son.\\nWhen Reuben came back he found the pit empty, and gave way to", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0089.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "70 JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.\\nhis sorrow, for perhaps he loved his young brother, and being the eldest,\\nknew that his father would expect that he would take care of him. All\\nJudah and the others thought of was how they could deceive Jacob. To\\ndo so, they killed a young goat and dipped Joseph s handsome coat in\\nthe blood. When they\\nreached home, they showed\\nthe coat, torn and stained\\nwith blood, to their old\\nfather, and said, This\\nhave we found we know\\nnot whether it be thy\\nson s coat or no. Jacob\\nknew it well. It was the\\ncoat of many colors which\\nhis dear child had worn\\nwhen, full of life and hap-\\npiness, he had left home\\nto follow his brothers.\\nThe blood, the rents,\\nmade him think that his\\nson had indeed been set\\nupon and killed by some\\nwild beast, and that he\\nshould never see his dar-\\nling again. For many\\ndays he gave himself up\\nto his great grief; he had\\nno desire to live, and, when*\\nthose about him tried to\\ncomfort him, could only\\nsay, I will go down into\\nJOSEPH sold by HIS BRETHREN. the grave unto my son\\nmourning. His sons dared not now tell him the truth, that no doubt\\nJoseph was yet alive, and might escape from slavery and return but they\\npretended to comfort him, while deceiving him.\\nThe merchants reached Egypt, then a very great country, ruled\\nover by a famous king, who bore the title of Pharaoh. They sold their", "height": "3239", "width": "2287", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0090.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN. 71\\nspices and the other valuable things with which their camels were loaded,\\nand then they thought of selling the lad whom they had bought of the\\nmen who were keeping the sheep and goats near the pit in the wilderness.\\nRich men in Egypt kept slaves in their houses to wait upon them, and a\\nmaster was soon found for Joseph, who was clever and had pleasing manners.\\nHe was bought by Potiphar, one of the chief officers of Pharaoh,\\nand captain of the guard, a rich and powerful man in the kingdom. He\\nfound how truthful and industrious Joseph was, and trusted him greatly,\\nso that in a short time he made him his steward, or master over the other\\nservants, and gave him the care of his house and riches. God had watched\\nover and taken care of Joseph; had saved him from a cruel death, and had\\nprovided for him a new home, where were no envious and cruel brothers,\\nhut a kind master who loved and trusted him. And, for his sake, the\\nLord blessed the house of the Egyptian captain, and all that he had in\\nthe fields.\\nNo doubt Joseph often thought of his father and of his little brother,\\nwhom he had left a motherless baby, for Rachel had died soon after the\\nchild was born, and perhaps he thought the day might come when he\\nshould again see them but he knew that his duty now was to serve his\\nmaster faithfully, and take care of the riches with which he was trusted.\\nDoing his duty well, he was happy, and grew up a handsome young man,\\nadmired and beloved by all.\\nPotiphar had a wicked wife, who tried to make Joseph deceive his\\nmaster, and because he would not, in her anger and spite, she made false\\ncharges against him, and told her husband that he had been acting\\nwickedly. Potiphar believed his wife, and, thinking that the young man\\nwhom he had so greatly trusted had deceived him, he put him in the\\nprison where those who had been guilty of great offences were punished.\\nIt would almost have seemed now that Joseph was ruined his master\\nno longer trusted him, but had made him a prisoner; he, who a few days\\nbefore had been so powerful in Potiphar s house, who had been looked up\\nto by all the servants as the chief man in the place, next to Potiphar him-\\nself, was in a wretched prison, with no companions but those who had\\nbeen guilty of great crimes, and some of whom were soon to meet a cruel\\ndeath. But God did not desert Joseph even then. We may be sure the\\nyoung man had not forgotten what he had learned in his father s tent,\\nthat the Lord watched over all who prayed to him, and trusted in him,", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0091.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "72 JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.\\nand that now, in his great trouble, he prayed earnestly to the God of\\nhis fathers, who had done so much for Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.\\nThe Bible tells us that the Lord was with Joseph, and showed\\nhim mere)-, and that being so, no doubt the young prisoner was happier\\nthan lie would have been if he had been Pharaoh himself. As he had at\\nfirst found favor with Potiphar, so now he found a friend in the chief\\njailor of the prison, who gave him the charge of the others who were\\nthere, and trusted him with the care of the place himself, looking not to\\nanything that was under his hand. And here, again, as in the house of\\nPotiphar, the blessing of the Lord made everything that Joseph did to prosper.\\nIn the prison with Joseph were two of the servants of the king, the\\nchief butler and the chief baker, who had been guilty of some offence\\nwhich had made Pharaoh angry. They were put under Joseph s care, and\\nsoon looked upon him as a friend. One night both these prisoners dreamed,,\\nand in the morning they were very sad, for their dreams troubled them.\\nThey each thought they had been waiting on the king as they used to wait\\non him, and when they woke, we may suppose they felt bitterly how\\nchanged was their state, no longer happy men in a king s house, but poor\\nprisoners in a dungeon.\\nJoseph, in his kind way, asked them the cause of their grief, and,\\nremembering his own dreams, and the manner in which they had been\\nexplained, believed that the Lord would enable him to tell these poor men\\nwhat their dreams meant. They were glad to find a friend, and told him\\nall. The chief butler had dreamed that he saw a vine with three branches,\\nand buds and blossoms which became rich clusters of grapes, which he\\npressed into the cup of the king, who took it into his hand.\\nThe chief baker had dreamed that he bore on his head three baskets,\\nand the top one had baked meats which he intended for the king, but\\nbirds came and ate them out of the baskets. By the power God had given\\nhim, Joseph knew what these dreams meant, and he told the chief butler\\nthat the three branches meant three days, and that within that time he\\nwould be taken out of prison and restored to his place in Pharaoh s house.\\nAnd, said Joseph, think of me when it shall be w T ell with thee. He\\ntold the baker that the three dishes meant three days, and within three\\ndays he would be hanged, and birds would eat his flesh.\\nJoseph was right in his explanation of the dreams; for three days\\nafterwards the exact time he had mentioned was Pharaoh s birthday, and", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0092.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN. 73\\nhe gave a feast to all his servants. The chief butler and the chief baker\\nwere allowed to be among them, and then they knew, the one to his joy,\\nthe other to his sorrow, how truly Joseph had told them what was the\\nmeaning of their dreams. The king gave the chief butler his place again,\\nand he stood by his side and filled his cup while he feasted, but the\\nchief baker was not forgiven, but was hanged as Joseph had said he would be.\\nPerhaps Joseph now thought he had made a good friend at court;\\nthat the butler, once more a favorite of the king s, would tell him about\\nthe young man who had been unjustly punished, and ask Pharaoh to\\nrelease him from prison. But the butler forgot his friend who had been\\nso kind to him for two years, and no doubt would have forgotten him\\naltogether but for a remarkable dream which the king had. He thought\\nhe was standing by the river the great river Nile which flows through\\nKgypt, and there came out of it seven fat cows they are described in the\\nBible as kine, a name for cows seldom used now which fed in a meadow.\\nPresently seven very thin, hungry-looking cows also came out of\\nthe river, and ate the fat cows. This was a strange dream, and Pharaoh\\nwas much troubled to know what it could mean, for he had a strong belief\\nthat such a dream must be intended to teach him something.\\nHis uneasiness was made greater by another dream which he had\\nafterwards, in which he saw seven good and full ears of corn, and seven\\nthin ears, blighted by the east wind. Just as the lean cows had eaten the\\nfat cows, so the thin ears of corn seemed to devour the full and ripe ears.\\nPharaoh was greatly distressed; in each dream there was the number seven,\\nand in each dream the thin and poor things destroyed and devoured those\\nwhich were fairer and richer.\\nThere were in Egypt, as there are in many countries, a number of\\nmen who thought themselves very learned, and who, by their knowledge,\\nwere able to do things that appeared wonderful and above the common\\npower of men. These magicians, as they were called, said they could explain\\nsecret things, and most of the people, the king as much as the rest,,\\nbelieved in their power. In the morning after the night in which Pharaoh\\nhad had two such strange and troubling dreams, he sent for these wise\\nmen, and, telling them what had occurred, desired them to explain the\\nmeaning.\\nBut they could not; they were obliged to say they did not know\\nwhat the cows and the ears of corn meant, and the king was only the", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0093.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "74\\nJOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.\\nmore troubled when he found that none of the wise men of his kingdom\\ncould help him to understand his dreams.\\nThe chief butler, who had so long forgotten Joseph, then remembered\\nhow his own dream and that of his fellow-servant had been explained.\\nHe knew that, although\\nthe magicians had failed,\\nthe young Hebrew in the\\nprison would be able to\\ntell the king what the\\ndreams meant; and, per-\\nhaps, wishing to gain favor\\nwith Pharaoh quite as\\nmuch as to serve Joseph,\\nhe told him of what had\\nhappened in the prison\\nand what a wonderful\\nyoung man was the He-\\nbrew who was there act-\\ning as a servant to the\\ncaptain of the guard.\\nPharaoh directly\\nsent to the prison, and\\nordered the jailer to bring\\nJoseph to the palace. The\\nprison dress was changed\\nfor better clothes, so that\\nhe might be fitter to appear\\nbefore so great a king, and\\nthen he was taken to Pha-\\nraoh, who asked him if it\\nwas true he could tell him\\nJOSEPH INTERPRETING PHARAOH S DREAMS. stnmge\\ndreams meant. Joseph answered modestly that he had not the power\\nin himself, but that God would, through him, give an answer of peace.\\nThe king then told the dreams and Joseph, taught by God, at once\\nexplained them. He showed to Pharaoh that the two dreams were alike\\nin meaning; that the cows and ears of wheat meant years; that there", "height": "3177", "width": "2255", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0094.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN. 75\\nwould be seven years of plenty in Egypt followed by seven years of famine,\\nwhen all that had been saved in the good years should be eaten up. He\\ntold Pharaoh this would surely take place, because the thing is established\\nby God.\\nHe advised the king to choose some wise and careful man, and\\nmake him the chief man in the kingdom, with power to appoint officers\\nwho should store up the corn in the years of plenty, and keep it carefully,\\nso that it might be ready to feed the people when the seven years of\\nfamine came.\\nPharaoh and the nobles saw that this was good advice, and, believing\\nthat Joseph spoke by the Spirit of God, because he spoke so wisely,\\nPharaoh chose him to be the ruler over the people. Thou shalt be over\\nmy house, and according unto thy word shall my people be ruled only in\\nthe throne will I be greater than thou.\\nHe took his ring from his hand and gave it to Joseph, had him\\ndressed in fine robes, put a chain of gold round his neck, made him ride\\nin one of the royal chariots, and bade his people bow to him as he passed.\\nNot only did he make him ruler over the land, with full power to do what\\nhe pleased, but he gave him for a wife the daughter of one of the chief\\npriests of Egypt.\\nWhat a change in the life of Joseph, the poor Hebrew lad, sold into\\nslavery by his wicked brothers, and only a few hours before a prisoner,\\nwith no hope of release! Now he was no more Joseph unjustly punished,\\nthe servant of the captain of a prison, but the most powerful man in\\nEgypt, second only in dignity to Pharaoh himself, and named, in Egyptian\\nfashion, Zaphnath-paaneah, meaning one who saves. No doubt the chief\\nbutler was very humble before him, and hoped that he would forget his\\nlong forgetfulness of his promise to help him.\\nPharaoh soon found what a wise choice he had made. Joseph was\\nnow a grown-up man, full of health and activity, wise and able as a ruler.\\nThe seven years of plenty came exactly as he said they would. There\\nwas abundance of every kind of food, and Joseph and his officers gathered\\ncorn as the sand of the sea so plentiful indeed was it that they left off\\ncounting the stores they made, for it was without number.\\nNever had been known such a harvest, and wise Joseph collected\\nlarge stores to be ready for the years of famine which he knew were\\ncoming. He was very great and very happy. We may suppose he often", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0095.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "76 JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.\\nthought about his old father, woudered if he was still alive, and whether\\nhis brothers were kiuder thau they used to be, and ever thought of him.\\nHe had two little sons of his own now, whom, we may be sure, he loved\\nas dearly as Jacob had loved himself and little Benjamin. His eldest son\\nhe named Manasseh, which meant in Hebrew, not forgotten; and to the\\nsecond he gave the name Ephraim, another Hebrew word meaning fruitful,\\nfor, said he, God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.\\nIn the midst of all his state, and powerful as he was, the good and\\nwise Joseph remembered his native land and the language which had been\\ntaught him by Jacob and his mother Rachel. He did not give his children\\nEgyptian names, but names which, in the language of his childhood,\\nshowed that he had not forgotten what he had been, and how thankful he\\nwas that he had prospered in a strange land.\\nWhen the seven fruitful years were ended there came the seven\\nyears of famine. No corn grew in all the land, and the people in their\\ndistress cried to Pharaoh for bread. Had it not been for Joseph, all in\\nEgypt would have died of hunger. There would not have been any bread\\nfor the weak old men and women, nor for the little babies. Pharaoh him-\\nself and all his great men might have died, and none of the magicians\\nwould have been wise enough to show how food could be got. But Joseph\\nhad stored up so much that now he was able to give food to all. For\\nseven years he fed all the people of the great land of Egypt, and had\\nenough besides to sell to men w r ho came from other countries, for the\\nfamine was very grievous in other places.\\nJoseph did not give the corn to the people of Egypt, but sold it to\\nthem. First he took money, then horses and cattle, and then he gave corn\\nin exchange for the land owned by the Egyptian people. He removed\\nthem from the open country to cities, where they could live without the\\ncattle he had bought. He did not take the land belonging to the priests,\\nbut gave them food, and allowed them to keep the lands which had been\\ngiven them by Pharaoh.\\nThe people had great respect for Joseph s wisdom, but perhaps they\\nthought it hard at first that he should take their land and cattle but he\\ngave the land back, with seed to sow on it, and the} were to keep for\\nthemselves four parts of all that was grown, the other being given to\\nPharaoh. That fifth part he took for the king, in payment for food in\\nthe seven years of famine.", "height": "3232", "width": "2271", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0096.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN. 77\\nWhile Joseph was thus ruling so wisely over Egypt, his father\\nJacob was alive. In the place where he dwelt the famine was felt, and\\nthere was but little food for his family and for the cattle, sheep, and goats.\\nJacob heard that in Egypt there was plenty of corn, and that the chief\\nman of the country was selling it to any who wished to buy. He therefore\\ntold his elder sons to go down to Egypt and get food, that we may live\\nand not die. He sent them all except Benjamin, his youngest, Joseph s\\nbrother, for he could not bear to part with him, and feared the dangers of\\nthe long journey. The ten brothers reached Egypt and went to Joseph to\\nask him to sell them some corn.\\nThey could not know that the great Egyptian ruler, so grand and\\npowerful, surrounded by high officers, wearing rich robes and riding in a\\nfine chariot, was the brother whom they had cast into a pit and sold to\\nthe merchants many years before but he knew them well. There was his\\neldest brother Reuben, who had sometimes been kinder to him than the\\nothers, and there was Judah who had proposed to kill him, and who had\\ntaken the lead in selling him. He remembered, too, the dreams of his\\nboyhood, and as the ten men bowed before him, he saw how they had\\nbeen fulfilled.\\nHe would not make himself known to his brothers, but desired to\\nhear from them whether his father yet lived. So he spoke roughly, and\\nsaid they were spies, come to see the nakedness of the land. They\\ndenied that they were spies, and, to show who they were, they told Joseph\\nthat they were the sons of a man in the land of Canaan, ten brothers of\\na family of twelve, of whom, said they, the youngest is this day with\\nour father, and one is not. Little did they think when they said one\\nis not, meaning Joseph, of whom they had not heard for so many years,\\nand whom perhaps they supposed to be dead, that he was at that moment\\nlistening to what they said!\\nJoseph still pretending to believe that they were spies, put them\\ninto prison for three days, and told them that, to prove that they were not\\nspies, they must bring to him their young brother, and that one of them\\nmust remain there until Benjamin came. In their trouble for they feared\\nthat nothing would make Jacob part with his youngest son whom he loved\\nso dearly they thought of their cruelty to Joseph, of his tears and prayers\\nfor mercy, and of their hard-heartedness.\\nReuben reproached the others, and reminded them how he had tried", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0097.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "78\\nJOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.\\nto protect Joseph, and they would not hear him therefore, he said, his\\nblood is required, meaning that the Lord was now punishing them for\\ntheir sin. They did not know that Joseph well understood what they said,\\nfor he had not spoken to them in the Hebrew language, but through an\\ninterpreter; but he heard\\nall, and unable to conceal\\nhis feelings .when his\\nbrothers spoke of their\\ncruelty in the wilderness,\\nhe went away and wept\\nin secret.\\nWhen he came back\\nhe again looked sternly,\\nand told them that Simeon\\nmust stay behind, but they\\nmight buy corn and go\\nback to their father, re-\\nturning with Benjamin,\\nwhen Simeon should be\\nset free. They paid for\\ncorn and loaded their\\nbut on their way\\nasses,\\nback they found that the\\nmoney each of them had\\npaid had been put back\\ninto his sack. Joseph had\\nordered this to be done,\\nfor he would not take\\nmoney for his brothers\\nfood, and in that way re-\\nturned good for evil.\\nJACOB S SONS IMPRISONED BY JOSEPH AS SPIES. They strange\\nstory to tell their father, who could not be persuaded to consent to Benjamin s\\ngoing to Egypt. In vain Reuben, the eldest, promised that he would take\\ncare of him but Jacob only said, My son shall not go down with you, for his\\nbrother is dead, and he is left alone; if mischief befall him by the way in which\\nye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0098.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN. 79\\nBut the food the brothers had brought was soon eaten, and once\\nmore they and their cattle were almost starving. Again poor, sorrowing\\nold Jacob was urged to let Benjamin go, and at last he gave way, with\\ntears, praying, God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he\\nmay send away your other brother and Benjamin.\\nWhen they reached Egypt Joseph had a feast made, and gave orders\\nthat they should dine with him. They were much afraid that he might\\nthink they had stolen the money which was found in their sacks, for they\\ndid not know that he had caused it to be put there; but he said kindly,\\nYour God, and the God of your fathers hath given you treasure in your\\nsacks I had your money.\\nHe asked them about their father; and when he saw Benjamin he\\ncould not hide his feelings, but went into his own chamber and wept for\\njoy that he had again seen his mother s son. Coming back, having\\nwashed his face so that they might not see the marks of his tears, he had\\nfood set before them, especially before Benjamin, who had five times as\\nmuch given him as any of the others.\\nThey left Egypt joyfully enough, for Simeon was with them, and\\nBenjamin was safe; but they soon had fresh cause of distress. Joseph\\nordered his steward not only again to put the money in the sacks with\\nthe food, but to put into Benjamin s sack also the silver cup out of which\\nhe himself drank, and to follow them, and when they were some distance\\non the road to charge them with taking the cup. He did so, and searched\\nthe sacks, and there, in Benjamin s sack, was found the cup.\\nThey were taken back, and then Joseph pretended to be very angry,\\nand said the one in whose sack the cup was found must remain behind\\nand be his servant, but the rest might go back. The brothers were full\\nof trouble; they felt that they dared not return to Jacob without Benjamin;\\nand Judah begged Joseph to let him go. He told him how dearly the lad\\nwas loved by his father, that the loss would kill him, and offered to stay-\\nbehind in his stead and be a slave in his place.\\nWhile he spoke Joseph s heart was full he thought of the poor old\\nfather sorrowing for the loss of his two darling sons, and he could keep\\nhis secret no longer. Sending away all his officers and guards, he wept\\naloud, and then told his brothers who he was, how he had been treated,\\nand how he had prospered in the land. It was not you, he said, that\\nsent me hither, but God.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0099.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "80\\nJOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.\\nHe bade them return and tell his father to come to him, with all\\nhis flocks and herds, and children s children, and they should have a home\\nin Goshen, a fine land, a part of Egypt. Pharaoh soon heard that Joseph\\nhad found his brothers, and was well pleased. He gave them wagons and\\ntreasure, and Joseph sent to\\nhis father asses laden with\\nthe good things of Ejjypt.\\nWhat joyful lews\\nfor Jacob, in the land of\\nCanaan although he could\\nscarcely believe it at first;\\nbut when his sons told\\nhim what Joseph had said,\\nhis spirit revived, and he\\nsaid, It is enough, Joseph\\nmy son is yet alive I will\\ngo and see him before I\\ndie. In a vision, God told\\nhim to go without fear, for\\nthe Lord would be with him,\\nand would bring him safely\\nback. So Jacob, and all that\\nwere with him, left Beer-\\nsheba and went to Goshen,\\nwhere he met Joseph.\\nAnd what a meeting\\nit must have been, the fond\\nfather seeing again his son\\nwhom he had mourned as\\ndead, and the good son\\nembracing the father whom\\nJOSEPH BECOMING KNOWN TO HIS BRETHREN. loyed SQ wdl p Woll\\nsaw Jacob and spoke kindly to him, and the old man lie was then a hundred\\nand thirty years of age blessed the king. Seventeen years longer he lived\\nhappily in Egypt, and his sons and their children became rich. When he felt\\nthat death was near, he called Joseph and asked him to promise that he should\\nnot be buried in Egypt, but that he might be laid in the grave of his fathers.", "height": "3162", "width": "2232", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0100.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.\\n81\\nHe asked for Joseph s sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, and blessed\\nthem. Manasseh being the eldest, Joseph led him to the right hand of\\nJacob, but Jacob placed his right hand on the head of Ephraim, and his\\nleft on that of Manasseh. Joseph was rather vexed at this; and, thinking his\\nfather had made a mis-\\ntake, for his eyes were\\ndim with age so that he\\ncould not see, took his\\nhand and tried to place it\\non the head of the elder\\nlad, telling Jacob that\\nwas the first-born. The\\ndying man would not\\nchange his hands, but\\nsaid, I know it, my son,\\nI know it he also shall\\nbecome a people, and he\\nalso shall be great; but\\ntruly his younger brother\\nshall be greater than he.\\nWhen he had\\nblessed Ephraim and Ma-\\nnasseh, he blessed Joseph,\\nwhom he had always loved\\nso well, and who had\\nbeen such a good son\\ntold him that he had left\\nhim a larger share of\\nhis possessions than any\\nof his brothers would\\nhave, and made a pro-\\nphecy, Which was fulfilled J AC0B BLESSING THE SONS OF JOSEPH.\\nseveral hundred years afterwards in the time of Moses Behold, I die;\\nbut God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your\\nfathers. Then he called his sons\\nround\\nhim, and prophesied regarding\\nthem and their children, and having again asked that he might be buried\\nin the cave of Machpelah, gathered up his feet into the bed, and died.\\n6", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0101.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "82 MOSES IN EGYPT.\\nHe was buried in great state, for not only all his sons, but the great\\nofficers of Pharaoh s kingdom, followed the body to Canaan, making a great\\nmourning, so that the people of the land named the place to which they\\nbrought the body, Abel mizraim, the mourning of the Egyptians.\\nWhen the} returned, Joseph s brothers feared that he might now remember\\nthe evil they had done him but he forgave them freely, and spake\\nkindly unto them.\\nA hundred and ten years old was the great and good Joseph when\\nhe died. In all the land of Egypt there was none more honored, but, like\\nhis father, he desired to be buried in his own land, and his last words\\nwere, Ye shall carry my bones from hence. Before he died he repeated\\nthe prophecy which his father Jacob had made, that God would bring\\nhis people out of Egypt unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to\\nIsaac, and Jacob.\\nHis body was embalmed, that is, preserved by an art which the\\nEgyptians practised, so that it would not decay and the Israelites, who had\\nso much reason to hold him in remembrance, kept the body throughout\\nall their troubles and wanderings for hundreds of years, until they reached\\nthe Promised Land, where he was buried, as he had desired, in the cave\\nof Machpelah, where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had been buried.\\nMOSES IN EGYPT.\\nMANY years passed away. Joseph was dead, and all his brothers.\\nA new generation of Israelites now lived in Egypt they were\\nvery many the country was full of them. A new king was\\nreigning, who did not know Joseph and he .was very cruel, and hated the\\nIsraelites, and wished to kill them all. He commanded them to do very\\nhard work in the fields, and in making brick and their cruel masters beat\\nthem, and were very unkind to them.\\nAnd did they die when the king gave them all this hard work,\\nwhich made them so weak and tired No, because God kept them and\\ntherefore nothing could hurt them they grew and multiplied more and\\nmore. And why did God care for them so much Because he had\\npromised Abraham, many years before, that his children should be like the\\nsand for multitude, and like the stars in the sky, which we cannot count.\\nGod never forgets his promises, nor his people who love and serve him.", "height": "3247", "width": "2295", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0102.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "MOSES IN EGYPT. 83\\nBut God had promised Jacob to bring bis children home to Canaan y\\nand now they were far off from their possessions had not God forgotten\\nthis promise No we read that he told Abraham, that his children should\\ngo to a strange country, and be afflicted here till the end of 400 years..\\nGod knew the time soon the 400 years would be over, then the Israelites,\\nwould be sent home to their own land again.\\nBut Pharaoh, the cruel king, did not know God, and he tried again\\nand again to destroy the Israelites. He commanded every little Israelitish\\nboy that was born, to be thrown into the river and drowned. The poor\\nmothers loved their dear children, and cried bitterly about this cruel,,\\nwicked law; but the king had no pity, and many of the little boys were\\nthrown into the river and drowned. But God loved those children and\\nwhen they died he took their souls to be with him in heaven.\\nThere was a woman of the family of Levi, who loved God, and her\\nhusband too was a good man. God gave them a little boy. The parents\\nloved this dear child, and tried to save him from the cruel king. For\\nthree months the mother hid her child, that he might not be drowned but\\nwhen he grew older and larger she could not hide him any longer. But\\nshe knew God could keep her little boy, if she could not, and she told all\\nher sorrow to him. God can help us when we are in trouble, and\\nhe can take care of us when our dearest friends cannot and he was\\npleased now to help this poor Woman who trusted in him, and to take care\\nof her little child.\\nThe mother gathered some reeds, and platted them into a little\\nbasket or ark and then she took her dear child, and put him into the ark,\\nand carried him to the river. Did she throw him in No, she laid him\\ngently among the high grass and reeds, by the side of the river.\\nShe could take care of him no more, so she gave him up to God,,\\n1 who alone could keep him but she left Miriam, her little girl, to watch,\\nnear her brother.\\nSoon she saw some people coming who were they They were\\nladies one was the cruel king s daughter, and the others were her maids\\nand they walked along by the river, for the princess was going to bathe.\\nThey did not see Miriam she was a little way off, but she could see them,\\nand hear all they said. The king s daughter soon saw the ark among the\\nreeds, and she sent her maid to fetch it.\\nThe maid ran and took up the ark, and brought it to her mistress", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0103.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "84\\nMOSES IN EGYPT.\\nand opened it. Pharaoh s daughter was not like her cruel father; she\\npitied the poor babe, and said, It is one of the Hebrew children. When\\nMiriam heard the kind lady speak, she went up to the princess, and said,\\nShall I go and call a Hebrew woman to nurse the child for thee?\\nPharaoh s daughter said,\\nGo. Then Miriam ran\\nhome, and told her mother\\nabout the kind lady who\\nwished to save the dear\\nbabe and asked her mother\\nto come and nurse it.\\nMiriam and her\\nmother went back to Pha-\\nraoh s daughter, and the\\nkind princess said, Take\\nthis child and nurse it for\\nme, and I will pay thee\\nthy wages. The mother\\nbrought him home and\\nnursed him, and he grew;\\nand when he was a little\\nolder she brought him to\\nPharaoh s daughter again.\\nThe princess loved the\\nchild and she said, He\\nshall be my son, and I will\\nname him Moses (or, drawn\\nout), because I drew hirr\\nout of the water.\\nHow kind God i.-\\nto those who love and\\nTHE FINDING OF MOSES. pray tQ him He heard\\nthis mother s prayer and saved her child from a cruel death. And God\\nloves to save children now. He keeps them when they are in their\\ncradles he keeps them when they run about, and gives them health, and\\nstrength and all they have. Jesus says, It is not the will of your\\nFather which is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.", "height": "3225", "width": "2271", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0104.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "MIRIAM THE PROPHETESS", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0105.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "MOSES BRINGING WATER FROM THE ROCK\\nEx. 17 5\u00e2\u0080\u00946 Num. 20 9\u00e2\u0080\u009410: Psalm 7S 15\u00e2\u0080\u009420 I Cor. 10:1", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0106.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "MOSES IN EGYPT. 85\\nPharaoh s daughter loved Moses, and she told the wise men of\\nEgypt to teach him all they knew for she wished Moses to be wise. The\\nEgyptians knew many things and had much wisdom but not the best\\nwisdom they did not know nor worship the true God. They worshipped\\nanimals bulls, and sheep, and dogs, and cats, and crocodiles, and insects.\\nBut the Israelites who lived in Egypt remembered the God of their fathers r\\nAbraham, and Isaac, and Jacob and the mother of Moses, no doubt, taught:\\nhim holy things, true wisdom, when he was a very little boy and she\\nprayed for him that he might be kept from sin, and that he might love\\nand serve the Lord.\\nAnd God heard her prayer and taught Moses by the Holy Spirit,\\nthat riches and worldly things could not make him happy, nor save his\\nsoul that God alone could keep him from sin and that he could be saved\\nonly by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who should at a future time come\\ndown from heaven and die for sinners. Pharaoh s daughter called him her\\nson, and wished to give him great riches but Moses did not wish to be\\nrich he chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to\\nenjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. St. John says, Love not the\\nworld, neither the things that are in the world.\\nIf we love pleasure, or riches, or power, or sin, more than we love\\nGod, we cannot be his children. We must give him all our thoughts, all\\nour affections, all our love. Jesus said to his disciples, Lay not up for\\nyourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and\\nwhere thieves break through and steal but lay up for yourselves treasures\\nin heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves\\ndo not break through nor steal.\\nWhen Moses was grown up he went to visit his brethren the\\nIsraelites, who were suffering so much in Egypt. One day he saw an\\nEgyptian cruelly beating an Israelite; they were alone, but God s eye was\\nupon them. God saw the wicked Egyptian and the poor Israelite, and sent\\nMoses to help his suffering brother. Moses ran to the two men and saved\\nthe Israelite and killed the Egyptian, and hid the body in the sand.\\nThe next day Moses went out again, and saw two men fighting.\\nWere the}? Egyptians No, they were both Israelites. Moses was grieved\\nto see them so wicked for God s people ought to be kind and gentle\\nbrothers ought to love one another. So Moses went to them and tried to\\nmake peace between them. But the one who did the wrong would not", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0107.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "86\\nMOSES IN EGYPT.\\nattend to Moses; and said, Who sent thee to be a judge? Wilt thou kill\\nme as thou killedst the Egyptian 3^esterday?\\nWhen Moses heard this he was very much afraid, for he thought\\nthe people knew what he had done and the king might be angry and\\nseek to kill him. So Moses\\nfled from Egypt and went\\nto Midian and sat down\\nby a well. As he sat\\nthere some young women\\ncame to the well to water\\ntheir sheep and Moses\\nhelped them and drew\\nwater for them. When\\nthey went home they told\\ntheir father how kind Moses\\nhad been their father s\\nname was Jethro and when\\nhe heard about Moses he\\nsent for him, and gave him\\nfood, and asked him to\\nlive with him in Midian.\\nMoses did so and\\nsome time after he mar-\\nried one of Jethro s daugh-\\nters, who was named Zip-\\nporah. Moses had not now\\nthe riches of Egypt, which\\nhe had when he lived at\\nthe king s house he was a\\npoor man, keeping Jethro s\\nsheep in the wilderness.\\nMOSES DEFENDING THE DAUGHTERS OF JETHRO. But Moses knew Qod\\nwould take care of him and he loved God better than all the fine things\\nin Egypt.\\nBut did God forget the Israelites, when Moses was gone? No; he\\nheard their cry, and remembered his promise to Abraham, and Isaac, and\\nJacob. God looked upon the children of Israel. We may be sure that", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0108.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "MOSES IN EGYPT.\\n87\\nGod s eye is always upon us lie knows all our sorrows, and sees all our\\ntears, and, in due time, he will comfort and deliver us, if we trust in him.\\nOne day, Moses was keeping Jethro s sheep by Mount Horeb. As\\ntie sat there quietly and alone, he thought often of his poor brethren\\nsuffering in Kgypt, and he\\nasked God to help and\\ndeliver them. Moses had\\nmuch faith he knew that\\nGod had power to save\\nthe Israelites, and he be-\\nlieved that he would save\\nthem at the right time.\\nWhile Moses was think-\\ning of all this, he saw a\\nbright light shining near\\nhim and he looked up,\\nand saw a bush burning\\nwith fire.\\nBut the bush was\\nnot consumed; it did not\\nwither away the leaves\\nand branches did not turn\\nblack, and crumble to\\npieces and Moses won-\\ndered very much, and said,\\nu Why is not the bush con-\\nsumed I will go and see.\\nSo Moses went to look;\\nbut when he came near,\\nhe heard a voice out of\\nthe bush, saying, Moses,\\nMoses. Who called him? M0SES AT THE burning bush.\\nWhat made the bush burn, and why was it not consumed? The voice\\nsaid again, The place -where thou standest is holy ground. I am God\\nthe God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Then Moses hid his face; for\\nle was afraid to look upon God.\\nBut the Lord did not come to hurt his servant he came to comfort", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0109.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "88 MOSES IN EGYPT.\\nhim, and to make him and his poor brethren happy. The Lord said, I\\nhave seen my people s sorrow; I have heard their cry.- I am come to send\\nthee to Pharaoh and thou shalt bring my people out of Egypt. But\\nMoses was very much afraid, and said, Who am I that I should go to\\nPharaoh It was not right of Moses to be afraid when God sent him\\nhe ought to have obeyed directly but the Lord was very kind and gentle,\\nand he spoke again to comfort Moses.\\nHe said, I will be with thee; tell the people that I sent thee. If\\nthe king disobey my command, I have power to punish him; and I will\\nsend plagues upon Egypt, and bring out my people safely. But Moses\\nwas still unwilling to go, and said, Perhaps the people will not believe me.\\nThe Lord then told him to throw his rod upon the ground. Moses\\nobeyed, and it became a serpent and he fled from it for fear. But the\\nLord said, Take it by the tail; and Moses caught it, and it did not\\nbite nor hurt him, but became a rod again in his hand directly. Then God\\ntold Moses to put his hand into his bosom. Moses obeyed, and his hand\\nbecame covered with leprosy but God told him to put his hand again into\\nhis bosom, and in a moment it was well. Then God told him to go and\\nshow these wonders to the people that they might believe that he had\\nsent him.\\nWas Moses willing to go to Egypt now No he was still afraid.\\nHe said, Lord, I cannot speak well my tongue is slow, and I have no\\nwords. But the Lord said, Who hath made man s mouth Who maketh.\\nthe deaf, and the dumb, and the seeing, and the blind? Have not I, the\\nLord Go obey m}^ command, and I will teach thee what thou shalt say.\\nBut still Moses wished not to go. Then the Lord began to be\\nangry for though he is very kind and patient with his people, yet he\\ndoes not like them to disobey his commands, nor to obey slowly and unwil-\\nlingly. But the Lord said to Moses, Aaron thy brother may go with\\nthee he can speak well and I will teach you both what you shall do.\\nThen Moses obeyed he was timid and fearful in himself, but the Lord\\ngave him strength and courage so he went home, and took leave of Jethro,\\nand called his wife Zipporah, and his two sons, and put them upon an ass r\\nand returned to Egypt.\\nThen God said to Aaron, who was living in Egypt, Go and meet\\nMoses. So Aaron went into the wilderness, and soon saw Moses and his\\nfamily coming; and he ran and kissed him. Moses had much to tell", "height": "3239", "width": "2255", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0110.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "MOSES IN EGYPT.\\n8*\\nAaron about the wonders God had shown him and he asked Aaron to go\\nwith him to the king, and command him to send away the Israelites.\\nAaron was willing to go; so they both went, and called the elders of the\\nIsraelites, and told them that God had seen their sorrows, and was going\\nto deliver them. Then\\nthey bowed down their\\nheads, and worshipped.\\nMoses and Aaron\\nwent together to the king,\\nanother Pharaoh, who was\\nnow reigning in Egypt,\\nand said, The Lord com-\\nmands thee to let the\\nIsraelites go. But Pha-\\nraoh answered, I do not\\nknow the Lord; and I will\\nnot let them go. Then\\nthe king told the Israel-\\nites masters to give them\\nmore work, and the poor\\npeople were not able to\\nfinish their hard tasks in\\nmaking brick and their\\ncruel masters beat them,\\nand said, You are idle\\nfulfil your work, your\\ndaily tasks.\\nThe Israelites cried\\nto Moses, and Moses went\\nto God, and told him all\\nhis sorrow. God knew all\\nhis eye was up~u them, THE ROD OF AAR0N changed into a serpent.\\nand very soon b^ would deliver them, and he said, I have heard their\\ngroaning, I remember my covenant with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob,\\nand I will bring my people to Canaan as I have promised.\\nMoses wa* now eighty years old; but he was not weak and feeble,\\nas many old m\u00c2\u00bb*u are he was strong and powerful. God made him so,", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0111.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "90\\nMOSES IN EGYPT.\\nbecause there was much for Moses to do before he died. It is God who gives\\nus all our health aud strength and if we are well and strong we must not\\nbe idle. There is much for us all to do and we must use our health and\\nstrength for God. Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.\\nGod now gave Mo-\\nses and Aaron power to\\ndo wonders, and to work\\nmiracles before Pharaoh.\\nThey went to the king;\\nand Aaron threw down\\nhis rod before him, and\\nit became a serpent. But\\nPharaoh called his wise\\nmen, and told them to\\ntry to do the same and\\nthey did so with their\\nenchantments. Had they\\npower to work miracles\\nNo; perhaps they might\\nhave learned to tame\\nserpents, so as to make\\nthem look like rods in\\ntheir hands; and then\\nthey might have thrown\\nthem down, as Aaron did,\\nand thus pretended to\\nwork a miracle.\\nBut God made\\nAaron s rod swallow up\\ntheir rods. Pharaoh did\\nnot care for this, nor did\\nhe obey the command to\\nlet Israel go and then God said, he would punish Pharaoh, by turning his\\nriver into blood.\\nThe river Nile is very useful in Egypt no rain falls there to water\\nthe ground; but in the summer, the river rises, and overflows the country,\\nand makes the land soft, and then the people sow their seed, and the grass\\nTHE WATERS OF EGYPT CHANGED TO BEOOD.", "height": "3177", "width": "2295", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0112.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "MOSES IN EGYPT.\\n91\\nand corn soon spring up. Did Pharaoh and the Egyptians thank God,\\nwho gave them the Nile to water their land? No, the Egyptians forgot\\nGod; they made their river a god, and worshipped it, and sacrificed to it.\\nBut the Nile had no power to make the country fruitful; it was God who\\nmade it, -and who swelled\\nup its waters, and watered\\nthe land; and now he\\ndetermined to punish and\\nhumble the Egyptians,\\nand to turn their river-\\ngod into blood.\\nGod did as he said.\\nHe told Moses to go and\\nstretch his rod over the\\nwaters; and as soon as he\\ndid so, all became blood.\\nThe ponds, and the water\\nin the vessels, and the\\nbeautiful river, all were\\nblood. The fish died the\\nEgyptians could not drink\\nthe water of the river and\\ntheir river-god could not\\nhelp them now. Did they\\nrepent and ask God to for-\\ngive them No, and there-\\nfore God sent a new pun-\\nishment upon them.\\nAnd seven days\\nwere fulfilled, after that\\nthe Lord had smitten the\\nriver. And the Lord spake THE PI -AGUE of fr ogs.\\nunto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord,\\nLet my people go, that they may serve me. And if thou refuse to let\\nthem go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs and the river shall\\nbring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house,\\nand into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the houses of thy", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0113.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "92 MOSES IN EGYPT.\\nservants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy knead-\\ning-troughs and the frogs shall come up both on thee and upon thy people,\\nand upon all thy servants.\\nAnd the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth\\nthine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the r\\nponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. And Aaron\\nstretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt and the frogs came up,\\nand covered the land of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their\\nenchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.\\nThen Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the\\nLord, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people\\nand I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the Lord.\\nAnd Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me when shall I intreat for\\nthee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from\\nthee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only And he\\nsaid, To-morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou\\nmayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God.\\nAnd the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and\\nfrom thy servants, and from thy people they shall remain in the river\\nonly. And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh And Moses cried\\nunto the Lord because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.\\nAnd the Lord did according to the word of Moses and the frogs died out\\nof the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields. And they gathered\\nthem together upon heaps and the land stank. But when Pharaoh saw\\nthat there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto\\nthem; as the Lord had said.\\nAnd the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy\\nrod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout\\nall the land of Egypt. And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand\\nwith his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man,\\nand in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land\\nof Egypt. And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring\\nforth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon\\nbeast. Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God:\\nand Pharaoh s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as\\nthe Lord had said.\\nAnd the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and", "height": "3247", "width": "2287", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0114.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "RUTH GLEANING IN THE FIELDS OF BOAZ", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0115.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "THE SCRIBES READING THE CHRONICLES TO AHASUERUS\\nEzra 4 15 Ezra fi 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 2 Esther 6:1; Daniel 9 2", "height": "3232", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0116.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "MOSES IN EGYPT.\\n93\\nstand before Pharaoh lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him,\\nThus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. Else,\\nif thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon\\nthee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses:\\nand the houses of the\\nEgyptians shall be full\\nof swarms of flies, and\\nalso the ground whereon\\nthey are. And I will sever\\nin that day the land of\\nGoshen, in which my peo-\\nple dwell, that no swarms\\nof flies shall be there: to\\nthe end thou mayest know\\nthat I am the Lord in the\\nmidst of the earth. And\\nI will put a division be-\\ntween my people and thy\\npeople to-morrow shall\\nthis sign be.\\nAnd the Lord did\\nso and there came a griev-\\nous swarm of flies into the\\nhouse of Pharaoh, and into\\nhis servants houses, and\\ninto all the land of Egypt\\nthe land was corrupted by\\nreason of the swarm of\\nflies. And Pharaoh called\\nfor Moses and for Aaron,\\nand said, Go ye, sacrifice\\nto your God in the land. THE PLAGUE OF LICE.\\nAnd Moses said, It is not meet so to do for we shall sacrifice the abomina-\\ntion of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the\\nabomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone\\nus We will go three days journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to\\nthe Lord our God, as he shall command us. And Pharaoh said, I will let", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0117.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "94\\nMOSES IN EGYPT.\\nyou go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness omy\\nye shall not go very far away intreat for rue.\\nAnd Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the\\nLord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants,\\nand from his people, to-\\nmorrow but let not Pha-\\nraoh deal deceitfully any\\nmore in not letting the\\npeople go to sacrifice to\\nthe Lord. And Moses\\nwent out from Pharaoh,\\nand in treated the Lord.\\nAnd the Lord did accord-\\ning to the word of Moses\\nand he removed the swarms\\nof flies from Pharaoh, from\\nhis servants, and from his\\npeople there remained\\nnot one. And Pharaoh\\nhardened his heart at this\\ntime also, neither would\\nhe let the people go.\\nThen the Lord said\\nunto Moses, Go in unto\\nPharaoh, and tell him,\\nThus saith the Lord God\\nof the Hebrews, Let my\\npeople go, that they may\\nserve me. For if thou\\nrefuse to let them go, and\\nwilt hold them still, be-\\nhold, the hand of the Lord\\nis upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses,\\nupon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep there shall be a very\\ngrievous plague. And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel\\nand the cattle of Egypt and there shall nothing die of all that is the\\nthildren s of Israel.\\nTHE PLAGUE OF FLIES.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0118.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "MOSES IN EGYPT.\\n95\\nAnd the Lord appointed a set time, saying, To-morrow the Lord\\nshall do this thing in the land. And the Lord did that thing on the\\nmorrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died but of the cattle of the children\\nof Israel died not one. And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one\\nof the cattle of the Israel-\\nites dead. And the heart\\nof Pharaoh was hardened,\\nand he did not let the\\npeople go.\\nAnd the Lord said\\nunto Moses and unto\\nAaron, Take to you hand-\\nfuls of ashes of the fur-\\nnace, and let Moses\\nsprinkle it toward the\\nheaven in the sight of\\nPharaoh. And it shall\\nbecome small dust in all\\nthe land of Egypt and\\nshall be a boil breaking\\nforth with blains upon\\nman, and upon beast,\\nthroughout all the land\\nof Egypt. And they\\ntook ashes of the fur-\\nnace, and stood before\\nPharaoh and Moses\\nsprinkled it up toward\\nheaven and it became\\na boil, breaking forthwith\\nblains upon man and\\nupon beast. And the the plague of murrain.\\nmagicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils for the boil\\nwas upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. And the Lord\\nhardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them.\\nAnd the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and\\nstand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0119.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "96\\nMOSKS IN EGYPT.\\nHebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. For I will at this\\ntime send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and\\nupon thy people that thou mayest know that there is none like me in\\nall the earth. For now I will stretch out my hand that I may smite thee\\nand thy people with pes-\\ntilence and thou shalt\\nbe cut off from the earth.\\nAnd in very deed for this\\ncause have I raised thee\\nup, for to show in thee\\nmy power; and that my\\nname may be declared\\nthroughout all the earth.\\nAs yet exaltest thou thy-\\nself against my people, that\\nthou wilt not let them go.\\nAnd the Lord said\\nunto Moses, Stretch forth\\nthine hand toward heaven,\\nthat there may be hail in\\nall the land of Egypt,\\nupon man, and upon beast,\\nand upon every herb of the\\nfield, throughout the land\\nof Egypt. And Moses\\nstretched forth his rod to-\\nward heaven and the Lord\\nsent thunder and hail, and\\nthe fire ran along the\\nground, and the Lord\\nrained hail upon the land\\nTHE PLAGUE OF BOILS AND BLAINS. of Egypt Sq there wag\\nhail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like\\nit in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. And the hail smote\\nthroughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast;\\nand the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.\\nOnlv in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0120.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "MOSES IN EGYPT.\\n97\\nAnd Pharaoh sent and. called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto\\nthem, I have sinned this time the Lord is righteous, and I and my people\\nare wicked. Intreat the Lord (for it is enough) that there be no more\\nmighty thunderings and hail and I will let yon go, and ye shall stay no\\nlonger. And Moses said\\nunto him, As soon as I\\nam gone out of the city\\nI will spread abroad my\\nhands unto the Lord and\\nthe thunder shall cease,\\nneither shall there be any\\nmore hail, that thou may-\\nest know how that the\\nearth is the Lord s.\\nAnd the Lord said\\nunto Moses, Go in unto\\nPharaoh for I have hard-\\nened his heart, and the\\nheart of his servants, that\\nI might shew these my\\nsigns before him and that\\nthou mayest tell in the\\nears cf thy son, and of\\nthy son s son, what things\\nI have wrought in Egypt,\\nand my signs which I have\\ndone among them that\\nye may know how that I\\nam the Lord. And Moses\\nand Aaron came in unto\\nPharaoh, and said unto\\nhim, Thus saith the Lord\\nGod of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before\\nme Let my people go, that they may serve me.\\nElse, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold to-morrow will I\\nbring the locusts into thy coast and they shall cover the face of the earth,\\nthat one cannot be able to see the earth and they shall eat the residue\\n7\\nTHE PLAGUE OF HAIL.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0121.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "98\\nMOSES IN EGYPT.\\nof that which is escaped, which remaiueth unto you from the hail, and\\nshall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the .field and they shall\\nfill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all\\nthe Egyptians which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers fathers have\\nseen, since the day that\\nthey were upon the earth\\nunto this day. And he\\nturned himself and went\\nout from Pharaoh.\\nAnd the Lord said\\nunto Moses, Stretch out*\\nthine hand over the land\\nof Egypt for the locusts,\\nthat they may come up\\nupon the land of Egypt\\nand eat every herb of the\\nland, even all that the\\nhail hath left. And Moses\\nstretched forth his rod\\nover the land of Egypt\\nand the Lord brought an\\neast wind upon the laud\\nall that day and all that,\\nnight and when it was\\nmorning the east wind\\nbrought the locusts.\\nAnd the locusts\\nwent up over all the land\\nof Egypt, and rested in\\nall the coasts of Egypt\\nvery grievous were they:\\nbefore them there were\\nno such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. For they\\ncovered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened and\\nthey did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which\\nthe hail had left and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or\\nin the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.\\nTHE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0122.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "MOSES IN EGYPT. 99\\nThen Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste and he said, I\\nnave sinned against the Lord your God and against you. Now therefore\\nforgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the Lord your God,\\nthat he may take away from me this death only. And he went out from\\nPharaoh and intreated the Lord. And the Lord turned a mighty strong\\nwest wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red Sea;\\nthere remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt. But Pharaoh\\nwould not let Israel go.\\nAnd the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward\\nheaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness\\nwhich may be felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven\\nand there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days they\\nsaw not one another, neither rose any from his placs for three days but\\nall the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.\\nAnd Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the Lord;\\nonly let your flocks and your herds be stayed let your little ones also go\\nwith you. And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt-\\nofferings, that we may sacrifice unto the Lord our God. Our cattle also\\nshall go with us there shall not an hoof be left behind for thereof must\\nwe take to serve the Lord our God and we know not with what we must\\nserve the Lord, until we come thither. But the Lord hardened Pharaoh s\\nheart, and he would not let them go. And Pharaoh said unto him, Get\\nthee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more for in that\\nday thou seest my face thou shalt die. And Moses said, I will see thy\\nface again no more.\\nAnd the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more\\nupon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence:\\nwhen he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.\\nSpeak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his\\nneighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of\\ngold. And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians.\\nMoreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight\\nof Pharaoh s servants, and in the sight of the people.\\nAnd Moses said, Thus saith the Lord, About midnight will I go\\nout into the midst of Egypt: and all the first-born in the land of Egypt\\nshall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even\\nunto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill and all the", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0123.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "100\\nMOSES IN EGYPT.\\nfirst-born of beasts. And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land\\nof Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.\\nBut against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue,\\nagainst man or beast that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a differ-\\np ence between the Egyptians\\nand Israel. And all these\\nthy servants shall come\\ndown unto me, and bow\\ndown themselves unto me,\\nsaying, Get thee out, and\\nall the people that follow\\nthee and after that I will\\ngo out. And he went out\\nfrom Pharaoh in a great\\nanger. And the Lord said\\nunto Moses, Pharaoh shall\\nnot hearken unto you that\\nmy wonders may be mul-\\ntiplied in the land of Egypt.\\nAnd this day shall\\nbe unto you for a memo-\\nrial; and ye shall keep it\\na feast to the Lord through-\\nout your generations ye\\nshall keep it a feast by an\\nordinance for ever. Seven\\ndays shall ye eat unleav-\\nened bread even the first\\nday ye shall put away\\nleaven out of your houses:\\nfor whosoever eateth leav-\\nDEATH OF THE FIRST-BORN OF EGYPT. ened bread from firsfc\\nday until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. And in\\nthe first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day\\nthere shall be an holy convocation to you no manner of work shall be\\ndone in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be\\ndone of you.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0124.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH CAST INTO THK PIT", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0125.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0126.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "MOSES IN EGYPT.\\n101\\nAnd ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread for in this self-\\nsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt therefore\\nshall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. In\\nthe first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat\\nunleavened bread, until the\\none and twentieth day of\\nthe month at even. Seven\\ndays shall there be no\\nleaven found in your\\nhouses for whosoever eat-\\neth that which is leavened,\\neven that soul shall be\\ncut off from the congrega-\\ntion of Israel, whether he\\nbe a stranger, or born in\\nthe land. Ye shall eat\\nnothing leavened in all\\nyour habitations shall ye\\neat unleavened bread.\\nThen Moses called\\nfor all the elders of Israel,\\nand said unto them, Draw\\nout and take you a lamb\\naccording to your families,\\nand kill the passover. And\\nye shall take a bunch of\\nhyssop, and dip it in the\\nblood that is in the basin,\\nand strike the top beam\\nand the two side posts with\\nthe blood that is in the\\nbasin and none of you shall\\ngo out at the door of his house until the morning. For the Lord will pass\\nthrough to smite the Egyptians and when he seeth the blood upon the\\nlintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and\\nwill not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.\\nAnd it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the first-\\nTHE FIRST PASSOVER.", "height": "3224", "width": "2299", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0127.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "102\\nMOSES IN EGYPT.\\nborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his\\nthrone nnto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon and all\\nthe first-born of cattle. And Pharaoh rose np in the night, he, and all his\\nservants, and all the Egyptians and there was a great cry in Egypt for\\nthere was not a house where\\nthere was not one dead.\\nAnd he called for\\nMoses and Aaron by night,\\nand said, Rise up, and get\\nyou forth from among my\\npeople, both ye and the\\nchildren of Israel and go,\\nserve the Lord as ye have\\nsaid. Also take your flocks\\nand your herds, as ye have\\nsaid, and be gone and\\nbless me also.\\nWhen Moses and\\nthe Israelites left Egypt\\nin so much haste, they did\\nnot forget Joseph s dying\\ncommand, but carried his\\nbones with them. Then\\nthey went on, and came to\\nthe Red Sea. But when\\nPharaoh heard they were\\ngone, he commanded his\\nservants to bring his char-\\niots, and his horses and\\nhe went with a great army\\nto bring the people back\\nagain. He overtook them\\nby the sea they were all resting in their tents a pillar of cloud was before\\nthem God gave them this pillar to show them the road by day and by\\nnight, he put before them a pillar of fire to give them light. They were\\nsafe under God s keeping.\\nBut soon they looked up and what did they see Pharaoh and\\nTHE ISRAELITES DEPARTING FROM EGYPT.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0128.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "MOSES IN EGYPT.\\n103\\nthe Egyptians coming after them very quickly, with their chariots and\\nhorses. The Israelites cried to the Lord, and said to Moses, Why hast\\nthou brought us away from Egypt? We shall die, now, here in this\\nwilderness They forgot that God was still with them but Moses said,\\nFear not; be still, and\\nthe Lord will fight for you.\\nThen the Lord com-\\nmanded the people to go\\non. But where could they\\ngo The great sea was\\nbefore them, and there was\\nno bridge to go over, and\\nno ships to carry them\\nacross. What could they\\ndo God knew he could\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acnd a way for them to\\nescape. The pillar which\\nwas before them, moved\\nbehind; it stood now be-\\ntween the Israelites and\\nthe Egyptians but the side\\nnext the Israelites was\\nbright, to give them light;\\nand the side next the\\nEgyptians was dark and\\ncloudy, so that they could\\nnot see to do the Israelites\\nany hurt all that night.\\nThen God told Moses\\nto stretch his rod over the\\nsea and the Lord sent a\\nvery strong wind to blow brack s host overwhelmed in the sea.\\nback the water and in the morning there was a dry road through the sea, and\\nthe waters stood like a wall on each side. Who did this wonder? Not Moses,\\nnot his rod, not the strong wind alone it was God, God who has power to do all\\nthings. The Israelites walked through the sea, all of them, on dry ground not\\none was drowned, for God held back the waters till they were all gone over safely.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0129.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "104 MOSES IN EGYPT.\\nThen the Egyptians tried to pursue them, and went in after them;\\nbut God looked angrily at them through the pillar, and made them fear,,\\nand took off the wheels of their chariots. And then he told Moses to\\nstretch his rod over the sea, and the waters came back again upon Pharaoh,\\nand his army, and his servants, and chariots, and horses, and they were\\nall drowned.\\nIn the morning, the Israelites saw all their enemies lying dead upon\\nthe sea-shore. The Egyptians could hurt them no more now their bodies\\nwere cold and dead, and their souls were gone to be judged by God, whom\\nthey had rebelled against and disbelieved. It is a fearful thing to fall\\ninto the hands of the living God.\\nThe Israelites thanked God, and sang praises to him and Miriam\\nand the women prayed and danced for joy. Then they went on into the\\nwilderness of Shur. They wandered there three days, and found no water.\\nAt last they came to Marah, and there was water; but the water was\\nbitter, and they could not drink it. Then the people were discontented\\nagain, and said to Moses, What shall we drink? Was this right? No;\\nthe Israelites were discontented and unbelieving people. They knew God\\nhad power to give them water if he pleased; and they knew that they\\nought to be patient if he gave them none; he had done many wonderful\\nthings for them, and he could do as many more; but they forgot his\\nkindness, and were impatient, and angry, and discontented.\\nMoses was sorry to find the people doing wrong again so soon. He\\ncould not comfort them he could not make the water good but he\\nremembered who could, and he cried to the Lord. And did God attend to\\nMoses? Yes; he did not forget his distressed people. Moses cried unto\\nthe Lord and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into\\nthe waters, the waters were made sweet.\\nWas there any wonderful power in this tree? No, the power was\\nin God; the tree could do no good without him. God taught his people\\nhow great his power is, because he wished them to trust in him, and to\\nfeel safe and happy in his keeping. We ought all to trust him. He\\nknows what is best for us; and, if we are his people, we are safe in all\\nplaces, and may have comfort in all our sorrows. We can all do some-\\nthing towards sweetening the lives of the poor, the troubled, and the\\nwretched. Kind words and deeds are the tree that will make the bitter\\nwaters sweet; and the young can do this as well as the old.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0130.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\nX T~HEN God sweetened the bitter waters of Marah, he spoke kindly\\nto the Israelites, and said, If you will obey me, and do what\\nis right, then I will be with you, and keep, and bless, and\\nstrengthen you and I will not send any of those diseases and plagues\\nupon you, which I sent upon the Egyptians. Then they were comforted,\\nand went on to Elim, and there they found twelve wells of water, and\\nmany date palm trees and they pitched their tents there. They were very\\nglad to see these trees. The fruit is very pleasant and refreshing to poor\\ntired wanderers in the wilderness; the trees on which it grows can live in\\nthese hot places, and water is always found near the date trees.\\nWhen the Israelites went away from Elim, they came into another\\nwilderness, the Desert of Sin. Then they began to be discontented and\\nthey murmured again, and said, We shall die of hunger, for there is no\\nfood here. When we were in Egypt, we had plenty but now, we have\\nnothing why did you bring us here How unthankful these people\\nwere God had delivered them from their cruel masters, and brought\\nthem safely through the sea and he had given them sweet water to drink,\\nand promised always to take care of them and yet they would not trust him.\\nMoses went again to God, and told him all his sorrows, and all that\\nthe people said. Then God answered, I have heard their murmurings\\ngo, and tell them, I will give them flesh to-night to eat and in the morn-\\ning I will give them bread. Where could they find flesh? Must they\\nkill all their flocks and herds No God sent them some birds called\\nquails, which came in great numbers, and covered the tents and the\\nIsraelites caught, and killed, and ate them in the evening.\\nAnd was this all God gave them No in the morning, when the\\ndew was gone, the Israelites saw the ground covered with a little round\\nthing, white like frost. It was new to all the people, and they came out\\nand looked, and wondered, and asked, What is it? Nobody knew; but\\nMoses said, This is the bread God has given you to eat. How wonderful\\nwas this God sent this sweet bread to feed his people in the wilderness,\\nwhere there was no corn for them to eat.\\nThe Israelites called the new food which God sent, manna; it was\\nsweet and nice, like honey. Moses said, You must gather the manna\\n105", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0131.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "106\\nTHE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\nfresh every morning. God promises to send it every day but you must\\nnot keep it till the next morning. Every one of you must gather an omer\\nfull but the day before the Sabbath, you must gather two omers full, and\\nkeep one of them for the Sabbath for God will send no manna on the\\nSabbath day. Some of the\\npeople would not believe\\nMoses they determined\\nto try and keep the manna\\ntill the morrow, and see\\nif it would be good.\\nBut, in the morn-\\ning, when the people looked\\nat the manna they had\\nkept, they found that it\\nwas full of worms, and\\nsmelt badly they could\\nnot eat it, but threw it\\naway. And did not the\\nmanna saved for the Sab-\\nbath become bad No\\nbecause God kept it good\\nhe did not wish his Holy\\nSabbath to be broken, and\\nhe had power to keep the\\nmanna fresh and sweet if\\nhe pleased. But there were\\nsome more disobedient peo-\\nple who would not believe\\nMoses, nor attend to God s\\ncommand. They went out\\non the Sabbath day to\\ngather manna. Did they\\nfind it? No: God did not send any, and they went home again empty;\\nand God was angry with them for their disobedience.\\nThe Sabbath is not a day on which we ought to do any work. It\\nis God s day he kindly gave it to us, that we might have more time to\\n\\\\ttend to our souls, and to think of God, and death, and judgment, and\\nTHE ISRAELITES GATHERING MANNA.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0132.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS. 107\\nheaven, and hell. We should not think much of our food on this holy\\nday we should prepare it the day before, as God told the Israelites to do.\\nWe have our food from God, as they had. It is not rained down from\\nheaven, because God does not now work miracles and we live in a country\\nwhere there is plenty of corn to make bread.\\nBut God only sends down rain from heaven to make the corn grow,\\nand he makes the sun shine to ripen it. He alone can cause the grass to\\nspring up, and give food to the beasts of the field. We must pray, Give\\nus day b}^ day our daily bread. And when we eat it, we must thank\\nGod who gave it, and not wish for more nor better food than he sends.\\nThe Israelites now went on, through the wilderness of Sin, to Rep-\\nhidim. How did they know the way God went before them in the pillar\\nof cloud by day and in the pillar of fire by night. When the pillar stopped,\\nthey stopped and when the pillar moved, they moved, and followed it\\nwherever it went. While we live, we are like the Israelites, travelling in\\nthe wilderness but, if we are God s people, we need not fear, because he\\nis always by us. He does not go before us in a pillar of cloud and fire\\nbut his hand is always over us to guide and keep us, and his eye sees us\\nwherever we are. We must pray God to lead us in the right way, in\\nthe way to heaven.\\nThere was no water at Rephidim and the people murmured again,\\nand were very angry with Moses, and very unthankful to God. Then\\nMoses cried to God, and he heard the prayer. God told him to go to\\nMount Horeb, and strike the rock and he promised that then water\\nshould come out. Moses obeyed God, and struck the rock, and water came\\nout. It was God s power that did this miracle; not Moses, nor the rod, but\\nGod alone, could bring water out of the rock.\\nThere were some wicked people, who lived not far from this wilder-\\nness, called Amalekites, and now they came to fight with Israel, in Rephi-\\ndim. Moses called Joshua his servant, and said to him, Choose men,\\nand go and fight with the Amalekites and I will go up to the top of the\\nmountain, with the rod of God in my hand. So Joshua and the soldiers\\nwent to fight and Moses and Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the\\nhill. What did they do there Moses held up his hand, with the rod of\\nGod in it, and prayed God to give the Israelites power to conquer their\\nenemies. God heard Moses pray, and put strength into the soldiers hands,\\nand gave them power over their enemies.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0133.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "108\\nTHE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\nBut Moses was tired of holding up his hands they were heavy, and\\nfell down, and then the Amalekites became strong, and the Israelites\\nbecame weak. But Aaron and Hur took a large stone, and put it under\\nMoses, and he sat upon it and Aaron and Hur held up his hands all the\\nday till the sun went down.\\nAnd God blessed the Israel-\\nitish soldiers they con-\\nquered their enemies, and\\ndrove all the wicked Ama-\\nlekites away.\\nThe Israelites now\\ncame into the wilderness\\nof Sinai, and pitched their\\ntents before the mountain.\\nMoses went up into the\\nmountain, and God talked\\nto him there. God said,\\nGo, and tell the Israelites\\nwhat wonderful things I\\nhave done for them, in\\nsaving them from the Egyp-\\ntians, and bringing them\\nhere. They are my own\\npeople; and if they will love\\nand obey me, I will keep\\nthem always, and give them\\nall they want; and they shall\\nbe my children, and I will\\nbe their Father. Moses\\ntold the people what God\\nsaid, and they all answered,\\nVICTORY OF THE ISRAELITES OVER AMALEK. u y^ Q w ^j T^j.^\\nThen God said again to Moses, Go, and tell the people to make\\nthemselves ready for the third day for then I will come down upon the\\nmountain to speak to them. They shall not go up, nor touch the moun-\\ntain whoever touches it shall be put to death. When the trumpet sounds,\\nthey shall come up to the mount. The people obeyed; they all washed", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0134.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0135.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "THE FINDING OF MOSES", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0136.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS. 109\\ntheir clothes, and made themselves ready for the third day. Why?\\nBecause God was coming, the holy God the people were to remember\\nhow great and wonderful he is, and how weak and sinful they were; and\\nto come before God with reverence.\\nIn the morning, the Israelites looked towards the mountain a thick\\nblack cloud was over it and fire, and smoke, and lightning came out of\\nthe mountain, and all the ground shook. The people were very much\\nfrightened; but the trumpet sounded, and then Moses brought them all\\nout, and made them stand round the mountain.\\nThe trumpet sounded louder and louder, and Moses spoke, and God s\\nvoice answered him. Then the Lord came down on Mount Sinai, and\\ncalled Moses and Moses went up. God said, Tell the people again, not\\nto touch the mountain but thou shalt come up, and Aaron with thee.\\nThen Moses went down, and told them.\\nIt was a very fearful thing to see the great mountain smoking, and\\nthe fire and lightning coming out of the thick black darkness. Why was\\nit so fearful Because God was there the holy, powerful God God who\\ncannot look upon sin, and who has power to punish all those who disobey\\nhim. Our God is a consuming fire. The Israelites trembled before him;\\nand we must tremble too, if we have not been washed from our sins in the\\nblood of Jesus. We have no power to escape we cannot save ourselves from\\nthe anger of a holy God but if we believe in Jesus, we are safe. We need not\\nfear then, because God promises to accept all those who come to Jesus alone\\nfor salvation. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.\\nWhen the Israelites saw the lightning, and the blackness of the\\nmountain, and heard the thunders, and the loud trumpet, they were very\\nmuch afraid, and moved away from the mountain, and stood afar off.\\nThey said to Moses, Speak thou to us, and we will hear but let not\\nGod speak to us, lest we die. But Moses said, Fear not; God is come\\nto prove you, and to tell 3 ou what you ought to do, that you may learn\\nto know and serve him aright, that his blessing may be upon you. We\\nare all poor, helpless sinners before God our own obedience cannot take\\nus to heaven, for we have disobeyed God many times. How then can we\\ngo to heaven? Jesus Christ alone can take us there. He bore the pun-\\nishment of our sins upon the cross, and his blood can cleanse us he was\\nperfectly holy, he kept all the commandments and, if we believe in him,\\nGod will accept us for his righteousness sake.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0137.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "110 THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\nBut we must try to be like Jesus we must wish and strive to be\\nholy. We must ask him for all these things, that -we may be made his\\nown dear children by faith in Christ Jesus. And then we need not fear;\\nbecause God has promised to save all who believe and we shall not\\ntremble at the day of judgment, when we stand before his throne, because,\\nif our sins have all been washed away in Jesus blood, and our hearts\\nmade new and clean by the Holy Spirit, we shall hear our Saviour say,\\nCome, ye blessed and we shall be taken up to heaven, away from sin\\nand sorrow for ever.\\nWhen God had finished speaking, Moses came and told the people\\nall he had said, and they answered, We will obey the Lord we will do\\nwhat he commands us. Then Moses wrote all the words of God and\\nthe Israelites offered sacrifices unto the Lord. Moses read the book of the\\nlaw to the people, and they said again, All that the Lord hath said, we\\nwill do, and be obedient. Then Moses and Aaron, and some of the\\nelders of Israel, went up towards the mountain, and there they saw an\\nappearance of the bright glory of God; but this could not hurt them,\\nbecause God kept them safely and they stayed there before him, and did\\neat and drink. Then God told Moses alone to come up to him, to receive\\nthe tables of stone upon which God had written the Ten Commandments.\\nMoses waited six days upon the mountain, with Joshua his servant\\nand then God called to him out of the cloud, and Moses went up, and was\\nthere in the mount forty days and forty nights. Moses was not afraid to\\nbe with God, because he was his father and his friend. We have no need\\nto fear, when our sins are forgiven, and when we are at peace with God\\nthrough Jesus Christ.\\nWhat did God say to Moses when he was in the mountain He\\ngave him many directions about the tabernacle which the Israelites were\\nto make, where God was to be worshipped and about the sacrifices, and\\npriests, and the holy things which we shall soon read about and then he\\ngave Moses the two tables of stone, written with the finger of God. The\\npeople waited a long time for Moses, and wondered he did not come down\\nto them, and then they began to be tired and impatient, and they went to\\nAaron and said, Moses is gone away we do not know what is become\\nof him make gods for us, and they shall go before us.\\nDid Aaron tell them how wicked and disobedient they were No\\nAaron sinned too, and let the people sin. He told them to give him their", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0138.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\nIll\\ngolden earrings which were in their ears so they brought them to Aaron,\\nand he made them into a golden calf. Then the people said, These be\\nthe gods who brought us up from Egypt; and Aaron built an altar, and\\noffered sacrifices to the calf, and made a feast and the people ate and\\ndrank, and played before\\nthe image.\\nThe}r had soon for-\\ngotten the holy command\\nof God, which he spoke to\\nthem from the mount,\\nThou shalt not make any\\ngraven image. They had\\nforgotten their own promise,\\nwhich they made to Moses,\\nWe will obey the Lord.\\nThey had forgotten to ask\\nGod s help to teach them\\nto serve him. But did not\\nGod see Was not he\\nangry Yes he saw all\\nfor his eyes are in every\\nplace he knew when he\\nwas talking to his ser-\\nvant Moses what his dis-\\nobedient people were doing;\\nand he said to Moses,\\nGo down; the people have\\nforgotten me, and they\\nhave made a golden calf,\\nand worship it. I am\\nangry with these disobe-\\ndient people; I will de- worshipping the golden calf.\\nstroy them but I will keep thee, and make of thee a great nation.\\nBut Moses prayed God to forgive these sinful people, and to\\nremember his servants Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and his promises to\\nthem. Then God heard Moses prayer, and did not destroy them all.\\nSo Moses took the tables in his hands and went down again to", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0139.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "112 THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\nJoshua. Joshua said, There is a noise in the camp; but he did not\\nknow what the noise was. Moses listened, and said, It is a singing that\\nI hear; and when they came near, they saw the golden calf, and the\\npeople playing, and dancing, and singing before it. Then Moses was\\nangry, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and broke them under the\\nmountain. Why was he angry To see that these people had so soon\\nforgotten their kind God, and their own promise to love and serve him.\\nThey were helpless sinners, and we are so too. When we trust to\\nour own strength and goodness, and forget to ask for the Holy Spirit to\\nhelp and teach us, we are as forgetful of God, as unthankful, and as\\nwicked as these Israelites were. Let us pray to God every day to keep us\\nfrom sin, and to enable us to live always in his fear and love.\\nThen the Lord told Moses to come up again into the mountain, and\\nto bring with him two tables of stone, like the first tables which he broke.\\nMoses obeyed, and went up to Mount Sinai very early in the morning\\nand God came down in a cloud, and stood near him, and talked to him.\\nMoses could not see the bright glory of the Lord no living man can\\nsee that but in heaven we shall see him face to face, and behold his\\nglory for ever.\\nGod passed by Moses, as he stood on the mountain, and spoke with\\na loud voice. What did he say? He told Moses what a good, and kind,\\nand gracious God he is a God who loves to forgive, and who saves all\\nwho come to him in faith but a very holy God too a God that cannot\\nlook on sin, and who punishes all those who will not repent and turn to\\nhim. When Moses heard God speak, he fell down and worshipped and\\nasked that great and holy God to forgive his sins, and the sins of the\\nIsraelites, and to make them his own people, and to keep and save them\\nfor ever. And did God hear the prayer? Yes, he promised to keep the\\nIsraelites still and to give them the good land of Canaan, if they would\\nobey and serve him, and no more make and worship the idols which the\\npeople around them served and worshipped.\\nMoses staid in the mountain again forty days he neither ate nor\\ndrank, but God had power to keep him without food and Moses was\\nhappy with his God, and loved to be there. God gave him many com-\\nmands about what the people must do, and what they must not do; and\\nhe wrote again the ten commandments upon the new tables. When God\\nhad finished speaking, Moses came down from the mountain and the", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0140.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\n113\\npeople looked at him, and saw that his face was bright and shining and\\nthey feared to come near to him.\\nWhat made Moses face shine? The bright glory of God, which\\nrested upon him while he talked to him in the mountain. When Moses\\nsaw that it was painful for\\nthe people to look at him,\\nhe took a veil, and covered\\nhis face, and then spoke\\nto them but when Moses\\nspoke to God he put off\\nthe veil.\\nMoses told the peo-\\nple all the commands of\\nGod, and showed them the\\nnew tables and he spoke\\nto them about the Sabbath,\\nthe holy day of God, when\\nthey must do no work,\\nbecause it is a day of rest,\\nholy to the Lord. Then\\nhe told them about the\\ntabernacle which God com-\\nmanded them to make,\\nwhere they were to worship\\nhim and Moses asked them\\nto bring their gold, and\\nsilver, and brass, and blue,\\nand purple, and scarlet,\\nand the skins of animals,\\nand beautiful stones these\\nthings were to help to\\nmake the tabernacle, and\\nall which was to be in it. The people were glad to bring their riches for\\nthe service of God and many of them were very busy and industrious in\\nthis good work. The women spun hair for the curtains, and the men\\nworked the stones, and the gold, and silver; all tried to do something.\\nThere was a man named Bezaleel, who was very wise in many\\n8\\nMOSES AND THE TABLES OF THE EAW.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0141.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "114\\nTHE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\ncurious works, in cutting stones and carving wood. This man loved God,\\nand he was very glad he could do something in his service. He made all\\nthe things for the tabernacle, and taught other men to help him, that the\\nwork might be done quicker.\\nThe tabernacle was mads of boards, with bars put across and these\\nboards and bars were made\\nof shittimwood covered with\\ngold. At the entrance there\\nwere no boards, but five\\npillars of shittim wood cov-\\nered with gold. Within the\\ntabernacle, under the upper\\nend, were four more pillars\\na beautiful covering, called\\nthe vail, was hung over\\nthem and this hid the\\ninside, which was the most\\nholy place, the Holy of\\nHolies. None could go\\nin there but the High\\nPriest; and he went only\\nonce a year.\\nIn the Holy of Ho-\\nlies was placed the ark.\\nThe ark was a chest or\\nbox made of shittim wood,\\ncovered with gold and there\\nwere rings in the sides, for\\npoles to be put in when\\nthe ark was moved. The\\ntop of the ark was called\\nthe Mercy-seat two golden\\nangels, called Cherubim,\\nwere placed one on each side the Mercy-seat they looked over it, and their\\nwings covered the top.\\nIn the ark were afterwards kept the tables of the commandments,\\nAaron s rod, and a golden pot full of manna, which God commanded to be\\nTHE LAYER OF BRASS.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0142.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS. 115\\nput there. Outside the vail was the altar on which incense was burnt, the\\ntable on which the hoi}- bread, called shew-bred, was placed, and the great\\ngold candlestick. The tabernacle stood in a large open court pillars of\\nbrass surrounded it, and curtains were hung upon thein. The brazen altar\\nfor burn t-offe rings, and the great laver where the priests washed, stood in\\nthis court. There were coverings and curtains to the tabernacle and court.\\nOver the boards of the tabernacle was thrown a covering of fine\\nlinen beautifully worked in scarlet, and purple, and bltie; over the linen,\\nwas a covering of goats hair over this, a covering of rams skins dyed\\nred and another covering of thick skins over all. The people were not\\nallowed to go into the tabernacle but the priests went in every morning\\nto offer incense, and every evening to light the lamps and on the Sabbath\\nto take away the old shew-bred from the table and to put on new. The\\nsacrifices were offered in the court, where the people stood.\\nThis w^as the beautiful tabernacle which God taught Moses to make\\nfor his worship. The things in it were likenesses, or types, of better and\\nholy things. The Hol} T of Holies was a type of Heaven, that holy place\\nwhich we cannot now see and the ark there, with the bright glory shining\\nabove it, was a type of Christ. He is now in Heaven, and the holy angels\\nstand before him, like the Cherubim over the ark. When the High Priest\\nwent into the most Holy Place, he sprinkled the blood of the sacrifice\\nbefore the Mercy-seat. Jesus is our High Priest, and he offered a sacrifice\\nfor our sins before he went into Heaven. What sacriiice did he offer He\\noffered himself; he died upon the cross, and there poured out his blood,\\nand bore the punishment of our sins. And now, like the Israelitish High\\nPriest, he is gone into the Holy Place, not into the Holy of Holies of the\\ntabernacle, but into Heaven of which that was the type and there he\\npleads for us before the Mercy-seat, the throne of God.\\nWhen all was finished, God commanded Moses to set up the taber-\\nnacle. Then Moses put up the boards and bars, and threw the covering\\nover and took the ark and put it into the Holy Place, within the vail\\nthen he placed the table outside, and put the bread upon it; and near the\\ntable he placed the candlestick, and lighted up the lamps.\\nHe put the golden altar before the vail, and burnt sweet incense\\nupon it but the altar of burnt-offering, and the laver, he put in the\\ncourt outside. Then Moses and Aaron washed at the laver and the\\nhangings were put up, and all was finished. A cloud covered the tabernacle,", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0143.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "116\\nTHE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\nand the glory of the Lord filled it. The cloud was always there by day,\\nand fire by night. When the cloud was taken up, the people journeyed\\nand when it staid upon the tabernacle, then they rested in their tents.\\nWhen the people were still at Sinai, after the tabernacle was set\\nup, God spoke again to\\nMoses, and gave him many\\ncommands about his wor-\\nship and service. God com-\\nmanded that Aaron and\\nhis sons should be his\\npriests or ministers. They\\nwere brought into the taber-\\nnacle, and there consecrated\\nfor the holy work. So now,\\nministers of the gospel are\\nordained and set apart,\\nbefore they begin to teach\\nand preach to the people.\\nIt is a holy office, and min-\\nisters ought to think much\\nabout it, and to pray to\\nGod for his help and bless-\\ning and the people ought\\nto pray, too, that God would\\ngive holy wisdom and power\\nto his ministers, and make\\nthem faithful teachers of\\nhis word.\\nAll the Israelites\\nstood at the door of the\\ncourt of the tabernacle and\\nMoses brought Aaron and\\nhis sons to the great laver, and there washed them with water. The water\\nin the laver had power only to wash their bodies but it was a type of the\\nblood which cleanseth from sin, and of the Spirit which sanctifies, or makes\\nholy. Ministers should be washed in the blood of Christ, and have their\\nhearts made clean by the Holy Spirit.\\nTHE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0144.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\n117\\nThen Moses put upon Aaron the holy garments which God com-\\nmanded to be made the coat, the girdle, the robe, the ephod, the breast-\\nplate, and the mitre. The coat was a long linen robe, with sleeves, and\\nwith a girdle worked in blue, and purple, and scarlet. The robe was a long,\\nblue, linen gown, without\\nsleeves round the bottom\\nwere golden bells, and fig-\\nures of pomegranates the\\nbells sounded when the\\nHigh Priest went into the\\nHol\\\\ T Place. The ephod\\nwas a short robe, worked\\nin blue, and purple, and\\nscarlet and gold it was\\nmade of liuen, and round\\nit was worn a beautiful\\ngirdle worked like the\\nephod. The breastplate was\\nmade of cloth, and was\\nvery thick. It had four\\nrings of gold to join it to\\nthe ephod twelve beautiful\\nstones were set in the breast-\\nplate, three in a row there\\nwere four rows of stones,\\nand even r stone had the\\nname of one of the tribes\\nof Israel written or cut\\nupon it.\\nThe tribes of Israel\\nwere the descendants of\\nthe twelve sons of Jacob. THE consecration of aaron.\\nThese stones in the breastplate were called Urini and Thummim, that is,\\nvery light, perfect and beautiful things. Aaron wore the breastplate upon\\nhis heart when he went into the Holy Place, because he was to remember\\nthe people there and pray for them to the Lord.\\nThe mitre was a linen turban, and in the front of it was a plate of", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0145.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "118 THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\ngold, on which was written, Holiness to the Lord; because the priests,\\nthe ministers of the Lord, must be holy in all they -do and say, wherever\\nthey are. Aaron s sous did not wear all the beautiful robes which their\\nfather wore. Only the High Priest had the ephod, and breastplate, and\\nrobe, and mitre.\\nBut Moses put upon the other priests the coat, and the girdle, and\\nthe bonnet or turban. All these holy and beautiful garments were put upon\\nAaron and his sons, to teach them how holy they ought to be, if they were\\nhonored to be priests and ministers of the Lord. All God s ministers, and\\nall God s people, must be so too they must have on Christ s righteousness,\\nand be renewed and sanctified by the Holy Spirit, or they cannot enter\\ninto Heaven.\\nVery soon after Aaron and his sons had been consecrated, they\\nbegan their holy work. God s ministers and people must not be idle all\\nhave something to do for God, and it should be begun directly. The\\nwork of the priests was to offer the sacrifices, and attend to the holy\\nservices of God in the tabernacle. The sacrifice of a lamb was offered\\nevery morning and every evening.\\nThis teaches us that we need to have our sins washed away every\\nday we live when we rise in the morning, and when we go to bed at\\nnight, we ought to pray for grace and pardon, and for every blessing\\nwhich we want. We should thank God for all he has given us, and ask\\nhim still to give us that which he sees right we should have. This was\\nwhat the Israelites were taught to do and if they prayed in faith, God\\nheard their prayer, and gave them his blessing.\\nOn the Sabbath day two more lambs were offered, besides the\\nmorning and evening sacrifices. We should love to worship God every\\nday but we should pray to him, and think about him, more on Sunday\\nthan on other days. The Sabbath is a day of holy rest it belongs to\\nGod, and it must all be spent in his service. The Israelites were not\\nallowed to do any work on God s holy day and we should try to be like\\nthem, and be very thankful that God has given us a Sabbath, on which\\nwe may learn to know and serve him better.\\nIn the beginning of every month, more sacrifices were to be offered;\\ntwo bullocks, one ram, seven lambs, and a kid. Besides all these sacrifices,\\nthere were holy days and feasts, which God commanded to be kept.\\nThere were three feasts in the year, when God commanded all the", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0146.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\n119\\nmen of Israel to appear before him. First, The feast of the Passover, in\\nremembrance of the angel passing over the houses of the Israelites, when\\nhe destroyed the first-born of Egypt. They were to take a lamb, and eat\\nEgypt;\\nit as they did in\\nholy to the Lord. This\\nfeast was in the spring of\\nthe year. The paschal\\nlamb was a type of Jesus\\nChrist slain for our sins,\\nto save our souls from\\ndestruction.\\nSecond, The feast\\nof weeks, or Pentecost,\\nfifty days after the Pass-\\nover. This feast was in\\nthe summer, when the corn\\nwas reaped and the people\\nwere then to give some\\nof their fruits as a thank-\\noffering to the Lord. It\\nis God who gives us all\\nour blessings, and we must\\nthank and praise him for\\nthem. The Israelites in\\nthe feast of weeks were to\\nremember that solemn time\\nwhen God gave them the\\nlaw from Sinai, fifty days\\nafter they went from\\nEgypt. It was on the\\nfeast of Pentecost that the\\ndisciples of Jesus, many\\nand to offer sacrifices, and to keep seven days\\nAARON OFFERING SACRIFICES.\\nyears after, met at Jerusalem, when the Holy Ghost came upon them, and\\ngave them power to speak different languages.\\nThird, In the autumn, the Israelites were commanded to keep another\\nholy time. The feast began by the blowing of trumpets, to call the people\\nto attend. A few days after, was the great dav of Atonement. Then they", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0147.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "120\\nTHE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\nwere to remember their sins, and repent, and be sorry for them. No work\\nmight be done; and sacrifices were to be offered bulls, and goats, and\\nlambs, to teach the people that their sins must be washed away in the\\nblood of the Great Sacrifice,,\\nto whom they must, in\\nfaith, look for salvation and\\neternal life.\\nAnd there are days\\nwhen we should remem-\\nber our sins, and pray for\\nforgiveness, too. Every\\nday we ought to do so,\\nbut some days still more\\nparticularly. The begin-\\nning of the year, and our\\nown birthdays, are very\\nsolemn times when we\\nshould remember our past\\nsins, and pray earnestly\\nto God to wash them all\\naway in the blood of\\nJesus, and to give us grace\\nto love and serve him\\nbetter for the future.\\nFive days after the\\nday of Atonement, God\\ncommanded the Israelites\\nto keep the feast of Tab-\\nernacles. This was a time\\nof joy for seven days.\\nTHE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. The Israe l ites we re to\\ngather branches from the trees, palm trees, and willow trees, and to make\\nbooths to live in, seven days. The women and children staid at their own\\nhouses but the men dwelt in the booths, praising and thanking God,\\ntill the seven days were ended; and then they went home again to\\ntheir families.\\nThe booths were not their homes; they lived in them only a short\\njpggr\\n-^^ilfflll\\nSpill\\nHlH\\n4\\nft*\\nffijk.\\nI\\n1 b\u00c2\u00a3 i\\n*Kv^i\\nHi\\nfr\u00c2\u00a7S9c j\\nli\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Mill*\\n-^iffffls\\ni\\ni^^l^ 2\\nv~\\nI/\\nBji. p .\u00c2\u00abft\\nI j\\nV\\n*^am\u00c2\u00a3i~M\\nW* mMk\\nI 1\\nt r\\n-vv^Hi- V\\nSj|^\\n1 j\\nJ^ \u00c2\u00abwSBs=l\\n*9^*j\\nC ^^p^^ nm\\nI\\ni\\ns. Hmj\\\\\\n8 %S i\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a01\\nm\\n1 W A\\nvf jj 1\\nV\\ni\\nsifc\\n1\\nM\\n**^#*\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00a7ij\\n^^Skp-*\\nla^^^R^^yi\\nZ-~Xr-~\\n=^3^ 3k -Ml\\nin\\niM\\nS01", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0148.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\n121\\ntime. The Israelites were taught by this to remember the time when they\\nlived in tents in the wilderness, and to thank God, in their pleasant\\nhouses in Canaan, for having brought them safely home. The home of\\nGod s people is above, in the Heavenly Canaan there they will live for\\never, and go out no more\\ninto a world of pain, and\\nsin, and sorrow.\\nThere were two of\\nAaron s sons who were\\npriests, whose names were\\nNadab and Abihu. They\\nwere not humble and holy\\nmen like their father,\\nbut proud and disobedient.\\nWithout God s command,\\nthey ran into the taber-\\nnacle, with their censers\\nin their hands, and offered\\nstrange fire, taken from\\nthe wrong place, and burnt\\nincense before the Lord.\\nGod was angry with this\\nrebellion, and he sent fire\\nupon them, which struck\\nthem dead in a moment.\\nAaron saw his wicked\\nsons die.\\nBut Moses told\\nAaron, that God had said\\nhe would be sanctified by\\nhis priests, and that when\\nthey came before him, they\\nmust come with reverence Nadab and Abihu had sinned, and God had\\npunished them, and therefore Aaron and his sons were not to mourn,\\nnor rend their clothes, but submit quietly to God. Then Aaron held\\nhis peace; he was full of sorrow; but he knew that God had done\\nright, and humbly submitted to his will he loved God s house, and law,\\nTHE SOXS OF AARON CONSUMED BY FIRE.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0149.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "122 THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\nand glory, more than he loved his wicked sons, for he knew that God\\nwould not afflict him without just cause.\\nParents cannot give their children new hearts they can talk to\\nthem, and teach them, and tell them what is right, and pray for them;\\nbut they can do no more they cannot save them only God has power to\\ndo that and therefore the children must themselves pray that their sins\\nma} be blotted out, and their hearts made new, and their souls saved;\\nthat they may follow their parents to heaven.\\nWhen Nadab and Abihu were killed, God gave Aaron some new\\ncommands, that he might not make God angry, as his sons had done.\\nThe High Priest was to go into the holy place, within the vail, only once\\na year, on the day of Atonement and then he was to put on the holy\\ngarments. He was to offer a bullock for a sacrifice for his own sin, and\\na goat for the sins of the people, and to sprinkle the blood upon the\\nMercy-seat in the most holy place and he was to take fire from the altar,\\nand bring it within the vail, and burn incense before the Lord.\\nAfterwards, Aaron was to go out, and bring another goat alive and\\nto lay both his hands upon the goat s head, and confess his sins, and the\\nsins of all the people, and put them upon the head of the goat. Then\\nAaron was to call a man, and tell him to lead the goat far away into the\\nwilderness, that it might be seen no more. This goat was called the scape-goat.\\nAaron, the Jewish High Priest, was a sinner like the people, and\\nneeded his own sins to be washed away. But our great High Priest, of\\nwhom Aaron was the type, needed no sacrifice, because he was all holy.\\nHe offered up the sacrifice of himself for our sins, not for his own and\\nthen he went into the Holy Place, into Heaven, there to intercede for us\\nbefore God. If we humbly come to Jesus, and ask him to take away our\\nsins, he will forgive them all. God will never remember them again\\nthey will be gone for ever. God says to those who come in faith to\\nJesus Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.\\nWhen the Israelites rested in their camp, waiting for the cloud to\\nmove, every one had his own place and each tribe was to keep by itself.\\nThe tribes were placed in the form of a square in the middle was the\\ntabernacle and the court to the East, near the tabernacle, were the tents\\nof Moses, Aaron, and the priests and the other Levites, the Kohathites,\\nthe Gershonites, and the Merarites, pitched their tents on the South, West,\\nand North.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0150.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\n123\\nThey were near the tabernacle, because it was their business to take\\ncare of it to take it down when the camps moved, and to put it up again\\nwhen they rested. The other tribes pitched their tents farther off. On the\\nEast, Issachar, Judah, and Zebulun on the South, Simeon, Reuben, and\\nGad on the West, Manas-\\nseh, Ephraim, and Benja-\\nmin and on the North,\\nNaphtali, Dan, and Asher.\\nWhen the cloud rested, the\\npeople rested too but when\\nthe cloud moved, they were\\nall to be ready for their\\njourney.\\nThey had lived\\nnearly a year at Mount\\nSinai and now the cloud\\nwas taken up, and they\\nall began to move. But\\nthere was no hurry nor\\nconfusion in the camps.\\nAll was orderly every\\none knew what he had\\nto do. First, the trumpets\\nwere sounded, and then\\nthe three tribes of the\\ncamp of Judah began to\\nmarch. The tabernacle\\nwas taken down by the\\nLevites the Gershonites\\ncarried the curtains, and\\nthe Merarites carried the\\nheavy boards and bars, THE SCAPE-GOAT.\\nand put them safely into wagons. Then the three tribes of Reuben s\\ncamp marched on the Kohathites followed, carrying the holy vessels of\\nthe tabernacle.\\nNext came Ephraim s camp and, last of all, the camp of Dan, and\\nall the sick and weak people who were unable to go fast. They journeyed", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0151.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "124 THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\n-wherever the cloud led them and when they began to move, Moses\\nprayed God to go with them and when they rested,- he prayed God to\\nstay with them. They were always under his kind care and keeping, and\\ntherefore safe wherever they went.\\nWhen we journey, we should ask God to go with us too and if\\nwe stay quietly at home, we should ask him to be with us there. While\\nwe live in this world, we have to move often from place to place it is not\\nour rest it is not our home it is like the wilderness where the Israelites\\nwandered so many years. But there is a home above Heaven is like the\\npleasant land of Canaan which God promised to give his people.\\nThe Lord now spoke to Moses, and told him to send twelve men,\\none man from every tribe, to the land of Canaan, which God promised to\\ngive to his people Israel. The twelve men were to see if the land was\\ngood or bad if the people there were strong or weak, few or many and\\nthey were to come back again, with some of the fruits of Canaan, to show\\nto the people. The men went away, and came to Hebron, and to a place\\ncalled Eshcol and there they found some beautiful vines, covered with\\nfine grapes. They cut down one branch, and put it upon a pole, and two\\nmen carried it it was very heavy, the grapes were so many and so large.\\nThey gathered some pomegranates and figs too and after forty days, the\\nspies came back again to the camp.\\nAll the people wished very much to know what the spies had seen,\\nand to look at the beautiful fruit they had brought. The men said, The\\nland of Canaan is a very beautiful and fruitful country full of corn, and\\nvines and honey; but we fear to go there, because the people are many,\\nand they are stronger than we. These men forgot that God was stronger\\nthan all, and that he had promised to fight for them, and to give them\\nthe land. They had no trust, no faith in their kind God and they tried\\nto frighten the people, that they might not go to the good land.\\nBut two of the spies were not like the others. Their names were\\nJoshua and Caleb. They trusted in God s promise, and did not fear.\\nThey said, Let us go up, and possess the land for we are able to over-\\ncome it. But the people were frightened, and began to weep they be-\\nlieved the spies more than they believed God, and forgot to trust to his power.\\nThen they murmured against Moses and Aaron, and said, Why\\ndid you bring us away from Egypt We were happier there than here\\nwe wish we had died in the wilderness. Let us choose a captain and", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0152.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\n125\\nreturn to Eg} 7 pt. Caleb and Joshua spoke gently, and tried to quiet\\nthem but the people became more angry, and began to throw stones at\\nCaleb and Joshua, to kill them.\\nThen they looked up towards the tabernacle, and there they saw\\nthe glory of the Lord, and\\nhe spoke to Moses with a\\nloud voice. He said he\\nwas now tired of his sin-\\nful people, and would not\\nlet them go to Canaan,\\nbut would destroy them\\nin the wilderness. But\\nMoses again prayed for\\nthem; he asked God not\\nto forsake the people for\\nwhom he had done so\\nmany wonderful things\\nbut to forgive them, and\\nspare them still.\\nGod heard Moses\\nprayer, and he promised\\nnot to destroy the people\\ndirectly but he said he\\ncould not allow them to\\ngo to Canaan, that good\\nland which he had prom-\\nised to his obedient peo-\\nple. His faithful servants\\nJoshua and Caleb, and\\nthose of the Israelites who\\nwere now children, should\\nRETURN OF THE SPIES FROM CANAAN.\\ngo but all the others\\nmust wander forty years in the wilderness, until they died. Their chil-\\ndren would then be grown up, and Joshua and Caleb should go with\\nthem to Canaan, without the sinful disobedient parents. The people\\ncried very much when they heard this. It was a great punishment to\\nthem. They could never again dwell in a settled home: never see a", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0153.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "126 THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\npleasant country any more but they must pass all their lives in the\\ndesert wilderness.\\nThe ten men who spoke evil of the land of Canaan, died of the\\nplague before the Lord but Caleb and Joshua were kept in safety. Then\\nthe perverse Israelites, instead of humbly submitting to their punishment,\\nsaid, We will go to Canaan, the land God promised to us. Moses\\nwarned them he told them not to go, because God was not with them, and\\ntheir enemies would come, and fight against them, and kill them but the\\npeople would not attend. They went to the top of the hill but Moses,\\nand the ark of God, and the blessing of God, did not go with them.\\nAnd had they power to take care of themselves They thought\\nproudly that they had but soon their enemies, the Anialekites, came\\ndown, and smote them, and drove them away.\\nAbout this time, while the Israelites were still in the wilderness,\\nanother very sad thing happened among them. A man was found gather-\\ning sticks on the Sabbath day. The people who saw him knew how\\nwrong this was so they took him directly, and brought him to Moses.\\nMoses was very sorry to hear what the man had done but he did not\\nhimself pass sentence upon him. God was the king and judge, and it\\nwas his law that had been disobeyed and therefore Moses went to God,\\nand told him all, and asked what must be done, and how the man must\\nbe punished.\\nAnd what did God say? Perhaps we might think that the man\\nhad committed only a little sin, and that God could not be very angry\\nwith him for gathering a few sticks on the Sabbath day. But we must\\nremember God does not look upon sin as we do. He cannot think dis-\\nobedience to his laws a little sin. The man knew it was wrong to do any\\nwork on the Sabbath. He had stood by Mount Sinai on that dreadful day\\nwhen the Lord came down upon it in fire, to give his commands to the\\npeople and he had heard him say, Remember the Sabbath day to keep\\nit holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work but the seventh\\nday is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any\\nwork. The man knew, too, that God had commanded the people to light\\nno fire, and to dress no food, on the Sabbath and that no manna was\\nsent that day, but a double portion the day before, to teach them how very\\nholy the Sabbath was. The man remembered all this, and yet he dared\\nto disobey the command of God. This was not a little sin, but a dreadful", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0154.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\n127\\nact of lebellion against God and the punishment of it was dreadful, too.\\nThe Lord said unto Moses, the man shall be surely put to death all\\nthe congregation shall stone him with stones. And all the congregation\\nstoned him with stones, and he died. Such was his dreadful fate.\\nThis is a sad story.\\nLearn from it how fearful\\nit is to disobey the com-\\nmands of God and par-\\nticularly the command\\nwhich tells us to keep\\nholy the Sabbath day.\\nMany people break that\\ncommand, even in this\\nChristian country. Some\\nbuy, and sell, and do their\\ndaily work on Sunday, as\\non other days. And others\\nspend the Sabbath in idle\\nconversation and amuse-\\nments.\\nBut God has told\\nus not to find our own\\npleasure, nor to speak our\\nown words, on his holy\\nday and he is as angry\\nwith those who break the\\nSabbath secretly, at home,\\nand in their own fami-\\nlies, as with those who\\nbreak it openly. These\\nwicked people, perhaps,\\nmay escape unpunished punishment of the sabbath-breaker.\\nfor many weeks, and months, and years but all their sins are known\\nto God, and written down in the book of his remembrance. And if they\\ndo not repent, they will surely be punished in another world, for breaking\\nGod s holy day here.\\nDo you love Sunday Do you love holy duties and holy pleasures", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0155.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "128 THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\nbetter than any others If not, you cannot be fit for heaven. The happy\\npeople there will spend eternity in praising God. This is their greatest\\nenjoyment but it would be no enjoyment to you, if you do not like to\\npraise and worship God now. If you do not serve him here, you cannot\\nlive with him, and sing his praises hereafter.\\nPray to God to give you a new heart, and to make you love him;\\nand then you will love holy things, and holy duties, and holy pleasures,\\nbetter than all the things of the world. You will be happy while you\\nlive; and when you die, you will go to that rest which remaineth for\\nthe people of God.\\nGod told the people that he would now show them whom he had\\nchosen to be his High Priest. He commanded Moses to take twelve rods,\\nand to write upon each of them the name of one of the twelve tribes and\\non the rod of the tribe of Levi he was to write Aaron s name, because\\nAaron was of the tribe of Levi. The rods were dry sticks there was no\\nlife in them. God commanded them all to be put into the tabernacle\\nbefore the ark they were to stay there one night, and God promised to\\nmake the rod of the man whom he chose to bud and blossom, to bring\\nforth flowers and fruit.\\nThis was a very wonderful thing to do but Moses did not disbelieve\\nGod, for He knew he had power to do what he pleased and, in faith and\\nobedience, Moses laid up the twelve rods before the Lord. The next\\nmorning Moses went into the tabernacle and looked at the rods eleven of\\nthem were still dry and withered but the rod of Levi, on which Aaron s\\nname was written, was full of buds, and blossoms, and almonds. Moses\\nbrought them all out, and called the men to take their rods and when\\nthey saw that Aaron s alone had budded, they knew that God had chosen\\nhim to be High Priest.\\nThe Lord told Moses to keep Aaron s rod safely; to put it into the\\nark, that it might be there always, to show the rebellious people that\\nAaron was God s chosen minister. The Israelites were obliged now to\\nsubmit to the Lord. He had punished them for their rebellion and he\\nhad shown them by a miracle, whom he had chosen for his priest, that\\nthey might not again speak against Aaron. But nevertheless these\\npeople were not humbled they cried, and said, We shall die, we shall\\nall perish\\nIt is sad when punishment makes sinners angry and rebellious.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0156.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\n129\\nGod sends it to make them repent and turn to him. He wishes all to be\\nsaved he wants none to perish and, when people forget him, he sends\\nsorrow to them, to make them remember him to see if they will confess\\ntheir sin, and ask for forgiveness. He is ready and waiting to forgive all\\nwho come hunibly to him\\nJesus is willing to save\\nthem, and to wash away\\ntheir sins the Holy Spirit\\nis willing to come into\\ntheir hearts, and to make\\nthem new and clean.\\nBut if sinners still\\nresist and rebel, God will\\nnot wait for ever. He will\\nat last cut them off, and\\nsend them away from him\\nto everlasting punishment.\\nThen it will be too late to\\nask for pardon and sal-\\nration for God will not\\nhear their prayer. We\\nmust go to Jesus now,\\nand all will be well for he\\nsays, Him that cometh\\nunto me, I will in no wise\\ncast out.\\nWhen the Israel-\\nites had buried Miriam\\nin Kadesh-Barnea, they\\nbegan to murmur again.\\nThere was no water to\\ndrink, and they forgot\\ntheir kind God who so often fed them from Heaven, and would not trust\\nhim. They said to Moses and Aaron, Why did you bring us here to kill\\nus with thirst We wish we had died with our brethren before the Lord?\\nThen Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the door of the tabernacle,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0and the glory of God appeared to them. He heard their prayer, and he\\n9\\nTHE BUDDING OF AARON S ROD.", "height": "3224", "width": "2323", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0157.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "130\\nTHE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\ntold them where to go for water, and what they must do. There was a\\ngreat rock in the wilderness, and God commanded them to go and speak\\nto that rock, and he said he would bring water out of it.\\nThen Moses took his rod, and he and Aaron called all the people\\nto stand before the rock,\\nto see the wonder that God\\nwas going to do. But Moses\\nand Aaron were tired of\\nthe rebellion and disobe-\\ndience of the people, and\\nthey became impatient and\\npassionate. This was\\nwrong; they should have\\nasked God to give them\\nmeekness, and gentleness,\\nand patience, and to help\\nthem to bear with the\\nIsraelites. But Moses and\\nAaron spoke very loudly,\\nand cried to the people,\\nHear, ye rebels, must we\\nbring water for you out of\\nthe rock\\nThen Moses smote\\nthe rock, and the water\\ncame out, and the people\\nand their cattle drank.\\nBut God was angry with\\nMoses and Aaron, because\\nthey had not obeyed him,\\nand when they came to\\nMount Hor, he spoke to\\nthem again, and told them that they must die, and not go to Canaan,\\nbecause they had rebelled against him at the rock Meribah. Aaron\\nmust die first; his work was ended, but Moses had much to do still..\\nAll God s people have work to do God gives them strength to do it I\\nand when it is finished, he takes them home to their rest.\\nMOSES SMITING THE ROCK.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0158.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS\\n]31\\nGod commanded Moses, and Aaron, and Bleazer, Aaron s son, to go\\nlip to the top of Mount Hor and there Moses was to take off the holy-\\ngarments from Aaron, and to put them upon Bleazer, and to make him\\nHigh Priest instead of Aaron. All three went up they knew why they\\nwent Aaron knew that\\nhe was now going to die,\\nthat he should never offer\\nsacrifices, and pray for his\\npeople again.\\nAaron knew, too,\\nthat he must have a sac-\\nrifice offered for him, and\\nthat he needed a High\\nPriest to intercede for\\nhim and he had faith in\\nthe Lord Jesus Christ,\\nthe great High Priest, who\\nshould come to offer up a\\nsacrifice for all the world\\nthe sacrifice of himself.\\nAaron s sins had all been\\ntaken away, his heart had\\nbeen made new by the\\nHoly Spirit, and he was\\nready to die. Moses took\\noff his brother s garments,\\nand put them upon Elea-\\nzer; and then Aaron said\\nfarewell to Moses, and to\\nhis son, and lay down on\\nthe mountain, and died.\\nMoses and Eleazer went THE DEATH 0F AARON,\\nback alone and when the Israelites saw that Aaron was dead, they wept\\nfor him thirty days. All the people mourned for their high-priest.\\nAfter Aaron s death, the people wet to Kibroth-Hataavah, and then\\nto Zalmonah and they murmured again, because they were tired of their\\nlong wanderings, and of the manna which God gave them. They forgot", "height": "3184", "width": "2299", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0159.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "132\\nTHE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\nwhy it was that they wandered so many years in the wilderness; it \\\\v w\\nfor the punishment of their sin, and they ought humbly to have submitted\\nto it; but their hearts were still proud, and rebellious, and unhumbled\\nbefore God.\\nGod now punished\\nhis sinful people again.\\nHe sent fiery serpents\\namong them and they\\nbit the people, and many\\ndied. God has power over\\nall creatures. He could\\nbring quails to feed his\\npeople, and now he could\\nbring serpents to kill\\nthem.\\nThe Israelites came\\nto Moses, and confessed\\ntheir sin and asked him\\nto pray for them to God.\\nMoses was always ready\\nto pray for them, and God\\nwas always ready to hear\\nhis prayers, and He told\\nMoses how the people\\nmust De cured of the\\nserpents bites. He com-\\nmanded Moses to make a\\nserpent of brass, and to\\nput it upon a pole and\\nhe said, that all who were\\nbitten, if they looked upon\\nthe brazen serpent, should live. The bitten Israelites did as God said, and\\nwere cured, and went on their journey again.\\nWe may learn a lesson from the story of the serpents. We are\\nlike the bitten Israelites we are all sick and perishing, not in our bodies,\\nbut in our souls. Satan, the old serpent, destroys the soul, as the fiery\\nserpents destroyed the body. We are all sinners; all in danger of perishing\\nTHE BRAZEN SERPENT.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0160.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS. 133\\nin sin; but there is a way to escape. What saved the bitten Israelites\\nThey looked upon the serpent of brass and lived.\\nAnd what can save us? Jesus says, Look unto me, and be ye\\nsaved. He was lifted up upon the cross, to die on it for our sins and\\nif we look to him in faith he has promised to save us, and to give us eternal\\nlife. He himself, when he was upon earth, said to Nicodemus, As Moses\\nlifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up\\nthat whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.\\nWhen the Israelites came to Heshbon, they fought with Sihon, king\\nof the Amorites. God had commanded all the Amorites to be slain, because\\nthey were wicked idolaters; and he promised to give their possessions\\nto his people Israel. The people were now coming into Canaan, and they\\npitched near Jericho. Very soon God would give them the land for the\\nforty years were almost ended, and then they were to go and possess it: not\\nthe rebellious and disobedient; they would all be dead; but their children,\\nwho were now growing up, should go, and Caleb and Joshua with them.\\nThere was a country near the land of the Amorites, called Moab\\nthe king s name was Balak. The Moabites heard what Israel had done to\\nthe Amorites, and other idolatrous people; and they began to be very much\\nfrightened, and thought that perhaps soon they should be destroyed too.\\nThese people did not go to God to help them they did not ask the\\nIsraelites to teach them what was right, nor forsake their idols, and their\\nwickedness but they thought they would try to bring evil upon God s\\npeople for they hated them, and wished their destruction.\\nThere was a prophet, but a wicked prophet, who lived a long way\\noff from Moab, named Balaam. Balak, king of Moab, sent his servants to\\nask Balaam to come and curse the Israelites and the servants took money\\nwith them to tempt Balaam to go. The messengers went to the wicked\\nprophet, and told him what their king said and when Balaam saw the\\nmoney he wished to go with them. He knew that it would be very\\nwicked to curse God s people, and he ought to have sent the servants away\\ndirectly but he said to them, Stay one night, and I will tell you what\\nGod shall say to me.\\nIn the night, God came to Balaam, and asked, Who are these\\nmen? Then the prophet told him who they were and why they came;\\nbut God said, Thou shalt not go thou shalt not curse my people for\\nthey are blessed. Balaam told the men, in the morning, what God said,", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0161.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "134 THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\naud they went back to their master. But soon after, Balak sent more\\nprinces to Balaam, and promised to give him great riches and honors if he\\nwould come and curse Israel. Balaam knew he could do nothing without\\nGod s leave, so he told the princes that he would ask God again. The\\nLord saw how rebellious and disobedient Balaam was, and he came to him\\nand said, If the man call thee, go; but thou shalt speak only what\\nI tell thee.\\nThen Balaam did not wait to be called, but rose early in the\\nmorning, and went with the princes. Balaam wished to go, and God let\\nhim have his wish but God s blessing was not with him. Balaam knew\\nhe was displeasing God he knew it was wrong to go to the enemies of\\nthe Lord, aud curse his people he knew God had told him at first not to\\ngo, and that he was now disobeying him.\\nWas Balaam happy? No he could not be happy; nothing can\\nmake us truly happy without God s blessing. When we wish for anything,\\nor wish to go anywhere, we ought to ask ourselves, Will God be pleased\\nif I do this Is it his will that I should do so, or that I should go there\\nbecause, if it is not, I cannot have his blessing, and then I cannot be\\nhappy. We should ask God to go with us, and to be with us wherever\\nwe are, and then all will be well.\\nBalaam rode upon his ass to go to Moab he thought how he\\nshould do as he pleased, and have the money Balak promised him but\\nGod would not give Balaam the power to curse his people and without\\nGod Balaam could do nothing. The angel of the Lord came to stand in\\nthe way before the disobedient prophet but Balaam was not thinking of\\nGod, and he did not see the angel. But the ass saw, and turned out of\\nthe road for fear, and Balaam beat the ass to turn it back again. Soon\\nafter they came to a road through some vineyards, with a wall on both\\nsides and the ass saw the angel standing with a sword drawn in his\\nhand, and pressed close to the wall, and hurt Balaam s foot, and he beat\\nthe ass again.\\nThen the road became very narrow the angel stood before, and there\\nwas no room to turn, and the ass fell down under Balaam. Then the\\nprophet was very angry, and he beat the poor ass again with his stick;\\nbut it was not the ass that was rebellious and disobedient no, it was the\\nprophet who was so wicked, and so foolish, and the angel was sent to him.\\nBalaam did not see the angel, and therefore he was cruel to the poor ass.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0162.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\n135\\nBut God lias power to do all things, and he did a very wonderful\\nthing then he opened the mouth of the ass, and enabled it to speak.\\nAnimals have not reason, nor the power of speaking, as most of us have\\nGod has not given them these things. He has given them instinct he\\nteaches them how to find\\ntheir food, and how to\\ntake care of their young.\\nHe has made them very\\nuseful to man.\\nWhat did the ass\\nsay It said, Am not\\nI thine ass, upon which\\nthou hast ridden for many\\nyears past? What have\\nI done Why hast thou\\nsmitten me? Balaam said,\\nBecause thou hast not\\nobeyed me I wish I had\\na sword in my hand, for\\nnow I would kill thee.\\nBut the ass said again, I\\nhave been thine ass a long\\ntime did I ever do so\\nbefore? And Balaam an-\\nswered, No.\\nThen God opened\\nthe eyes of Balaam, and\\nhe saw the angel standing\\nbefore him, with a sword in\\nhis hand, and he was very\\nmuch afraid, and fell down\\non his face. The angel\\nasked, Why hast thou smitten the ass these three times I came out to\\nmeet thee, because thou wast rebellious and disobedient, and the ass saw\\nme and turned away. If the ass had not turned away, I should have\\nkilled thee, and saved her alive. Then Balaam said, I have sinned,\\nI did not see thee standing in the way now then, if thou art displeased,\\nBALAAM MEETING THE ANGEE.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0163.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "136 THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\nI will go back again. But the angel said, No, go with the men to\\nMoab, but speak only what I tell thee.\\nThen the angel went away, and Balaam went on to Moab. But was\\nhe sorry for his disobedience No, he was frightened, but he was not\\nhumbled. He could not now curse Israel with his mouth for God, who\\nenabled the ass to speak, took away from Balaam the power to say what\\nhe wished. But his heart was not changed he was rebellious and dis-\\nobedient, and covetous still.\\nMoses was now a very old man, one hundred and twenty years old.\\nThe Israelites were close to Canaan, and soon they were to go there but\\nMoses must not go with them. He had sinned and disobeyed God at the\\nrock, and his sin must be punished. But God was not angry with Moses\\nnow. No Moses had repented, and he was forgiven, and his soul would\\ngo to Heaven. But God must punish his servant in this world Moses\\ncould not go to the good land which God promised to his people. God\\nsaid to him, Go unto the mountain Pisgah, and there I will show thee\\nall the land of Canaan thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt\\nnot go over thither.\\nThen God told him to take Joshua, and make him the leader of the\\npeople, to guide them when Moses was dead, Moses did all God com-\\nmanded. He took Joshua, and laid his hands upon him, and blessed him\\nand God gave him his Spirit, and made him wise and holy, that he might\\nknow how to command his people in the right way.\\nThen Moses called all the people together, that he might speak to\\nthem for the last time. They were the children who had grown up in the\\nwilderness the rebellious parents were dead. Moses spoke to them of all\\nthose wonders which God had done for them, and for their fathers, for\\nforty years. This last speech of Moses is written in the book of Deuter-\\nonomy. He told them all their past history, since they went from Egypt.\\nHe reminded them of God s kindness, and of their sins and rebellions,\\nand of all the laws which God had given them and then, when he had\\nfinished, he taught them a beautiful song of praise to God.\\nThe Israelites felt very sad when they heard their friend speak to\\nthem for the last time, and give them his dying blessing; and it was sad,\\ntoo, to Moses to say farewell to those he loved. But he knew they had a\\nfriend in Heaven, who would never forsake them if they truly served him;\\nand he told them to love and obey their kind and holy God. Then he", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0164.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\n137\\nblessed Joshua again, and told him not to fear, because God was with him\\nto strengthen and protect him and then he and Joshua went together into\\nthe tabernacle.\\nAnd now God called Moses, and told him that the time was come\\nfor him to go up to the\\nmountain, and die. God\\nshowed him from the\\nmount all the beautiful\\ncountry of Canaan, with\\nits hills, and fields, and\\nwater, and corn, and vine-\\nyards. Moses could not\\ngo there but he was\\ngoing to a better country,\\na heavenly one, where is\\nno pain, nor sickness, nor\\nsorrow, nor sin. Moses\\nlay down on the moun-\\ntain, and died, and the\\nLord buried him no man\\nknew where, nor how.\\nThen all the people saw\\nthat Moses was dead, and\\nthey wept for him in the\\nplains of Moab thirty days.\\nWhile the children\\nof Israel were in the wil-\\nderness the Lord gave them\\nvarious commands con-\\ncerning offerings. They\\nwere to purify themselves\\nwhen they had committed THE DEATH OF MOSES\\nany sin, and there were other offerings which were simply for purification.\\nOne of these was for women, who at certain times were expected to\\nmake some kind of an offering that they might be considered as pure and\\nun defiled. This was commanded by the Lord through Moses, after a child\\nhad been born. The mother was to touch no hallowed thing nor come", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0165.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "138\\nTHE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\ninto the sanctuary until the days of her purifying were fulfilled. After\\nthis, she was to bring a lamb of the first year for a bnrnt-offering, and a\\nyoung pigeou, or turtle-dove, for a sin-offering. These were to be brought\\nunto the priest at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. He was\\nto take them and offer\\nthem before the Lord, and\\nmake an atonement for the\\nwoman who brought the\\nofferings.\\nIf she was not able\\nto bring a lamb, then she\\nwas to bring two turtle-\\ndoves or two young pig-\\neons the one for a burnt-\\noffering, and the other for\\na sin-offering. In this way\\nthe priest was to make\\natonement for her, after\\nwhich she was considered\\nclean and undefiled. The\\nlaws concerning offerings\\nwere strict, and the Lord\\ngave them to Moses, tell-\\ning him to command the\\npeople to observe them.\\nThey were necessary for\\nthe children of Israel, that\\nthey might be reminded\\nconstantly that God was\\ntheir God, and that no\\nduty, however slight, must\\nOFFERINGS FOR THE PURIFICATION OF WOMEN, be overlooked.\\nThe children of Israel in the wilderness were afflicted with many\\ndiseases. One of these was leprosy, which has always been one of the\\nworst diseases and among the hardest to cure. In fact, there is a form of\\nleprosy for which no remedy has ever been found. It is not very common\\nin our days, although in Eastern countries it is sometimes found. Among", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0166.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\n139\\nthe Israelii^ it was so terrible that a special offering of purification was\\nmade for it according to God s command given to Moses.\\nIt showed itself first by a scab or bright spot. Then the person\\nnpon whom it appeared had to be brought unto the high priest or unto\\none of the sons of the\\npriests. If the disease\\nhad realty made its ap-\\npearance, the person was\\npronounced unclean. He\\nhad to be separated from\\nthe rest of the people\\nfirst, for seven days then,\\nif he had not recovered,\\nseven days more. If the\\nscab, or bright spot, had\\ndisappeared, he was pro-\\nnounced clean, but if the\\nscab spread, he was con-\\nstantly watched in order\\nthat the plague might not\\nspread.\\nA certain law was\\ngiven to Moses for the\\npurification of the leper\\nafter he had been healed.\\nThe priest was to go forth\\nout of the camp and he\\nwas to take for the leper,\\nwho was to be cleansed,\\ntwo birds, alive and clean,\\ncedar wood, scarlet, and\\nhyssop. One of the birds\\nwas killed in an earthen vessel over running water. The priest took the liv-\\ning bird, the cedar wood, the scarlet and the hissop, and dipped them and the\\nliving bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.\\nThen he sprinkled the person that was to be cleansed seven times, pro-\\nnounced him clean and let the living bird loose into the open field\\nPURIFICATION FOR LEPROSY.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0167.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "140\\nTHE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDFRNESS.\\nThe one to be cleansed Had to wash his clothes, shave off all his\\nhair, and wash himself in water; then it was ten days before he was\\nallowed to come into the camp. Next he was directed to make an offering\\nto show his gratitude for having been healed.\\nWhen there was no prospect that the leper would recover he was tc*\\nbe removed outside the\\ncamp and live by him-\\nself, lonely and desolate,,\\nthat he might not defile\\nthe people. We see what\\na terrible affliction leprosy\\nwas. No one was allowed\\nto come near the person\\nwho was suffering from\\nthis disease. Only God\\ncould cure it, and we read\\nof his doing it in sev-\\neral instances. Once it\\ncame suddenly upon the\\nhand of Moses, making\\nit white as snow, and then\\nwas taken away again,\\nleaving it as well as be-\\nfore. God sent it upon\\nMoses so that he might\\nshow that miracle to the\\nchildren of Israel in Egypt.\\nBut this dreadful\\ndisease was sometimes sent\\nupon persons for their sins.\\nIt was not taken away\\nquickly, but stayed and\\noften spread over their\\nIfedlfct ia JRlthg^gS\\n^OB \u00e2\u0084\u00a2T\\ny*/.: /I inputs\\n1\\nE~^p^j*\u00c2\u00a3gp\u00c2\u00a5%\\n1\\n1\\n%1 ^P\\n1\\n1\\n^^^^^^-I^Ictk^\\n^ll|: 1\\nA\\n\\\\4\\nj\\n11! 1 1\\nL\\nSENDING THE EEPER OUTSIDE THE CAMP.\\nwhole bodies. Such persons had to cry, Unclean as a warning to others.\\nMiriam would never have been cured of this disease except by a\\nmiracle. God had sent it upon her as a punishment for wickedness. Aaron\\nbegged that Miriam might be healed. And Moses prayed earnestly to the", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0168.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\n141\\nLord for her, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee. And the\\n[Lord heard his prayer and healed her of her leprosy.\\nThe laws concerning marriage and the duties of husbands to wives\\nand wives to husbands, were very rigid among the Israelites so much so\\nthat one offering was ap-\\npointed for jealousy. If\\nany man s wife went aside\\nand committed a trespass\\nagainst him, and the spirit\\nof jealousy came upon\\nhim, then he was to bring\\nhis wife unto the priest.\\nHe was also to bring an\\noffering for her, which\\nconsisted of barley meal.\\nNo oil was to be poured\\nnpon it, for it was an\\noffering of jealousy, bring-\\ning iniquity to remem-\\nhrance.\\nThe priest brought\\nher near and set her be-\\nfore the Lord. Then he\\ntook holy water in an\\nearthen vessel and put\\ninto it dust scraped from\\nthe floor of the tabernacle.\\nHe uncovered the woman s\\nhead and put the offering\\nof memorial in her hands.\\nIf she were guilty of sin,\\nthe priest was required to TH JEALOUSY OFFERING,\\npronounce a curse upon her. She was compelled to drink the bitter water,\\nafter which the priest took the jealousy offering, waved it before the Lord\\nand offered it upon the altar.\\nThis seems very strange to us, but it was intended by God to pre-\\nserve the purity of his people and to show them that they could not vio-", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0169.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "142 THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS.\\nlate their duties as husband and wife without suffering punishment and\\nmaking atonement. A great many observances were required in order to\\nkeep the people mindful of God s goodness, and to sanctify them to him-\\nself. When Christ came, these old sacrifices were done away with, because\\nhe was the one great sacrifice, and there did not need to be any other.\\nThe Lord said that when the Israelites should come into Canaan\\nand live there, and have the land for their own, each man must take the\\nfirst of the grain, and the first of the fruits, that should grow ripe in his\\nfields, and put them into a basket and bring them to the tabernacle. And\\nthe priest at the tabernacle should take the basket out of the man s hand,\\nand set it down before the altar of burnt-offering. Then the man\\nshould say, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which thou, O Lord,\\nhast given me.\\nAnd there he should worship the Lord. And the man was to leave\\nthe basket, with the firstfruits in it, at the tabernacle and the Lord said\\nthese should belong to the priest. For the Lord gave them to the priest,\\nbecause the priests would have no fields, or orchards, in which to raise\\ngrain and fruit for themselves. And the Lord commanded each man among\\nthe children of Israel to bring his firstfruits, every year, in this way,\\nas an offering, to the tabernacle.\\nThe people were told that on the day they should go over Jordan\\ninto Canaan, they must set up some great stones there and cover them\\nwith plaster. And while the plaster was yet soft, they must write on it\\nall the words of the law which God had given them. Then when the\\nplaster grew hard, those words would remain and every one who passed\\nby could read God s law written upon it.\\nIf the children of Israel would obey the Lord, the Lord would make\\nthem greater than any other nation. He would bless their children, their\\nland, and their cattle. Their enemies who should come out against them,\\nwould be afraid and flee away before them. And all the other nations of\\nthe earth should know that the Lord had chosen them for his people.\\nBut if they would not obey him, they should have great trouble.\\nThey would sow much seed in their fields, but reap only a little grain,\\nfor the locusts would come and destroy it they would plant their vines,\\nbut should not gather the grapes, for the worms would eat them. They\\nshould have sickness such as could not be cured. And the Lord would\\nsend against them a fierce nation that would not pity the old or the", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0170.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "RAHAB AND THE SPIES. MS\\nyoung, but would take their cattle and their food, and at last carry them\\nand their children away, as captives, to other lands where the children of\\nIsrael should be slaves to their enemies, and, like their enemies, would,\\nworship idols of wood and stone.\\nRAHAB AND THE SPIES.\\nYOfJ know that the land of Canaan was the land where Abraham,.\\nIsaac, and Jacob had lived, and God had promised them that it\\nshould belong to their children s children. At this time there\\nwere many nations living in this land the names of some of them were-\\nthe Ammonites, the Amorites, the Hivites, the Jebusites, and many others.\\nGod told the Israelites that they were to go to the cities of these\\npeople, and if they would let them in, then they might spare their lives\\nand. make them their servants, and they should pay tribute or taxes to the\\nIsraelites but if the people would not submit to this, then they were to\\nfight against them and destroy them entirely.\\nWhy was this Because these nations were exceedingly wicked,,\\ntherefore God told the Israelites to destroy them. They had gone on\\nfrom bad to worse, till their sins, like the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah,\\nseemed to cry to Heaven for punishment.\\nIt was about April now, and the sun had melted the snows of the\\nMountains of Lebanon, and these mountain torrents had made the river\\nJordan, generally small, swell to twice its usual size. The people of\\nJericho knew this, and they thought that they might rest in peace for\\nsome weeks to come, as the Israelites could not cross to fight their city yet.\\nBut ver\\\\ soon after the death of Moses, Joshua had secretly sent\\ntwo men to Jericho, to spy out the state of the city, and see how they\\ncould best get into it. It was a city with a strong wall all round it, and\\nthey kept careful watch at the gates, so as to keep out the Israelites.\\nHowever, these spies somehow managed to get into the city, and\\nthey went to lodge at the house of a woman named Rahab. They had\\nnot been there long before they found out that the King of Jericho knew\\nthat they had come into the city, and that they had gone into that very house.\\nThe king sent messengers to Rahab, and said to her, Give up the\\nspies that are in your house, for they have come to search out the country.\\nRahab answered, The men did come here, but I did not know", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0171.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "144\\nRAHAB AND THE SPIES.\\n-where they came from, and they are not here now. They went away\\nthrough the city gates just before they were shut at dark. I do not know\\nwhere they are gone but if you make haste I think you will overtake them.\\nSo the messengers went away through the city gates, and the gates\\nwere shut after them, and\\nthey went after the spies,\\nas far as the river Jordan.\\nWhen they were gone\\naway, Rahab went to the\\nspies, who were still in\\nher house, and said, I\\nmust hide you come with\\nme to the roof of the\\nThe roofs of\\nin the Bast are\\nthat people can\\nthem. This is\\nhouse.\\nhouses\\nflat, so\\nwalk on\\nthe place where, in the\\ncool of the day, the people\\nsit for fresh air, and often\\nin hot summer nights they\\nsleep here. Here, too, they\\nwould lay such things as\\nrequired to be dried by\\nthe heat of the sun, and it\\nwas here that Rahab had\\nlaid out the stalks of her\\nflax to dry.\\nThese stalks she\\nmeant to lay over the\\nmen, so that they might\\nbe hidden and that is\\nwhy she took them to the roof. Before the men lay down she told them\\nthe reason why she wanted to save them from the King of Jericho. She\\nsaid, I know that the Lord has given you this land, and all the people\\nwho dwell in the land are afraid because of you. We have heard how the\\nLord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you, when you came out of\\nESCAPE OF THE SPIES.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0172.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "RAHAB AND THE SPIES.\\n145\\nEgypt; we have heard how you have overcome all your enemies on the\\nother side of Jordan. I know, too, that God will give you the city, and I\\nwant you to promise me that you will save me and all my relations alive\\nwhen you take the city,\\neven as I have saved 3^ou\\nalive by not giving }^ou up\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2to the messengers.\\nThe spies said, We\\npromise faithfully to do as\\nyou say, if you will keep\\nour secret, and tell no one\\nthat we have been here.\\nHere is a piece of scarlet\\ncloth you must hang this\\nin your window, so that\\nwe may know your bouse\\nagain. We will deal truly\\nand kindty with all who\\nare in this house so you\\nmust bring your relations\\nbere, for if any of them\\nare in any other bouse, we\\ncannot save them, and the\\nfault will be their own.\\nThe woman said,\\nIt shall be as you say,\\nand she put the scarlet\\ncloth in her window. Then\\nshe let the men down by\\na cord through the win-\\ndow, for her house was\\nupon the town wall, and they reached the ground outside the wall. Then\\nthey went and hid themselves in the mountains for three days, until the\\nmen who went to look for them returned to Jericho.\\nSo then these spies at last got back to Joshua, and said, We shall\\nbe able to take the city, for all the people are afraid of us, and the Lord\\nwill deliver them into our hands.\\n10\\nRAHAB SAVED AND ADD HER POSSESSIONS.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0173.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "146 THE ISRAELITES PASS OVER JORDAN.\\nBut perhaps you will ask, Did not Rahab tell a lie? Yes, she\\ndid, and it was very wrong of her to do so. But we must pity her; for\\nas she was a poor heathen woman, she did not know, as you do, how\\nwicked it is to say the least thing that is not true. Afterwards, when the\\nchildren of Israel captured Jericho, Rahab was saved and all her posses-\\nsions. This heathen woman who befriended the Israelites escaped the\\ndestruction that came upon the city.\\nTHE ISRAELITES PASS OVER JORDAN.\\nGOD now commanded Joshua to take possession of the land which he\\npromised that Israel should inherit and he told him to be of\\ngood courage, and only to mind the holy law and obey it, and he\\nshould be sure to prosper.\\nJoshua then gave orders to the officers of the people to provide\\nvictuals for marching and he desired the Reubenites and Gadites, and the\\nhalf tribe of Manasseh, who had already got their possessions, to join their\\nbrethren and assist in taking the land, which they honorably agreed to do,\\nas they had before promised.\\nJoshua came to Jordan with all Israel, and after three days the\\nofficers went through the host, and desired them to follow the ark of the\\ncovenant, which the Levites should carry before them. This ark was a\\nsign of God s presence amongst them, and that he was their chief guide.\\nThey were to keep at the distance of two thousand cubits, or arms -lengths\\nfrom the elbow to the end of the middle finger, so that they might treat\\nthe ark with reverence, by not crowding upon it, and that they might see\\nit better than they could if they were all thronging near it.\\nSo the day following, the priests and the Levites took up the ark\\nof the covenant and went before the people. And God told Joshua that\\nhe would now honor him by a wonderful miracle, which should show Israel\\nthat he had chosen him to lead Israel, as he had before chosen Moses.\\nAnd Joshua told Israel what God would do for them, and that, as\\nsoon as the priests who bore the ark should touch the brink of the river\\nwith their feet, the waters of Jordan should stand upon an heap on one\\nside, so as not to flow down their channel while those on the other side\\nshould continue running without any fresh supply and so the bed, or\\nbottom of the river, should be dry for Israel to pass over, as the Red Sea", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0174.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES PASS OVER JORDAN. 147\\nhad before been for their fathers with Moses. Joshua also ordered twelve\\nmen to be selected, perhaps to go near and witness this miracle, for the\\nentire satisfaction of the rest.\\nSo the priests moved forward and stood in Jordan and the waters\\ndried up as Joshua had\\nforetold, although this hap-\\npened at the time of har-\\nvest, when the river over-\\nflowed its banks, from the\\ngreat quantit}^ of water;\\nwhich made the miracle\\nthe more wonderful. And\\nall the Israelites passed\\nover on dry ground, until\\nall the people were passed\\nclean over Jordan.\\nThe number of the\\nIsraelites at this time was\\nsix hundred thousand men\\nbesides women and chil-\\ndren, which was, indeed,\\na vast arm y j-et it is\\nwonderful that the Canaan-\\nites did not watch them,\\nand try to stop their cross-\\ning of Jordan. But per-\\nhaps they thought they\\ncould not pass the river\\nwhere the}^ did and if\\nthey saw that the waters\\nyielded to make ^vay for\\nthem, it was quite enough THE ARK passing over Jordan.\\nto frighten them, alarmed as they already were, and to make them run\\naway, wherever they could, for safety.\\nThe passing of Jordan was a great event, and Joshua, therefore,\\ncommanded twelve men, one from each tribe, and probably the same men\\nspoken of before, to take twelve stones from the spot where the priests", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0175.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "148\\nTHE ISRAELITES PASS OVER JORDAN.\\nfeet had stood, and to carry them to their nrst lodging-place over Jordan,\\n-where they were to leave them. And so, when at any future time their\\nchildren should ask, What mean you by these stones? they should be\\ntold, that the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant\\nof the Lord, when it passed\\nover Jordan, and that the\\nstones were a memorial\\nunto the children of Israel\\nfor ever.\\nThe drying up of\\nJordan must have been\\nseen for some miles, and\\nthe news of the wonderful\\nevent, with the passage of\\nthe Israelites, soon spread\\namong the Canaanites, and\\nfilled them with the great-\\nest alarm, neither was\\nthere spirit in them any\\nmore, because of the chil-\\ndren of Israel.\\nAnd God now com-\\nmanded Joshua to mark\\nthe Israelites of the new\\ngeneration with the sign\\nof his covenant with them,\\nand they kept a solemn\\npassover, which they had\\nbeen denied in their wan-\\nderings in the wilderness.\\nThe country people natu-\\nTHE ANGEL APPEARING TO JOSHUA. rallj fled away from the\\ninvading armies, and all their corn in the field and in store became the\\nproperty of the Israelites, who took it and fed upon it, as part of their promised\\npossession given them by that God who caused it to grow and having no\\nmore need of manna, that miraculous supply of food ceased, and they\\ndid eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0176.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "THE ISRAELITES PASS OVER JORDAN.\\n149\\nNext, we have an account of a wonderful appearance to Joshua.\\nThe person who appeared to him while he was, perhaps, thoughtfully\\nlooking around Jericho, and contriving how to take it, was no common\\nbeing, or he would not have worshipped him and from the command to\\ntake off his shoes, which\\nwas an act of reverence,\\nit was that Angel who\\nappeared in the burning\\nbush to Moses. He now\\ntold Joshua that he had\\ncome as Captain of the\\nLord s host, and Joshua\\nmight well be encouraged\\nwith the assurance that God\\nwould fight for him, and\\ngive him the promised\\nland for his people.\\nWhen the people of\\nJericho saw the armies of\\nIsrael coming they shut\\nup the strong gates of their\\ncity; but though this would\\nhave preserved them from\\nusual danger, yet now that\\nGod had given them up to\\nIsrael, nothing could save\\nthem. But the city was\\nto be taken in a very won-\\nderful way, to show that,\\nafter all, the hand of God\\nwas in it.\\nJoshua had no orders THE DESTRUCTION OF JERICHO.\\nto batter it, or scale its walls. The men of war were only to march round\\nit once a day for six days and the ark was to be carried round, and seven\\npriests were to march before it, blowing seven trumpets of rams -horns.\\nAnd on the seventh day they were to walk round the city seven times,\\nand the priests were to blow with their trumpets and at a long blast of", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0177.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "150\\nTHE ISRAELITES PASS OVER JORDAN.\\nthe trumpets, the people were to make a loud shouting, when the wall of\\nthe city should fall down flat, and every man could get in without difficulty.\\nSo the armed men went before the priests that blew the trumpets,\\nand a number of people followed the ark, and they marched round the\\ncity daily till the seventh\\nday. Then Joshua gave\\nthe word, Shout, for the\\nLord hath given you the\\ncity. And he commanded\\nthat everything should be\\ndestroyed in the city, ex-\\ncept Rahab and her family,\\nand the valuable metals\\nthat might be found, which\\nwere to be preserved for\\nsacred uses.\\nAnd when the peo-\\nple shouted, down fell the\\nwall, and then the Israelites\\nmarched in, and they\\nutterly destroyed all that\\nwas in the city, both man\\nand woman, young and old,\\nand ox, and sheep, and ass,\\nwith the edge of the sword.\\nThe city was also\\nburnt with fire, but Rahab\\nand her family were, by\\norder of Joshua, saved by the\\nspies, who took them out of\\nthe camp, and she ever after\\njoshua commanding the sun To stand stiix. li vec i w ith the Israelites.\\nThe people of Gibeon united with Israel then Adonizedek, who was\\nthe king of Jerusalem, sent to Hoham, king of Hebron, and unto Piram,\\nking of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia, king of Lachish, and unto Debir, king\\nof Bglon, saying, Come up unto me and help me, that we may smite Gib-\\neon; for it hath made peace with Joshua, and with the children of Israel.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0178.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL. 151\\nSo the kings united with. Adonizedek, and marched against Gibeon.\\nAnd when the people saw so great an army against them, they were again\\nin a fright, and they sent off to Joshua with all speed, saying, Come up\\nto us quickly, and save us, and help us.\\nNow, as Joshua had given his word, he would not kill the Gibeonites;\\nand he would not, if he could help it, let others kill them. So he marched\\nall night to Gibeon, with all his arm}^ and God told him to fear nothing.\\nAnd he fell upon the five kings, and thejr being surprised, fled on every\\nside, and Joshua pursued them. And God made it hail, and the storm fell\\nupon them, and the stones were so large and came down with such a force\\nthat they were more which died with hailstones, than they whom the\\nchildren of Israel slew with the sword.\\nThe battle, probably, began very early in the morning, and Joshua\\nchased the five kings till the evening. And now the sun and moon were\\nboth in sight the sun was setting and the moon rising. But Joshua had\\nuot destroyed all his enemies, and he spoke to the Lord before Israel, that\\nthe sun might stand still upon Gibeon, and the moon in the valley of\\nAjalon, over which they both seemed to shine, and so, by the day and the\\nlight holding out longer, he might completely defeat his foes. And the\\nsun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged them-\\nselves upon their enemies.\\nThus was Joshua highly honored before all the people and God\\nshowed to the heathen how foolish they were to worship the sun and moon,\\nwhich they did, when he who made them could do as he pleased with\\nthem against themselves, and was alone worthy to be adored.\\nSTORY OF THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\nGOD sent Jabin king of Canaan to fight against Israel, and conquer\\nthem. He was very cruel, and they suffered much under his power\\nfor twenty years. God did not fight for them then because they\\nhad rebelled, and made him turn away from them. The Israelites felt\\nthis and they remembered their sins, and repented and cried to the Lord\\nto forgive and help them. And did God attend to these rebellious people?\\nYes, for he is so merciful that he never sends away any who humbly pray\\nto him.\\nThere was a very good woman living at that time, named Deborah.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0179.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "152\\nTHE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\nShe dwelt under the palm tree between Ramah and Bethel and there she\\nprayed, and sang praises to God, and talked to and taught all the people\\nwho came to see her. She was a very wise woman God had given her\\nthe best wisdom, the knowledge of himself; and he taught her to prophesy;\\nand to know the future,\\nthat she might tell the\\nIsraelites what they must\\ndo, and how they could\\nbe delivered from their\\ncruel enemy, Jabin.\\nWhen the Israelites\\nbegan to cry to God, Deb-\\norah, at his command,\\nsent for a brave man,\\nnamed Barak, and said to\\nhim, Go now, and call\\nmen out of the tribes of\\nZebulun and Naphtali,\\nand take them to fight\\nagainst Sisera, the captain\\nof Jabin s army for God\\npromises to give us the\\nvictory. Then Barak said,\\nIf thou wilt go with me,\\nI will go; so Deborah\\nwent with him and 10,000\\nmen to fight against Sis.\\nera. But Deborah told\\nBarak, that he should not\\nkill Sisera, but that God\\nwould give the wicked\\nSISERA SLAIN BY JAEL. captain into the hands of\\na woman. So Barak and his army went and fought against Sisera and\\nsoon the Israelites had the victory, because God was with them. Then\\nSisera came down from his chariot, and ran away on his feet to escape\\nfrom Barak. There was a man named Heber who was at peace with\\nJabin and Sisera ran to Heber s tent for safety. The name of the man s", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0180.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\n153\\nwife was Jael. When J ael saw Sisera coming, she went out to meet him,\\nand said, Come in, eoiLe in, fear not. So Sisera came in, and lay down;\\nand she covered him with a mantle.\\nThen he asked for water to drink and she gave him milk, and he\\ndrank, and lay down again.\\nThen he said, Stand by\\nthe door, and if any one\\nask if I am here, *ay,\\nNo. Sisera was soon\\nasleep, for he was weary\\nwith fighting and running\\nso far; and then Jael went\\nvery softly, and took a\\nlarge nail, and a hammer,\\nand hammered the nail\\ninto Sisera s head and down\\ninto the ground, while he\\nslept, and killed him. Soon\\nafter, Barak came to the\\ndoor of the tent, and Jael\\ncalled him in, and showed\\nhim his enemy lying dead\\nupon the ground.\\nBarak and Deborah\\nfelt that it was the Lord,\\nnot themselves, nor their\\nsoldiers, who had gained\\nthe victory, and they sang\\na beautiful song of praise\\nto him. How glad the\\nIsraelites were to be in\\npeace again War is a sad\\nthing. If we live in a peaceful country, let us thank God for it because\\nit is he who gives us peace, as well as all our other mercies.\\nOne of the judges of Israel was Othniel. This man was warlike,\\nand was a noted conqueror. We have read of Caleb, who was one of\\nthe spies sent to Canaan when the Israelites were in the wilderness.\\nCALEB GIVING HIS DAUGHTER TO OTHNIEL.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0181.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "154\\nTHE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\nCaleb was a man of excellent character, on accouut of which he was\\npermitted to enter the promised land. Caleb promised that any one who\\nshould smite and capture Kirjathsepher should have his daughter for his\\nwife. When Othuiel gained the victory, Caleb made his word good, and\\nhis daughter Achsa became\\nthe wife of this judge in\\nIsrael.\\nThe Israelites again\\nforgot the Lord, and as a\\npunishment were given\\nover to the Midianites,\\nfrom fear of whom they\\nfled to mountains, caves\\nand other secret places. In\\ntheir trouble they remem-\\nbered the Lord whom they\\nhad forsaken, and cried and\\nprayed to him for help,\\nand God heard them, as\\nhe had often done before.\\nHe sent a prophet to them\\npromising that he would\\nhelp them. There was at\\nthat time, in a place named\\nOphrah, a young man of\\ngreat valor, Gideon, the\\nson of Joash. While he\\nwas threshing wheat, in-\\ntending to hide it from\\nthe Midianites, an angel\\ncame and sat under an\\noak-tree near him. The\\nangel said to Gideon, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.\\nThe young man asked, if the Lord was with his people, why did\\nthey suffer so much from the Midianites? and was told that he would be\\nsent to save Israel. Gideon found it hard to believe this, for his family\\nwere poor, and he was the least in his father s house. Gideon fetched food,\\nGIDEON OFFERING SACRIFICE.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0182.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\n155\\na kid and some cakes, and offered them to the angel, who told him to\\nplace them upon a piece of rock, and showed his power by touching with\\nhis staff the food, and fire came from the rock, and then Gideon knew that he\\nwas an angel of the Lord, and built an altar on the spot where he had appeared.\\nBy command of the\\nLord, Gideon threw down\\nan altar which his father\\nhad built to Baal, the false\\ngod, and cut down the\\ngrove by it where the peo-\\nple worshipped the idol.\\nAfter that the Spirit of the\\nLord came upon Gideon,\\nand he sent to the men of\\nthe tribes to come to him.\\nHe sought a sign from\\nGod to know if he was\\ndoing right. He put a\\nfleece of wool upon the\\nfloor, and said that, if in\\nthe morning the dew was\\non the fleece only and all\\nthe ground about was\\ndry, he should know that\\nGod would save Israel by\\nhis hand.\\nIn the morning he\\nfound that the fleece was\\nso wet that he could\\nwring out a bowlful of\\nwater. To make sure\\nthat he had not been mis-\\ntaken, he asked the Lord\\nHe would again\\nGIDEON AND HIS FLEECE\\nto give him another sign\\nspread out the fleece, and if it remained dry, and there was dew on the\\nground around, he would know that the Lord was with him. In the\\nmorning it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all\\nthe ground.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0183.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "156\\nTHE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\nGideon aua the Israelites made ready to meet the Midianites, in the\\nvalley by the hill of Moreh. The Lord knew that the people were vain,\\nand if the Midianites were beaten, would take the glory to themselves, as\\nthere were more than thirty thousand of them, and he told Gideon to pro-\\nclaim that whosoever was\\nfearful and afraid might\\ngo away. Twenty-two\\nthousand went away, leav-\\ning only ten thousand\\nunder brave Gideon to\\nfight the Midianites. But\\nthey were too many, and\\nthe Lord told Gideon to\\ntake them to the river,\\nand notice how they drank.\\nThree hundred lapped the\\nwater as a dog laps, the\\nothers knelt down to drink.\\nWe read that then the\\nLord said unto Gideon,\\nBy the three hundred men\\nthat lapped will I save\\nyou, and deliver the Mid-\\nianites into thine hand\\nand let all the other peo-\\nple go every man unto\\nhis place.\\nThere were then\\nonly three hundred men\\nto stand by Gideon against\\nthe Midianites, who were\\nGIDEON and HIS LITTLE army. !i ke grasshoppers for\\nmultitude, and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seaside\\nfor multitude. But the Lord had told Gideon that they were delivered into\\nhis hand, and he divided his small army of three hundred into three com-\\npanies. Each man had a trumpet and a lamp hidden in a pitcher. In the\\nnight they went close to the camp of the Midianites, and suddenly blew their", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0184.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\n157\\ntrumpets, and, breaking the pitchers, showed their lights, shouting loudly,\\nThe sword of the Lord and of Gideon. The Midianites were struck\\nwith sudden fear, and fled, being followed by the Israelites, who killed many.\\nAfterwards Gideon fought with and took the two kings of Midian,\\nand destroyed the cities of\\nSuccoth and Penuel. The\\npeople of Israel wished\\nGideon to rule over them\\nas their king, and after\\nhim his son and his son s\\nson, for, said they, thou\\nhast delivered us from the\\nhand of Midian. But he\\nwould not, for, he said, the\\nLord should rule over\\nthem. The enemies whom\\nthey had killed wore\\ngolden earrings, and Gid-\\neon asked that they should\\nbe given to him. There\\nwere so many of these\\nornaments which had been\\ntaken from the dead Mid-\\nianites that they were of\\nthe value of a thousand\\nand seven hundred shek-\\nels, or about three thou-\\nsand pounds of our money.\\nThere were also\\nornaments and collars,\\nand purple robes, that the\\nkings of Midian had worn,\\nbesides chains that were about the necks of the camels. Gideon made of\\nthem a splendid ephod or robe, adorned with gold and precious stones, to\\nbe worn by the high priests, and kept it in Ophrah, where, we are told,\\nit became a snare unto Gideon and to his house, for the foolish Israel-\\nites, forgetting again the power of the Lord, worshipped this fine robe, with\\nGIDEON DEFEATING THE MIDIANITES.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0185.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "158 THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\nits gold and its jewels, and, perhaps, tempted even Gideon and his family\\nto think too much of the beautiful and costly ephod.\\nGideon was a wise and able ruler, as well as a brave soldier. The\\ncountry was in quietness under him for forty years, and he died at a good\\nold age, and was buried in the grave of his father in Ophrah. After his\\ndeath, the people once more became idolaters, and made the idol, Baal-\\nberith, their god. The Lord was forgotten, and the brave and wise Gideon\\ntoo for we read in the Bible, The children of Israel remembered not the\\nLord their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their\\nenemies on every side neither showed they kindness to the house of\\nGideon, according to all the goodness which he had showed unto Israel.\\nSo easily did the Israelites forget what the prophet Moses had taught, and\\nwhat Joshua on his deathbed had bidden them remember the power of\\nthe Lord and the blessings he had promised to his faithful people.\\nGideon had seventy-one sons, and after his death one of them, Abi-\\nmelech, having persuaded the people of Shechem that his brothers would\\nall be kings over them, and it would be better they should choose him, by\\ntheir help killed all his brothers, except the youngest, Jotham, who hid\\nhimself. Having been made king, Abimelech reigned three years, and\\nafter that time the men of Shechem rebelled against him, and there was\\nfierce fighting, in which Abimelech was killed.\\nHe was, with his soldiers, about to set fire to a tower, in which\\nwere many people, when a woman threw down a millstone which struck\\nhim on the head, and, as he thought it would be a disgrace for a king and\\na brave warrior to be killed by a woman, he ordered one of his young\\nmen to slay him with his sword.\\nThere was another famous ruler over Israel, Jephthah, a Gileadite,\\nand mighty man of valor. When the people of Ammon made war against\\nIsrael, the Gileadites wished him to be their leader. In his youth\\nJephthah had been ill-treated by the people, and he asked them if, now\\nthat they wanted his help, they would choose him to be their head. They\\npromised that they would, and, having been made captain, he sent to the\\nking of Ammon a message, saying that the land had been given by the\\nLord to the Israelites, and that therefore he could not possess it, and did\\nwrong to make war against the Gileadites.\\nBut the king would not listen to his words. Jephthah then made a\\nsolemn vow that, if the Lord would give him the victory, he would sacri-", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0186.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\n159\\nfice the first living thing that came out of his house to meet him on his\\nreturn. There was a great battle and the Ammonites were beaten, Jeph-\\nthah and the Gileadites gaining a victor} and destro}dng twenty cities.\\nThe people of Gilead were full of joy when their brave captain\\nreturned, and as he came\\nnear to his house at Miz-\\npeh, his daughter, his only\\nchild, ran out to meet him,\\nplaying on the timbrel,\\nand dancing in her joy\\nto see her father again.\\nBut the sight of\\nher brought sorrow to her\\nfather. He remembered\\nthe vow he had made, and\\nhis dear daughter was the\\nfirst living thing that came\\nout of his house to meet\\nhim. Full of grief he told\\nher that he had made a\\nvow unto the Lord, which\\nhe must keep. The good\\nand obedient girl was ready\\nto die rather than her\\nfather should break his\\nvow, and only asked that\\nshe might have two months\\nfor prayer and serious\\nthought before she was\\nslain. She went with her\\nyoung companions into the\\nj TEPHTHAH MEETING HIS DAUGHTER.\\nmountains, and at the end J\\nof two months came back, and her father killed her and made of her a\\nburnt offering as he had vowed to the Lord he would. For many, many\\nyears afterwards, the young girls of Israel lamented the fate of Jephthah s\\ndaughter, setting apart four days every year for mourning.\\nThere were other Judges of Israel after Jephthah Ibzan, Elon, and", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0187.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "160\\nTHE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\nAbdon but they could not keep the people from idolatry, and for forty\\nyears they were, for punishment, subject to the Philistines. In that time\\nof trouble, there was a man of the family of the Danites, named Manoah.\\nHe had been married many years, but had no children. An angel appeared\\nto his wife, and promised\\nher, as before angels had\\npromised Sarah, the wife\\nof Abraham, that she\\nshould have a son.\\nBut she must not\\ndrink wine or any strong\\ndrink, and when the child\\nwas born his head must\\nnot be shaved, for he\\nwould be a Nazarite unto\\nGod. The Nazarites were\\ncertain persons who were\\nset apart for the service of\\nGod, and made vows, that\\nthey would never drink\\nstrong drink or shave\\ntheir heads as other Jews\\ndid. They were looked\\nupon as holy to the Lord.\\nThe angel came\\nagain, and then the woman\\ncalled her husband Ma-\\nnoah, who, not knowing\\nthat the stranger was an\\nangel, offered to roast a\\nkid that he might have\\nmanoah offering sacrifice. food. The angel told him\\nthat he would not eat, but that Manoah should make a burnt offering to\\nthe Lord. He did so, and, as the fire went upwards, the angel ascended in\\nthe flame, and they saw him no more. Then the man and woman knew\\nthat the} had seen an angel, and fell on their faces in fear.\\nManoah thought that they would surely die, because they had seen", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0188.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\n161\\nGod, but his wife, who had greater faith in his love, said, If the Lord\\nwere pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and n\\nmeat offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all thes?\\nthings, nor would have told us such things as these.\\nWhen the child was born he was named Samson, which means, in\\nHebrew, Hear the second\\ntime, because the angel\\ncame twice, and twice told\\nhis mother what she should\\ndo. As he grew up the\\nLord blessed him, and the\\nSpirit of God came to\\nhim. He was very strong,\\nstronger than any young\\nman in Israel, or than had\\never been known. When\\nhe was a man, he wished\\nto marry a Philistine\\nwoman, which grieved his\\nparents, for the Philistines\\nwere their hard masters,\\nfind they wished their son\\nto marry one of their\\nown people.\\nSamson, however,\\nwas firm, and his father\\nand mother gave way to\\nhim and went with him\\nto Timnath, where the\\nyoung Philistine woman\\nlived. On their way there,\\nSamson met a young\\nlion which would have\\nkilled him, but so strong was he, that he seized and rent it as he would\\nbave rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand. He did not tell his\\nfather and mother what he had done, but soon afterwards came back to\\nthe place where the dead lion was, and he found that a swarm of bees\\n11\\nSAMSON SLAYING A LION.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0189.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "162 THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\nwere, with their honey, in the body of the lion. He took the honey, ate\\nsome, and gave the rest of it to his father and mother, but did not tell\\nthem where he had found it.\\nSamson married, and at the feast there was a great company, and\\nSamson said he would ask them a riddle, and if they could find it out in\\na week from that time, he would give them thirty sheets and thirty\\nchanges of garments but if they could not find it out, they should give\\nthe came to him. The riddle was, Out of the eater came forth meat, and\\nout of the strong came forth sweetness. They could not find out what\\nwas meant, and persuaded Samson s wife to try to make him tell her the\\nanswer, threatening that if she did not, they would burn her father s house.\\nShe went to Samson weeping, and told him he did not love her if\\nhe would not tell her what the meaning of the riddle was. He refused,\\nsaying he had not even told his father and his m /ther, and he would not\\ntell her. But on the seventh day of the feast, he could not bear any\\nlonger to see her in grief, and told her about the honey in the body of\\nthe lion, and she directly let her people know what the answer was. They\\ncame to Samson and told him, and then he knew that his wife had\\ndeceived him, and in his anger slew thirty men of Ashkelon, took their\\ngarments and gave them to those who had answered the riddle and then,\\nleaving his wife behind him, went back to his father s house.\\nSome time afterwards he desired to make up the quarrel, and\\nreturned with a present for his wife, but found that she had been given in\\nmarriage to anothei, and in his anger, he caught three hundred foxes, tied\\nthem in couples, tail to tail; with a firebrand between the tails, and let\\nthem loose among the corn of the Philistines, which was burnt up, as were\\nthe vines and the olives. When it was found that Samson had done this\\nbecause of the treatment he had received from his wife and her father, the\\nPhilistines burned them both. But Samson, came again, and smote them\\nwith great slaughter, and then went and dwelt on the top of the rock Ktam.\\nThe Philistines were determined to destroy Samson if they could,\\nand they sent an army into judah, saying that they had come to bind\\nSamson and to do to him as he had done to them. The people of Judah\\nwere afraid of the Philistines, and three thousand of them went to the top\\nof the rock where Samson was, asked him if he did not know that the\\nPhilistines were their masters, and said they were come to bind him that\\nthey might give him up to them. Samson said, Swear unto me, that", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0190.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\n163\\nyoa will not fall upon me yourselves. They answered, No; but we\\nwill bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will\\nnot kill thee.\\nAnd they bound him with two new cords, and took him towards the\\nPhilistines, who shouted\\nwith joy when they saw\\nthe strong man, their\\nfamous enemy who had\\ndone such terrible things,\\nabout to be given up to\\nthem. But they were too\\nhasty in their joy, for Sam-\\nson put out his strength,\\nburst the new ropes as\\neasily as if they had been\\nrotten threads, and leaped\\nforward a free man. He\\nhad no sword or other\\nweapon but lying near\\nhim was the j awbone of an\\nass, and, seizing it, he\\nrushed among the Philis-\\ntines, and slew a thousand\\nmen with it.\\nAfter this no man\\ndared come against Sam-\\nson. He was chosen Judge\\nof the people, and for\\ntwenty years ruled them.\\nThe Philistines would have\\nkilled him, but they all\\nfeared to attack him openly,\\nand waited for a chance of seizing mm unawares.\\nhad secured him at a town named Gaza, where he stayed one night,\\nand lay in wait to attack him in the morning, having locked and barred\\nthe gates, so that they thought he could not pass out. Samson, how-\\never, knew of their plans, and at midnight pulled up the posts of the\\nSAMSON SLAYING THE PHILISTINES.\\nhim unawares. They thought they", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0191.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "164 THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\ngates, and carried them, with the heavy doors and the bars,, to the top of\\na hill near Hebron.\\nThis great effort of strength made the Philistines hate and fear\\nSamson all the more, and they determined to find ont the secret of his\\nstrength, and kill him if they could. He loved a woman named Delilah,\\nand the Philistines gained her over to help them, for she was a bad\\nwoman. She agreed to try to persuade Samson to tell her what made him\\nso strong, and what there was that could bind him so that he could\\nnot help himself.\\nSamson thought she was trying to deceive him, and told her that if\\nhe were bound with seven green withes (thin twigs of willow) that had\\nnever been dried, he should be as weak as any other man. She bound\\nhim tightly with them, and, armed men being ready to kill him, Delilah\\ncalled to him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. In a moment he\\nbroke the withes, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire,\\nand we know how easily that breaks. Delilah pretended to be angry and\\nsorry that Samson had deceived her, and again asked him to tell her truly\\nhow he could be bound securely.\\nStill he would not trust her, but said if he were bound with new\\nropes that had never been used he would be weak. We suppose the\\nwoman had never heard how he snapped the ropes by which he was tied\\non the rock Etam, or she would not have trusted to ropes to weaken him.\\nShe tied him and again called out that the Philistines were upon him.\\nAgain he broke them as if they were thread, and again the Philistines\\nwho were lying in wait were disappointed.\\nOnce more Delilah tried to make Samson tell her the secret of his\\ngreat strength, and once more he deceived her. Like other women of the\\ntime she wove her own garments, and he told her that if she wove his\\nseven locks of hair with the web of her work his strength would go from\\nhim. She did so, but when awoke by her cry that the Philistines were\\nupon him, he sprang up, carrying with him the web and a part of the loom.\\nDay after day did she ask him to tell her the truth about his\\nstrength, and at length his soul was vexed unto death, and, to quiet\\nher, he told her his secret, that, being a Nazarite, his head had never been\\nshaved, and that if his hair were taken off, he should lose the strength\\nthe Lord had given him, and be as weak as any other man. Delilah\\nknew by his manner that now he was telling the truth, and sent to the", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0192.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\n165\\nPhilistine lords a message to come up this once, for, said she, he hath\\nshown me all his heart. They came as she wished and gave her money\\nfor her wicked, deceitful conduct.\\nWhen Samson was asleep, she brought in a man who shaved the\\nseven locks of hair from\\nhis head. It was well for\\nhim, and for Delilah too,\\nperhaps, that Samson did\\nnot wake too soon but\\nwhen he did wake he felt\\nthat he was weak, that the\\nLord had departed from\\nhim, aud the Philistines\\nrunning in, made him a\\nprisoner, and took away\\niu triumph the famous\\nSamson who had been so\\nterrible to them.\\nVery cruelly they\\ntreated him. A few days\\nbefore, a thousand would\\nhave fled in terror if they\\nhad seen Samson near\\nthem. Now they put out\\nhis eyes, and fearing that\\nthe poor blind man, no\\nlonger strong, no longer\\nmighty by the favor of\\nthe Lord, might recover\\nhis power, loaded him with\\nfetters and chains of brass,\\nand set him to grind wheat cutting off samson s locks.\\nin the prison. They knew not that, by keeping him there, they were\\ngiving him time to regain his strength, for his hair grew again, and with\\nhis hair came back his old power.\\nIt was a great time of rejoicing for the Philistines. They made a\\ngreat sacrifice to their false god Dagon, for they said that he had given", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0193.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "166\\nTHE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\nSamson their enemy into their hands. They believed that the senseless\\nimage which they worshipped had power over man, and did not know that\\nit was the God of Israel who had punished the foolish conduct of Samson\\nin telling the secret of his strength. They feasted and made merry, and\\nat length the people called\\nout for Samson to be\\nbrought out of the prison\\nthat he might make sport\\nfor them. They wanted\\nto be amused by seeing\\nthe man who had been so\\nstrong, now blind and\\nfeeble, groping about in\\nthe dark and fearing to\\nfall. They put him be-\\ntween the pillars which\\nsupported the house, and\\na lad who held him guided\\nhis hands so that he could\\nlay hold of them.\\nIt was a large house\\nor temple where they were,\\nand was full of people,\\nand upon the roof were\\nabout three thousand men\\nand women. They stood\\nlaughing and shouting.\\nThey saw Samson s lips\\nmove, and made merry at\\nwhat they thought were his\\nattempts to speak, but he\\nwas praying to the Lord:\\nO Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee,\\nonly this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines\\nfor my two eyes.\\nHe held the pillars firmly, and saying, Let me die with the Phil-\\nistines, bent forward with all his might. The wonderful strength, such\\nSAMSON DESTROYING THE TEMPLE.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0194.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL.\\n167\\nas no man has had before or since, came back to him the great pillars\\nbent, the house fell in a heap of ruins, burying all that were in it and on\\nthe roof, and among them was Samson, the mighty man of Israel, the\\nblind man, who was more terrible in his death than in his life.\\nThe brothers and relations of Samson, when they heard of his death,\\nwent to fetch his body.\\nThe Philistines were, per-\\nhaps, so struck with terror\\nby the terrible vengeance\\nwhich Samson had taken,\\nand with the loss of so\\nmany of their own people,\\nthat they made no objec-\\ntion to the dead body of\\nSamson being taken away.\\nWhat a sight must the\\nrelatives of Samson have\\nseen when the}?- reached\\nthe place, and searched\\namong the ruins of the\\nfallen house for his body\\nThey took him back to\\nhis own place and buried\\nhim in the burying-place\\nof his father Manoah, for\\nthe Hebrew people always\\nwished to be buried in\\nfamily graves.\\nFor twenty years\\nSamson, the strong man,\\nwas judge of Israel. After\\nhis death, Micah, who was\\nan idolater, was a great benjamites taking wives from shiloh.\\nman in Israel, and there was much wickedness in the land, and fighting.\\nThe Benjamites were engaged in war and were reduced to a state\\nof desolation. So much so that they were unable to provide wives for\\nthemselves. Having gained a victory over their enemies, they came upon", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0195.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "168 RUTH AND NAOMI.\\nSliiloh when the daughters of Shiloh were dancing, took them, Dy surprise,\\nand carried away four hundred. Then they departed to their own families,\\nand thus disobeyed the Lord by mingling with the surrounding nations.\\nRUTH AND NAOMI.\\nIN the days when the judges ruled in Israel, there came a great famine\\nin the land. And a man named Elimelech left Bethlehem-Judah and\\nwent to live in the country of Moab. And he took his wife Naomi\\nand his two sons with him. Blimelech died soon after he came to the\\nland of Moab, and Naomi was left a widow. Her two sons, Mahlon and\\nChilion, married Moabitish women the name of one was Orpah, and the\\nname of the other Ruth. In less than ten years the two sons died, and\\nNaomi made up her mind to leave the land of Moab and return to Canaan,\\nfor she had heard there was plenty of food there.\\nWhen she set out to return to the land of Judah, to whose tribe\\nshe belonged, her two daughters-in-law went with her, for they were very\\nfond of her. But Naomi begged them to return to their own mothers, and\\nsaid, May the Lord repay you for your kindness to me and to my dead\\nsons. And with many kind wishes she kissed them, and they embraced\\neach other.\\nOrpah and Ruth were still loath to leave Naomi, and clung to her\\nmost affectionately. She urged them to return to their relatives and friends,\\nfor if they went with her they would have to endure great poverty and\\nhardship. Orpah decided at last that she would return, and parted affec-\\ntionately from her mother-in-law. Naomi begged Ruth to follow her sister-\\nin-law. But Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to cease following\\nthee: for whither thou goest I will go; and where thou lodgest I will\\nlodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where\\nthou diest I will die, and there, will I be buried. The Lord do so to me\\nand more also (that is, make my afflictions even greater than yours) if\\naught but death part thee and me.\\nWhen Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she\\nsaid no more, and the two walked on until they came to Bethlehem, where\\nNaomi had formerly lived. As soon as they entered the place all her old\\nfriends gathered about her and said, Is this Naomi? She said to them,\\nCall me not Naomi (which means pleasant), but call me Mara (which", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0196.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "RUTH AND NAOMI.\\n169\\nmeans bitter), for the Lord hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out\\nfull, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty. When she went\\naway she had a husband and children but now she returned alone.\\nNaomi and Ruth returned to Bethlehem in the beginning of the\\nbarley harvest. And Ruth\\nbegged that she might\\ngo and glean in the field,\\nfor she looked forward to\\na life of hard work and\\nmean fare. Naomi said,\\nGo, my daughter. And\\nRuth followed after the\\nreapers and picked up the\\ngrain they left behind for\\nthe poor to gather.\\nNow it happened\\nthat the field where Ruth\\ngleaned belonged to a rich\\nman named Boaz, who\\nwas related to Elimelech.\\nWhen Boaz came where\\nhis reapers were he said\\nto them, The Lord be\\nwith 3 ou. They answered\\nhim, The Lord bless thee.\\nAnd when Boaz saw Ruth\\nhe asked who she was.\\nAnd the chief servant\\nwho was set over the\\nreapers told him that she\\nwas the young woman\\nwho came from Moab with naomi returning to bethlEhem.\\nNaomi. She begged that she might glean after the reapers, he said, and we\\nallowed her to do so, and she hath kept on gleaning from the morning until now.\\nThen Boaz showed kindness to Ruth, and told her to go to no\\nother field, but to glean in his, for he had told his young men to do her\\nno harm. And when she was thirsty she was to go to the vessels the", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0197.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "170\\nRUTH AND NAOMI.\\nyoung men had filled, and drink. Then she fell on her face and bowed\\nherself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in\\nthine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?\\nAnd Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been showed\\nme, all that thou hast\\ndone unto thy mother-in-\\nlaw since the death of\\nthine husband: and how\\nthou hast left thy father\\nand thy mother, and the\\nland of thy nativity, and\\nart come unto a people\\nwhich thou knewest not\\nheretofore. The Lord\\nrecompense thy work,\\nand a full reward be\\ngiven thee of the Lord\\nGod of Israel, under\\nwhose wings thou art\\ncome to trust.\\nAnd Boaz told her\\nto eat with the reapers.\\nSo she ate with the reapers\\nof bread dipped in vine-\\ngar, and Boaz handed her\\nthe parched corn, and\\nshe ate as much as\\nshe desired. Boaz com-\\nmanded his young men,\\nsaying, Let her glean\\neven among the sheaves,\\nruth gleaning in the field of boaz. an d reproach her not;\\nand let fall some handfuls of grain on purpose for her.\\nSo she gleaned in the field unto even, and beat out the barley she\\nhad gathered. And when Naomi saw what she had brought, she blessed\\nRuth, and asked her where she had gleaned, and who had been so kind\\nto her. Ruth said the man s name was Boaz. And Ruth told Naomi that", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0198.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "RUTH AND NAOMI.\\n171\\nBoaz had asked her to come back and glean in his field as long as the\\nbarley and wheat harvest lasted and she did as he told her.\\nThen Naomi said to Ruth, Boaz winnoweth barley to-night in the\\nthreshing-floor. The threshing-floor was a large circle of level ground,\\nprepared for use by beat-\\ning the earth until it was\\nhard as a floor. The\\nsheaves were brought in\\nfrom the field and spread\\nout upon this floor; and\\nthe grain was trodden out\\nby oxen, cows, and young\\ncattle. Then it was tossed\\nup in the air with pitch-\\nforks, and the wind blew\\naway the broken straw\\nand chaff, and the barley\\nor wheat fell to the\\nground. Naomi had heard\\nthat Boaz was to thresh\\nhis barley that night, and\\nshe told Ruth to wash\\nand anoint herself, and\\nput her raiment on, and\\ngo down to the threshing-\\nfloor, and do as she had\\ntold her. And Ruth did\\nas her mother-in-law said.\\nAfter the work\\nwas done, a feast was\\nspread, and when Boaz\\nhad eaten and drunk boaz buying the parcel of land.\\nenough he lay down to sleep with a thankful heart. When he was alone\\nRuth drew near him, saying, Thou art our near kinsman. And she asked\\nhim to be kind to her. Boaz said, May the Lord bless thee, my daughter.\\nAnd he told her to fear not, for all the people of Bethlehem knew that she\\nwas a good woman. He said to her, Bring here thy veil and hold it out", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0199.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "172 SAMUEL AND ELL\\nAnd he poured into it six measures of barley, and. she took it home with\\nher. And when she showed it to Naomi, and told her all that had hap-\\npened, Naomi told her to wait patiently and see what else Boaz would do.\\nAfter Ruth had left him, Boaz went up to the gate and sat down\\nthere. The gate was a place where the people met to learn the news of\\nthe day, and to talk with each other. The rulers came there to hold their\\ncourt, to try those who had broken the laws, and to decide in what way\\nthey were to be punished. Goods were also bought and sold there, making\\nit a kind of market-place and there the priests spoke to the people and\\nthe prophets warned them.\\nAnd he took ten men of the elders, or chief men of the city, and\\nsaid to them, Sit ye down here. And they sat down. And he spoke\\nto them and to all the people, and told them that he was going to marry\\nRuth, the daughter-in-law of Naomi. And he said, You are witnesses.\\nThey had heard him tell it, and could tell it to others. And the people\\nand the elders said, We are witnesses and they prayed that the Lord\\nwould bless Ruth, and make Boaz still more prosperous and famous in\\nBethlehem.\\nSo Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife. And Naomi was glad,\\nfor she loved Ruth as if she had been her own daughter. And God gave\\nBoaz and Ruth a son, and Naomi took the child and laid it on her breast,\\nand nursed it for them. And they named the child Obed.\\nSAMUEL AND ELI.\\nTHERE was a man named Elkanah, who lived at Mount Ephraim.\\nHe worshipped the true God, and every year went with his family\\nto sacrifice to the Lord at Shiloh. Elkanah had a wife named\\nHannah, and she loved God too. Was Hannah happy One thing made\\nher sorry she had no child, and she wished very much to have a son.\\nOne year, when Elkanah and his family went to Shiloh, Hannah\\nfelt very sad, and she determined to tell her sorrow to God. So when the\\nsacrifice was ended at Shiloh, Hannah went and prayed to the Lord. She\\ncried very much when she prayed, and vowed a vow, and said, If thou,\\nLord, wilt give me a son, I will bring him up for thy service. He shall\\nbe a Nazarite to thee all his life. Hannah was not alone when she\\nprayed the old priest was sitting by his name was Eli. Eli looked at", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0200.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL AND ELI.\\n173\\nHannah while she was praying, and he saw her lips moving, but he could\\nnot hear what she said, and he spoke unkindly to her, and asked her what\\nshe was doing. Hannah told the priest that she was unhappy, and that\\nshe was telling God all her sorrows, and asking him to comfort her. Eli\\nwas very glad to find that\\nHannah prayed with her\\nheart, and not with her\\nlips alone; and he blessed\\nher, and asked God to hear\\nher prayer. Then Han-\\nnah thanked Eli, and wiped\\naway her tears, and went\\nhome with her husband.\\nHannah was now\\nu no more sad. She had\\ntold God her sorrow, and\\nasked him to give her a\\nchild and she waited for\\nhim to do as he pleased.\\nShe knew that what God\\ndoes is right and best;\\nand she trusted all to\\nhim, and was happy.\\nDid God hear Han-\\nnah s prayer Yes and\\nsoon after he gave her\\na little son. She named\\nhim Samuel. And now\\nHannah remembered her\\nvow to give her child to\\nGod. When he was old\\nenough to go away from HANNAH bringing SAMUEE to eel\\nher she carried him to Shiloh, to the Lord s house there. Then Hannah\\nwent to Eli and gave the little boy to him, and said, I am the woman\\nwho prayed here some time ago. I asked God then to give me a son, and\\nhe has heard my prayer. Here is my child I have lent him to the Lord\\nus long as he lives he shall be lent unto the Lord. It was a happy day", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0201.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "174 SAMUEL AND ELI.\\nat Shiloh when Samuel was brought there. Blkanah rejoiced and Hannah\\nand Eli too, and they all worshipped God and Hannah sang a beautiful\\nsong of praise.\\nHannah left her little boy at Shiloh, and went home to Ramah\\nwith her husband. Was she so 1 ry to leave Samuel No, because she\\nknew that God would bless her child, and that Eli would teach him what\\nwas right. Little Samuel w?.s very obedient, and gentle, and kind, and\\naffectionate to old Eli. Every year his mother came to Shiloh to sacrifice,\\nand then she saw her litfe boy. She made him a little coat, and brought\\nit to him when she cam to Shiloh. Eli and Hannah taught Samuel what\\nwas right, and they played God to bless him, and God heard their prayer.\\nParents and teacher cannot give children new hearts but God promises\\nto hear the prayers they offer for them in faith.\\nSamuel grew and God loved him, and all his friends loved him too.\\nEli had two sons they were not little boys, like Samuel, but grown up\\nand they were priests in the house of the Lord at Shiloh. God s priests\\nought to be very good and holy men but Hophni and Phinehas, Eli s\\nsons, were very wicked men they did not love nor obey God. Their father\\nEli knew that they were wicked, and he called them, and said, My sons,\\nI hear no good report of you. You sin against the Lord, and teach his\\npeople to do wrong. Why will you do such things\\nBut Hophni and Phinehas would not attend to their father; but\\nbecame more and more wicked. Eli was very unhappy when he saw his\\nsons so self-willed and disobedient. But was he right to let his wicked\\nsons stay and be priests at Shiloh No, Eli did very wrong he ought to\\nhave punished them and sent them away, and not let them be priests but\\nEli foolishly indulged his children, and did not like to punish them.\\nThen God said he would punish Eli, and slay Hophni and Phinehas\\nin one day. Eli was a good man, but God punished him because he let\\nhis sons go on in wickedness, and honored them more than he honored God.\\nSamuel was still living with Eli and he was kind and obedient,\\nwhen Eli s own sons were rebellious and self-willed. Samuel did not know\\nmuch about God, but he wished to know more, and he was glad and\\nattentive w T hen Eli told him about holy things.\\nOne night, when Samuel was in bed, he heard a voice calling,\\nSamuel, Samuel. It was God who called; but Samuel did not know\\nthis, because God had never called him before. So Samuel arose directly,", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0202.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL AND ELL 175\\nand ran to Eli, and said, Here I am, for thou calledst me. But Eli\\nanswered, No, my son, I called not; lie down again. Then Samuel\\nwent again and lay down but soon the voice called the second time,\\nSamuel. Samuel still thought it was Eli s voice, and he went again to\\nthe old priest, and said, Here I am.\\nBut Eli said, My dear child, I did not call go and lie down\\nagain. Samuel obeyed he wondered who had called him but he did not\\nask questions he did what Eli told him, and lay down quietly in his bed,\\nDid God call again Yes the third time, he said, Samuel, Samuel.\\nWas not Samuel tired of running to Eli? No, he went again to him\\ndirectly; he was not impatient because he was called so often.\\nWhen Eli saw Samuel running to him again, he began to think it\\nwas God who had called the child. So he said, Go, and lie down and,\\nif he call again, thou shalt say, Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth.\\nSo Samuel went back, and lay down wondering why the holy God should\\nspeak to him, a poor sinful boy. Did the voice call again Yes, the Lord\\ncalled the fourth time, Samuel, Samuel. Then the boy arose, and looked^\\nup humbly to Heaven, and said, Speak, for thy servant heareth.\\nIt is very pleasant when children early learn to serve and love Godj\\nlike Samuel. God calls children now. How? Does he speak to them\\nwith a loud voice, and call them by their names No they cannot hear-\\nhis voice but he speaks to them in his word, in the Bible. What does\\nhe say? He says, My son, give me thine heart. I love them that\\nlove me, and they that seek me early shall find me. Seek ye my face.\\nDo you wish to have God for your friend and Saviour Then you must 1\\nlike Samuel, attend to him, and obey him, and say, Thy face, Lord,\\nwill I seek.\\nSamuel grew, and every day he learnt more and more about God,\\nHe was God s child, and God kept him, and made him wise in holy\\nthings. It is very pleasant when children grow older, and better too but\\nsome grow worse, and not better. Eli s sons grew worse, more and more\\nwicked every day. God did not bless Israel now; they were wicked, ancf\\nthe priests were wicked, and God was going to punish them all.\\nThe Philistines came to fight against Israel, and there was a great\\nbattle. Who conquered? Not the Israelites, because God did not fight for\\nthem, and without him they had no power to conquer their enemies. The\\nPhilistines gained the victory; and four thousand of the Israelites were", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0203.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "176\\nSAMUEL AND ELI.\\nkilled. Then the people of Israel said, Why does God let the Philistines\\nconquer us We will bring the ark from Shiloh, and take it to the camp\\nperhaps the ark will save us from our enemies.\\nSo they sent to Shiloh, and took away the ark, and brought it to\\nthe camp, and Hophni\\nand Phinehas, Eli s two\\nsons, came with it. The\\narmy of the Israelites\\nshouted very loud when\\nthey saw the ark, for they\\nthought they were now\\nsure of the victory but\\nGod could not bless wicked\\npriests and disobedient\\npeople; he turned away,\\nand would not help them.\\nWhen the Philis-\\ntines saw the ark, they\\nwere frightened for they\\nthought it was the Israel-\\nites god, an idol-god, like\\nDagon, or Baal, and they\\ntold their soldiers to be\\nvery brave, and to fight\\nagainst them with all\\ntheir strength. Then the\\nbattle began and the\\nIsraelites were beaten,\\nand ran to their tents\\nand thirty thousand were\\nkilled. W here were Hoph-\\nTHE PHILISTINES TAKING AWAY THE ARK. n an d Phinehas Their\\ndead bodies were found on the field their souls were gone to appear before\\nGod, and to be judged for all their sins And the holy ark was gone\\nfrom Israel too the Philistines took it away, and carried it to their own\\ncountry God showed his sinful people that he was not with them now.\\nEli did not see the battle he was too old to go so far but he felt", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0204.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL AND ELI.\\n17:\\nvery unhapp} 7 because he knew how angry God was, and he thought\\nmuch about his wicked sons. He went to the gate of the city, and sat\\ndown there. All the people of Shiloh were unhappy too, and they waited\\ntrembling till the news came about the battle. At last, a man came run-\\nning very fast from the\\narmy and when the peo-\\nple looked at him, they\\nsaw that his clothes were\\nrent, and dust was upon\\nhis head, and they knew\\nthat he brought very\\nsad news.\\nWhen the man\\ntold them that the battle\\nwas lost, all the people\\ncried out the cry was\\nvery loud, and very bitter\\nand Eli heard it. He\\ncould not see, for his eyes\\nwere dim with old age, he-.\\nwas ninet}r-eight years\\nold, but he heard the\\nnoise, and he called the\\nmessenger, and asked,\\nWhat is the noise I\\nhear Why do the peo-\\nple cry? The messen-\\nger said, I have just run\\nfrom the army, Then\\nEli trembled very much,\\nand asked, What is done\\nthere tell me. The the death of ELI.\\nman said, The Israelites are conquered, Hophni and Phinehas are slain,\\nand the ark of God is taken away.\\nEli heard it all but when the messenger said that the ark was\\ngone, he could bear no more he did not look up, nor speak again he fell\\nback off his seat, and his neck broke, and he died. He could not bear so\\n12", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0205.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "178\\nSAMUEL AND EU.\\nmuch sorrow. He had lost all his comforts God s anger was upon the\\ncountry and the ark and the blessing of God were taken away.\\nThe Philistines took away the ark from Ebenezer, where the battle\\nwas fought, and carried it to Ashdod, and put it in the temple of their\\nidol Dagon. The Philis-\\ntines thought that the ark\\nwas an idol like Dagon\\nbut God soon showed them\\nthat it was very different.\\nWhen the Philis-\\ntines came into the temple\\non the morrow morning,\\nthey saw Dagon fallen\\ndown before the ark and\\nthey took him, and put\\nhim up again. But the\\nnext day, they found\\nDagon fallen down again,\\nand his hands and his\\nhead broken to pieces.\\nWho had done this God\\ndid it to show the Philis-\\ntines how powerful he\\nwas, and that their idol\\ngod could not stand before\\nhis holy ark. God pun-\\nished the people too of\\nAshdod with a dreadful\\nplague and they were\\nvery much frightened,\\nand said, the ark should\\ndestruction OF THE idoe OF DAGON. no t stay with them any\\nlonger, because it hurt them and was opposed to their god Dagon.\\nMany people say in their hearts, We do not want God we do not like\\nto pray, and to think of him, and to serve him we like our pleasures best, we\\nlike the world best. These people are like the Philistines, who sent away the\\nholy ark, because they liked to serve Dagon better than the true God.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0206.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL AND ELL 179\\nWhere did the ark go? The Philistines sent it to Gath; but there\\nGod punished the people with the plague, and then they sent the ark to\\nEkron. When the people of Ekron saw it corning, they were frightened,\\nand cried, Take the ark awa}^ we fear a plague will come with it send\\nit back to its own country. The ark was seven months in the Philistines\\ncountry-, and rnany people died of the plague which God sent.\\nAt last, the Philistines said, they would send the ark home for\\nthe} saw that the God of Israel was stronger than they, and they could\\nnot resist his power. So they made a new cart, and put the ark into it\\ntwo kine drew the cart. They took the right road to go to the land of\\nIsrael they did not stand still they went straight on, without turning to\\nright or left.\\nThe kine drew the ark in the cart to Bethshemesh. The people\\nthere were very busy reaping for it was harvest time. They heard some-\\nthing coming, and looked up, to see what it was. What did they see?\\nThe cart drawn by the kine, without a driver, coming to them along the\\nroad and when they looked into the cart, there they saw the holy ark of\\nGod, which they had lost so long. Then the people in Bethshemesh\\nrejoiced very much.\\nThe cart came close to them, and the kine stood still and the\\nLevites took out the ark, and put it upon a large stone. Then they cut\\nup the cart for wood, and offered the kine in joyful sacrifice to God who\\nhad sent them his holy ark again. The lords of the Philistines, who\\nfollowed the cart, saw all this, and wondered, and returned to their own\\ncountry.\\nBut a sad thing happened to Bethshemesh that day. The people\\nwere very pleased to have the ark again but some of them forgot what a\\nholy thing it was, and they went to it, and looked into it, very irrever-\\nently, without remembering that God had commanded them to honor it,\\nand only allowed the Levites to touch it. The men of Bethshemesh made\\nGod angry and he smote them and fifty thousand and seventy people died.\\nThe people were very much frightened when they saw so many of\\ntheir friends dead, and said, Who can stand before this holy Lord God?\\nThen they sent to Kirjath-jearim, and asked the people there to come and\\ntake the ark away. The men of Kirjath-jearim were glad to have it; and\\nthey brought it to the house of a man named Abinadab, and he conse-\\ncrated his son to keep it and it stayed there many years.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0207.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "180 SAMUEL AND SAUL.\\nThe Israelites now began to be sorry for their sins, and they cried\\nto the Lord. God had punished them very much, and taken away the ark\\nfrom them but now they wanted to have God s blessing again, because\\nthey felt they could not be happy without it.\\nNone can be happy without God s love and blessing. We have not\\nthe ark now to be with us, as it used to be with Israel, and we do not\\nwant it. We have Jesus Christ, and he is always with us, to bless us, if\\nwe are his people.\\nWhen the Israelites began to cry about their sins, they had a kind\\nfriend to teach them what to do. Who was that friend Samuel he was\\nnow a man, and God s love and blessing were still upon him. God taught\\nhim to speak to his people Israel. Samuel said, Do you wish to serve\\nGod in truth, and to have his blessing again If you do, you must put\\naway your idols, and turn to God, and serve him alone. Then the\\nIsraelites attended to Samuel, and put away their idols, and began to serve\\nthe Lord. Samuel called them to Mizpeh, and there he prayed for them\\nand they prayed too, and asked for forgiveness, and cried, We have\\nsinned against the Lord.\\nSAMUEL AND SAUL.\\nYBT twenty years longer the Israelites groaned under the yoke of\\nthe Philistines; and all lamented after the Lord, and entreated\\nhis return. And Samuel spake to all the house of Israel saying,\\nIf ye do return to the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the\\nstrange gods and Ashtaroth from among you and prepare your hearts\\nunto the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the\\nhands of the Philistines. Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim\\nand Ashtaroth and served the Lord only. And Samuel judged the children\\nof Isr. el in Mizpeh.\\nAnd when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were\\ngathered together at Mizpeh, they went up against them. And the children\\nof Israel were afraid, and said to Samuel Cease not to cry to the Lord\\nfor us, that he will save us out of the hands of the Philistines. And\\nSamuel took a sucking lamb and offered it wholly as a burnt-offering to\\nthe Lord and he cried to the Lord for Israel and the Lord heard him.\\nAnd as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the Philistines drew", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0208.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL AND SAUL. 181\\nnear to battle against Israel, but the Lord thundered with a great thunder\\nthat day upon the Philistines and discomfited them, and they were smitten\\nbefore Israel.\\nAnd the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh and pursued the Philis-\\ntines and smote them until they came under Beth-car. Then Samuel took\\na stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen and called the name of it\\nEbenezer, sa}dng, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. Moreover Samuel\\ninstituted the schools of the Prophets. Hence he is mentioned in Holy\\nScripture with Moses in importance.\\nWhen Samuel was old he made his sons judges over Israel in\\nBeer-sheba. But his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after\\nlucre and took bribes and perverted judgment. Then all the elders of\\nIsrael gathered themselves together and came to Samuel at Ramah; and\\nsaid to him: Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways;\\nnow make us a king to judge us like all the nations, and go out before\\nus and fight our battles. But their words displeased Samuel, and he prayed\\nto the Lord.\\nAnd the Lord said to him: Hearken to their voice and make them\\na king. And Samuel called the people together at Mizpeh, and proceeded\\nto elect their future ruler by lot. And the let fell first upon the tribe of\\nBenjamin, and then upon the family of Matri, next upon the household of\\nKish, and lastly upon his. son Saul and when they sought him he could\\nnot be found, for he had hid himself behind the carts and baggage; and\\nwhen he was found and stood among the people, he was higher than any\\nof the people from his shoulders and upward. And Samuel said to all the\\npeople See ye him, whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like\\nhim among all the people And all the people shouted and said Long\\nlive the king. Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom,\\nand wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord. Then he anointed Saul.\\nThen Nahash, the Ammonite, came up and encamped against Jabesh-\\nGilead and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant with\\nus, and we will serve thee. And he answered them: On this condition\\nwill I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right\\nejres and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.\\nBut the elders of Jabesh sent messengers to Gibeah of Saul and told\\nthe tidings in the ears of the people and all the people lifted up their\\nvoices and wept. And behold, Saul came after the oxen out of the field;", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0209.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "182\\nSAMUEL AND SAUL.\\nand when he saw the people weeping and heard those tidings, the Spirit\\nof the Lord came upon him and his anger was kindled greatly. And he\\ntook the 3 T oke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces and sent them throughout\\nall the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying: Whosoever\\ncometh not forth after\\nSaul and Samuel, so shall\\nit be done to his oxen.\\nAnd the fear of the Lord\\nfell gj f he people, and they\\ncame out to the number of\\nthree hundred thousand.\\nAnd Saul put the\\npeople in three com-\\npanies and they came in\\nthe midst of the host in\\nthe morning-watch and\\nslew the Ammonites until\\nthe heat of the day, and\\nscattered them so that not\\ntwo of them were left\\ntogether. Pleased with\\nSaul s victory and bravery\\nall the people went to\\nGil gal, and there they\\nmade Saul king and sacri-\\nficed sacrifices of peace-\\nofferings before the Lord\\nand there Samuel and\\nall the men of Israel\\nrejoiced greatly.\\nAnd Samuel said\\nSaul anointed by SAMUEL. to all Israel: Behold I\\nhave hearkened to your voice and have made a king over you. And now,\\nbehold, the king walketh before you, and I am old and gray-headed. I have\\nwalked before you from my childhood to this day. Behold here I am\\nwitness against me before the Lord, and before his Anointed: whose ox\\nhave I taken, or whose ass have I taken, or whom have I defrauded whom", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0210.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL AND SAUL.\\n183\\nhave T oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind\\nmine eyes therewith and I will restore it you.\\nAnd they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither\\nhast thou taken aught of any man s hand. And he said to them The\\nLord is witness against _\\nyou and his Anointed is\\nwitness this day that ye\\nhave not found aught in\\nmy hands. And they\\nanswered: He is witness.\\nThen Samuel went on\\nsaying Behold, the Lord\\nhath set a king over you.\\nIf ye will fear the Lord\\nand serve him and obey\\nhis voice and not rebel\\nagainst his command-\\nment, then shall both ye\\nand your king be safe\\nand happy under his care.\\nBut if ye will not obey\\nthe voice of the Lord, but\\nrebel against the com-\\nmandment of the Lord,\\nthen shall the hand of the\\nLord be against you, as it\\nwas against your fathers.\\nFear therefore the Lord\\nand serve him in truth\\nwith all your heart.\\nAfter this the Phil-\\nistines again invaded Is- Jonathan smiting the Philistines.\\nrael, and they made servants of the people, neither would they let the men of\\nIsrael have swords or spears, for fear they might rise up and fight against\\nthem. Nevertheless Jonathan and his band smote the Philistines that were in\\nGeba. And the Philistines heard of it and gathered themselves together to\\nfight against Israel. And they came up and encamped in Michuash. Then", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0211.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "18-4 SAMUEL AND SAUL.\\nSaul called the Israelites together to Gilgal. But the people were sore afraid\\nand hid themselves in caves and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high\\nplaces, and in pits, so that only six hundred men followed Saul, trembling.\\nNow there was a deep ravine between the hostile camps with steep\\ncliffs on either side. And Jonathan said to the young man who carried\\nhis armour Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised,\\nand discover ourselves to them it may be that the Lord will work for us.\\nAt the first assault twenty men were slain. And there was trembling\\nin the host, in the field and among all the people, and the earth quaked\\nit was a very great trembling of God. Now when Saul had heard by the\\nwatchmen of the commotion in the camp of the Philistines, and that they\\nwere beating down one another, he and all the people that were with him\\ncame to the battle. Likewise, they that had hid themselves, when the}^\\nheard that the Philistines fled, pursued after them till night-fall.\\nThen the people flew upon the spoil and took sheep and oxen and\\ncalves and slew them on the ground, and the people did eat them with the\\nblood, so hungry were they. For before the battle, Saul had adjured the\\npeople, saying: Cursed is the man that eats any food till evening, that I\\nmay be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.\\nAnd they came to a wood where honey was dropping from the bee-nests\\nin the trees. But no man touched it for fear of the oath. Only Jonathan,\\nwho had not heard his father charging the people with an oath, put forth\\nthe end of his spear, and dipped it in a honey-comb, and put his hand to\\nhis mouth, and his eyes were enlightened.\\nAnd when om of the people told him of the oath of his father, he\\nsaid: My father hath troubled the land; see, I pray you, how mine eyes\\nhave been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey; how much\\nmore, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies\\nwhich they found, for had there not been now a much greater slaughter\\nof the enemy. But when Saul found it out by the lot, he said to Jonathan:\\nTell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said: I did\\nbut taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hands,\\nand lo, I must die. And Saul answered God do so to me and more also\\n(if I break my vow), thou shalt surely die, Jonathan. But the people said\\nto Saul Shall Jonathan die, who has wrought this great salvation in\\nIsrael God forbid as the Lord lives, there shall not one hair of his\\nhead fall to the ground. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0212.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL AND SAUL.\\n185\\nSo Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his\\nenemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Amnion,\\nand against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philis-\\ntines, and whithersoever he turned himself, he humbled them.\\nNow the Amalekites alone had not been smitten. Therefore Samuel\\nsaid to Saul The Lord\\nsent me to anoint thee to\\nbe king over his people:\\nnow hearken thou unto\\nthe voice of the Lord.\\nThus says the Lord of\\nhosts: I remember that\\nwhich Amalek did to\\nIsrael, how he laid wait for\\nhim in the way, when\\nhe came up from Egypt.\\nNow go and smite Ama-\\nlek, and utterly destroy\\nall that they have and\\nspare them not. And Saul\\nsmote the Amalekites, but\\nspared Agag their king,\\nand the best of the sheep\\nand the oxen and all\\nthat was good.\\nThen came the\\nword of the Lord to Sam-\\nuel, saying It repenteth\\nme, that I have set up Saul\\nto be king, for he turned\\nback from following me,\\nand hath not performed\\nmy commandments. And the lot falls upon Jonathan.\\nit grieved Samuel and he cried to the Lord all night. And on the next day\\nalready Saul met him, and said to him Blessed be thou of the Lord I have\\nperformed the commandment of the Lord. But Samuel replied: What\\nmeaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0213.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "186\\nSAMUEL AND SAUL.\\noxen wnich I hear? And Saul said: The people have brought them from\\nthe Amalekites, for they spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to\\nsacrifice to the Lord, thy God, and the rest we have utterly destroyed.\\nThen Samuel said to Saul Stay, and I will tell thee what the\\nLord said to me this night.\\nAnd he said to him Say\\non. And Samuel said\\nWhen thou wast little in\\nthine own sight, wast thou\\nnot made head of the tribes\\nof Israel, and the Lord\\nanointed thee king over\\nIsrael And the Lord sent\\nthee on a journey, and\\nsaid Go, and utterly de-\\nstroy the sinners, the Ama-\\nlekites wherefore didst\\nthou not obey the voice\\nof the Lord, but didst seize\\nupon the spoil, and didst\\nevil in the sight of the\\nLord? Hath the Lord as\\ngreat delight in burnt-\\nofferings and sacrifices as\\nin obeying his voice Be-\\nhold, to obey is better than\\nsacrifice, and to hearken\\nthan the fat of rams. Then\\nSaul said I have sinned\\nyet honor me now, I pray\\nthee, before Israel, and turn\\nTHE death of agag. once mor e with me, that I\\nmay worship the Lord, thy God Samuel, overcome by this repeated entreaty\\nof the humbled king, joined him in the sacrifice. Then Agag, the king of\\nthe Amalekites, was, at his command, brought before the prophet. And he\\ncame fawningly and said Surely the bitterness of death is past. But Samuel\\nsaid As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0214.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID. 187\\nchildless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the\\nLord in Gilgal. Then he went to Ramah, and came no more to see Saul\\nuntil the day of his death nevertheless he mourned for the rejected king.\\nTHE STORY OF DAVID.\\nONE day, when Samuel was mourning for Saul, God spoke to him,\\nand said, Do not mourn any longer for Saul. I will not have\\nhim for king, because he has forsaken me. Take a horn of oil,\\nand go to the house of Jesse, in Bethlehem. I have chosen a king among\\nhis sons. Then Samuel obeyed God, and went to Bethlehem, and made\\na sacrifice there, as God told him, and he called Jesse and his sons to the\\nsacrifice. Jesse had eight sons. Seven of them were at home, but the\\n3^oungest was in the fields keeping sheep.\\nWhen Samuel saw Eliab, Jesse s eldest son, he was very much\\npleased with him and thought he must be the new king God had chosen.\\nBut God did not look at the face, he looked at the heart he wanted a\\nking who would love and serve him, not a king who was tall and hand-\\nsome. He said, I have not chosen this man. Samuel looked at the six\\nother sons also, but God had chosen none of them. Then Samuel said to\\nJesse, Where is thy youngest son? Call him, for we must have him here.\\nThen Jesse sent out to the field, and brought in his youngest son.\\nHis name was David. David was young he too was beautiful but God\\ndid not choose him for his beauty. David loved God, and he wished and\\nprayed to love him more. When David was alone in the fields keeping\\nhis sheep, he liked to think of God. And then, David used to pray, and\\nto play upon his harp, and sing beautiful hymns of praise to God. How\\npleasant it is when young people begin to love and serve the Lord early,\\nas David did When David came into his father s house, God said to\\nSamuel, Anoint him this is the king I have chosen. Then Samuel\\npoured oil upon David s head, and anointed him and all his brothers\\nlooked on.\\nThe Israelites old enemies, the Philistines, now came to fight against\\nthem again. They pitched their tents on a high mountain, and Saul and\\nhis army stood upon another mountain opposite, and there was a vallejr\\nbetween the two armies. The Philistines had with them a very bold com-\\nmander, a great giant, named Goliath. He was very tall, and covered with", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0215.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "188 THE STORY OF DAVID.\\nthick armor arid he had a great sword, and shield, and spear and he\\nstood, and cried to the army of Israel, Why do you come to fight against\\nme? If you can, choose a man, and let him come and fight me, and try\\nto kill me. The Israelites were much frightened when they heard the\\nproud Philistine speak thus, and Saul was frightened also.\\nThen David came to the king, spoke very boldly, for God made him\\nbold, and said, Do not fear this great Philistine I am ready to go and\\nfight him. But Saul said, Thou hast not power to conquer him; thou\\nart young, and he is very strong, and has been used to fighting all his\\nlife. David answered, I am a shepherd, and I keep my father s sheep\\nin Bethlehem. One day, a lion and a bear came to my flock, and took\\naway a lamb, and I ran, and killed the lion and the bear, and saved the\\nlamb, and took it out of the lion s mouth, and brought it back to the fold.\\nIt was God who gave me strength to kill those great animals, and I\\nknow he will give me power now to conquer this wicked Philistine. God\\nis with us, and he will deliver us from our enemies. Then Saul said,\\nGo, and the Lord be with thee. Saul gave David all his armor, a\\nhelmet, and a spear, and a sword. But David said, No, I do not want\\nthese I have not been used to them.\\nSo he took them all off, and chose five smooth stones, and put them\\ninto his shepherd s bag; and he took a sling, and a staff, and went to\\nmeet the giant. Then the Philistine came out, but when he saw David,\\nhe laughed at him, and said, Canst thou conquer me Come to me, and\\n1 will give thy flesh to the birds of the air, and the beasts of the field\\nBut David answered, Thou comest to me with a sword, and a spear, and\\na shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.\\nI know that thou art very strong, and that I am weak, and unable of\\nmyself to fight thee; but God is with me, and he is stronger than thou.\\nHe will give me power to conquer and kill thee for he can fight without\\nswords and spears, for the battle is the Lord s, and he will give you into\\nour hands.\\nThen David ran to meet his great enemy. He took a stone, and\\nput it into his sling, and slung it and the stone went into the forehead\\nof the giant, and he fell down on the ground. Then David ran to the\\nPhilistine, and stood upon him, and took the sword of the giant, and slew\\nhim, and cut off his head; for David had no sword of his own. Then all\\nthe Philistines, when they saw that their commander was dead, fled and", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0216.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID.\\n189\\nDavid, without armor\\nthe Israelites followed, and killed very many of them. The Israelites\\nreturned shouting for joy, and David took the giant s head, and brought\\nit to Jerusalem.\\nHow could young\\nPhilistine? It was not\\nDavid s strength, nor his\\nsling, nor his stone, that\\ngained the victory they\\nhad no power it was\\nDavid s God who con-\\nquered, and he alone.\\nDavid looked in faith to\\nGod for help, and he gave\\nhim the victory. We have\\nenemies to fight too not\\ngreat soldiers like Goliath,\\nbut enemies who fight\\nagainst our souls. We\\nmust fight in God s\\nstrength, not in our own.\\nWe must ask God to fight\\nfor us, and then we shall\\nbe enabled to conquer and\\ngain the victory.\\nSaul now began to\\nhate David. Why? Be-\\ncause he was jealous of\\nhim, for he thought the\\npeople loved David more\\nthan they loved himself.\\nAfter the battle and the\\nvictory, when Saul and all Goliath slain by david.\\nhis people were going home, tne women came out to meet them and they\\nsang, and played, and danced, and shouted for joy. They sang, Saul has\\nslain his thousands, but David his ten thousands. This made the king\\nvery angry. He thought they gave very little honor to him, and a great deal\\nof honor to David, and that they loved David best, and would make him king.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0217.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "190\\nTHE STORY OF DAVID\\nSo Saul grew very jealous, aud looked unkindly at David; though\\nDavid had done no wrong. Jealousy is a very great sin. Y/e ought to be\\nglad to see good people honored and loved. It is very wrong to want to\\nhave all the praise ourselves, and to feel angry when others are praised.\\nWe ought to ask God to\\ntake jealousy and selfish-\\nness out of our hearts.\\nThe next day the\\nevil spirit ccmie into Saul\\nagain; and David took his\\nharp and began to play,\\nand tried to quiet hiin.\\nBut David s harp did not\\ntake away Saul s passion\\nnow. Saul had a spear in\\nhis hand, and he tried to\\nthrow it at David while\\nhe played but David\\nturned away, and the spear\\npassed without hurting\\nhim. When Saul saw that\\nGod was David s friend,\\nhe was afraid he could\\nnot kill David, but he sent\\nhim away, because he did\\nnot like to see him. He\\nmade David captain over\\nthe soldiers and they\\nall loved him, and the\\npeople loved him and God\\nloved him too, and kept\\nSAUL attempting To kill david. him, wherever he went.\\nThere was a man who lived at Maon, named Nabal. He was very\\nrich, and had great possessions in Carmel sheep, and goats, and asses,\\nand camels. He lived near the place where David now was, and he was\\nshearing his sheep in Carmel. David knew that Nabal was very rich, and\\nlie sent messengers to him, to ask for food. David s servants spoke veiy", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0218.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID.\\n191\\nrespectfully to Nabal they did not rudely ask for what they wanted for\\nDavid taught them to honor and respect all men. But Nabal was a selfish\\nand cruel man. He did not care for other people he tried only to please\\nhimself. All his money and all his possessions he kept for his own use\\nhe never thought about\\nthe poor and hungr}^ who\\nhad no food and no home.\\nNabal was angry\\nwith David s servants\\ninstead of giving them any\\nthing he drove them away\\nin a passion, and sent them\\nback again to David.\\nWhen David heard of\\nNabal s unkindness and\\npassion, he was angry too.\\nWas David right to be\\nangry No he ought to\\nhave been patient and for-\\ngiving, as he was when\\nSaul was unkind to him.\\nSo David told his\\nmen to take their swords,\\nand he made all ready to\\ngo to Nabal to kill him,\\nbecause he had been un-\\nkind and selfish and cruel.\\nBut Nabal had a wife\\nnamed Abigail. She was\\nnot like her husband she\\nwas gentle, and kind, and\\nwilling to give away what Abigail bringing presents to david.\\nshe could. When Abigail heard about Nabal s cruelty she was very sorry.\\nShe knew that David was a good man, and that he was in great trouble,\\nand trying to hide from Saul and Abigail wished to be kind to him and\\nhis men. So she called her servants and told them to make ready some\\nsheep, and corn, and figs, and grapes, and to put them upon asses,", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0219.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "192 THE STORY OF DAVID.\\nand take them to David and she followed, but she did not tell Nabal\\nwhere she was going.\\nWhen Abigail met with David, she came down from the ass, and\\nfell on her face before him. Then she spoke very gently to David, and\\nasked him not to be angry, but to forgive her wicked husband. Abigail\\nloved God and she told David how wrong it is to be passionate and angry\\nbut she spoke very respectfully when she said this, and reminded David\\nthat God could preserve him, and punish his enemies and that, therefore,\\nhe must be patient and leave all to God.\\nWhen David heard Abigail talk so gently, he became gentle too.\\nHe felt he had done wrong, and he thanked God for sending Abigail .to\\nkeep him from shedding blood. So Abigail gave the present to David, and\\nhe thanked her, and she went home. And David and his men had food to\\neat now, without fighting and shedding blood. It was not right for\\nDavid to punish Nabal, but God punished him. God must punish our\\nenemies, not we.\\nWhen Abigail came home she found Nabal making a great feast\\nwith his friends. They were eating and drinking, and very merry. It\\nwas wicked merriment. They loved their own pleasure and ease but they\\ndid not think of their poor hungry neighbors they did not care for God,\\nnor holy things all their thoughts were about this world eating and\\ndrinking, and pleasing themselves.\\nAbigail did not stay with this wicked company she did not speak\\nto Nabal then, but next morning she told him about David, and all that\\nshe had done. Nabal felt frightened and unhappy at what his wife said.\\nHe knew he had done wrong; but Abigail s reproof did not make him\\nrepent and turn to God. He had no comfort now. His riches and his\\nworldly company could do him no good and God was not his friend. He\\nlived only ten days after.\\nWhere was Saul this long time? He was still at his house,\\nunhappy and discontented the evil spirit troubling him more and more.\\nThe Philistines now came to fight against Israel, and Saul gathered\\ntogether all his soldiers at Gilboa. But he felt much frightened when he\\nlooked upon the army of his enemies, for he knew that he had not God\\nto fight for him.\\nSaul went and asked God to help him but had no answer. Saul\\nhad forsaken God; now God forsook him. Saul had no answer, because", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0220.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID.\\nlie did uot pray humbly he was not truly sorry for his siu. He was\\nfrightened and miserable, but he was not penitent and humble. God\\npromises always to answer sincere prayers; but Saul s prayer was careless\\nand insincere and, therefore, God would not attend to it.\\nWhat could Saul do now? Where did he go for help? Did he\\npray again to God, and\\nask for a new heart, and\\na right spirit? No, Saul\\nwas soon tired of prayer,\\nfor he did not care for\\nGod s blessing and for-\\ngiveness. He called his\\nservants, and asked them\\nif they knew a witch who\\ncould tell him what he\\nwanted to know. The\\nwitches were wicked wo-\\nmen who pretended to\\nhave the power of raising\\ndead people, and of fore-\\ntelling future things. God\\nhad commanded them to\\nbe put to death. But Saul\\nwas now grown so foolish,\\nand so wicked, that he\\nwished to ask advice of a\\nwitch, and not of God, nor\\nof his holy prophets.\\nSaul s servants told\\nhim there was a witch\\nliving at Endor so he\\nchanged his dress, that\\npeople might not know SAUL and THE witch of endor.\\nhim, and went secretly, by night, to Endor. Saul came to the house where\\nthis wicked woman lived, and asked her to raise a dead man to life for\\nhim. The woman did not know Saul and she refused at first to do what\\nhe wished, for she was afraid of being put to death. But Saul told hei", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0221.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "194 THE STORY OF DAVID.\\nnot to fear; and promised she should not be punished. Then she said,\\nWhom shall I bring up? And Saul told her to bring up Samuel. The\\nfoolish woman had no power to raise Samuel.\\nBut God showed his power by causing a figure like Samuel to come\\nup, and speak to Saul. When the woman saw the figure coming up out\\nof the ground, she was very much frightened, and cried out for fear. Then\\nSaul looked too. What did he see He saw the figure of an old man\\nhe thought it was Samuel, and he bowed down to the ground. Then the\\nfigure asked, Why hast thou called me up? Saul said, I am sore\\ndistressed; the Philistines make war against me; God is gone from me;\\nand answers me no more, and I have called thee to tell me what I shall\\ndo. Then the figure said, Why dost thou ask of me, if the Lord is\\nthine enemy? He has departed from thee, and given the kingdom to David,\\nbecause thou obeyedst not his voice. The Philistines will fight against\\nIsrael and Israel will be conquered and to-morrow thou and thy sons\\nshall be with me.\\nWhat did Saul do? He fell down on the ground in fear and\\nhorror. He was very miserable he had now no hope to-morrow he must\\ndie his body must fall on the battle-field and where must his soul go\\nCould it go to Heaven No he was not ready for Heaven. Satan was\\nin his heart, not God s Holy Spirit.\\nThe woman understood now who Saul was and she and his ser-\\nvants tried to comfort him. She spoke kindly to him and made ready\\nsome meat and bread for him to eat. But could all this do Saul any good\\nnow No he was going to die, and God alone can comfort people in death.\\nBut Saul could not go to God for comfort. It was too late he had forsaken\\nGod, and God had cast him off for ever.\\nSaul arose from the ground, and ate what the woman made ready,\\nand then he and his servants went away. The next day, in battle, he died\\nby falling on his own sword.\\nWas David now king of all Israel? No; seven years he reigned\\nonly over Judah Saul had left a son, named Ish-bosheth and Abner, the\\ncaptain, took Ish-bosheth and made him king over Israel. There was a\\nlong war between the party of Ish-bosheth and the party of David. Abner\\nwas captain of Ish-bosheth s soldiers, and Joab was captian of David s soldiers.\\nDavid wanted peace in his kingdom but he knew that all his\\nenemies must first be conquered, because God had told him this, and", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0222.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID.\\n195\\npromised to fight for hiin, and give him the victory. David grew stronger\\nand stronger every day: and Ish-bosheth grew weaker and weaker. Abner\\nknew that David was God s chosen king and he sent to him, and prom-\\nised to help him to reign over the whole kingdom, Israel as well as Judah.\\nSo David and Abner\\nmade peace, and feasted\\ntogether at Hebron. But\\nJoab, David s captain,\\nhated Abner, and did not\\nlike David to make peace\\nwith him. Why Because\\nAbner had killed Asahel,\\nJoab s brother, in a quarrel,\\nsome time before; and Joab\\nhad not forgiven Abner.\\nSo when Abner went away,\\nJoab followed, and called\\nhim, and pretended to\\nspeak kindly to him but\\nJoab had a sword, and he\\ndrew it out, and thrust it\\ninto Abner s side. Abner\\nfell down dead directly\\nand the people came and\\ntold David.\\nDavid was angry\\nwith Joab. and sorry for\\nAbner. All the people\\nmourned; and when Abner\\nwas buried, David himself\\nfollowed the dead body to\\nthe grave. Did David abner slain by joab.\\npunish Joab for the murder No, he was afraid he thought he had not\\nenough power to do so but he never forgot Joab s wickedness he said,\\nGod would punish him, though he could not.\\nSoon after Abner s death, there was another sad murder in Israel.,\\nIsh-bosheth was killed in his bed, by two men who came into his house", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0223.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "196\\nTHE STORY OF DAVID.\\npretending to get corn. The wicked murderers cut off the head of Ish-\\nbosheth, and brought it to David, and said, See, here is the head of the\\nson of thine enemy Saul.\\nThe men thought this would please David but he commanded that\\nthe murderers should be\\nslain so David s servants\\nkilled the two wicked\\nmen, and hung them up\\nin Hebron but the head\\nof Ish-bosheth they buried\\nhonorably in Abner s\\ntomb. David was right to\\npunish the men who killed\\nIsh-bosheth, because God\\nhas commanded that mur-\\nderers shall be put to\\ndeath.\\nWho reigned over\\nIsrael after Ish-bosheth\\nwas dead? David. The\\ntribes of Israel all came\\nto him, and asked him\\nto be their king. David\\nnow ruled over a large\\ncountry, and had great\\npossessions. Some years\\nbefore, he was a poor\\nshepherd boy now he\\nwas a great king.\\nGod loved David,\\nand he gave him honor;\\nISH-BOSHETH SLAIN BY HIS SERVANTS. but God does not always\\nhonor those he loves in this world. Sometimes his people are poor, and\\nhave no possessions perhaps they have not even food and clothing. He\\nsees it best not to give riches and honors to all his people here: and he\\nknows that riches and honors cannot make them happy. But God has\\nriches to give all his people in heaven.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0224.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID. 197\\nWhat was the first thing King David did? His enemies, the Jeb-\\nusites, had possession of Jerusalem, and he went there and smote them,\\nand took the city. David then began to feel safe, and his power grew\\ngreater and greater every day for God blessed David in all things, and\\ngave him victory, and strength, and riches. It is God who gives us all\\nthe good things we have. Let us thank him for his kindness, and ask him\\nto give us his blessing too, because that alone can make us truly happy.\\nThe Philistines now came again to fight against David. He remem-\\nbered that God had promised to protect him so before he began to fight\\nagainst the Philistines, he asked God, Shall I go up against the Philistines\\nWilt thou deliver them into my hand And God said, Go up, I will\\ndeliver them into thy hand. Then David went, and did as God commanded\\nhim and soon he gained the victory over his enemies.\\nWhen David was safe and happy, did he forget God, and begin to love\\nworldly things better than holy things No when all his enemies were\\nconquered, and his kingdom safe, the first thing he remembered was God s\\nholy ark. The ark was still at Kirjath-Jearim, in the house of Abinadab,\\nwho had kept it many years but David wanted to have it now in his own\\ncity of Jerusalem; so he went with many of his people to Kirjath-Jearim\\nto bring it back. They came to Abinadab s house, and took out the ark, and\\nput it in a new cart and Uzzah and Ahio, Abinadab s sons, drove the cart.\\nThen David and all the people were very glad; and they went with\\nthe ark, playing and singing for joy. After a little time, they came to a\\nrough place, and the oxen that drew the cart stumbled, and shook the ark.\\nWhen Uzzah saw the ark shaken, he was afraid it might fall, and he put\\nout his hand, and took hold of it. But Uzzah forgot how very holy the\\nark was he did not honor it as he ought, and God punished him, and\\nstruck him dead directly. Many years before, God had punished the men\\nof Bethshemesh, because they looked into the ark and so now God pun-\\nished Uzzah. He did not need Uzzah so irreverently to take hold of the\\nholy ark he himself could keep it safely.\\nUzzah s death was a sad end to David s happiness. All the people\\nwere frightened, and David said, he would not have the ark with him now.\\nWas he right not to want now to have the ark No he was wrong to\\nbe so much afraid God did not wish to frighten and trouble his people\\nhe only wished to teach them to honor and reverence his holy things.\\nBut there was a good man named Obed-edom, who was not afraid", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0225.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "198\\nTHE STORY OF DAVID.\\nto have the ark so it was carried to his house. Obed-etfom was very\\nhappy when he had the ark, because God s blessing came with it. All\\nwas right at Obed-edom s house when the ark was there.\\nWhen David heard that God had blessed Obed-edom, he was no\\nlonger afraid of the ark\\nso he went to the house\\nwhere it was, and took\\nit away; but the priests\\ncarried it upon their\\nshoulders. David had\\nlearned to be more rever-\\nent, and to teach his peo-\\nple to be reverent too.\\nWhen the ark had\\ngone a very little way,\\nDavid offered sacrifices\\nto God. He asked for\\nGod s blessing first, and\\nthen he went on safely,\\nknowing that God was\\nwith him. David and all\\nthe people brought the\\nark home and the king\\nwas so happy that he\\ndanced for joy.\\nThe ark was put\\nin a tabernacle which\\nDavid made for it; and\\nthen he offered sacrifices\\nagain, and blessed the\\npeople, and gave them\\nbread, and wine, and meat,\\nand sent them away. It was a happy, holy day at Jerusalem. Why\\nwere they all so joyful? Because they had the ark with them again.\\nThe feasting, and singing, and shouting, were all holy; the people did\\neverything that day in the fear and honor of God; and then they had\\nhis blessing, and that made them happy.\\nDAVID DANCING BEFORE THE ARK", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0226.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID.\\n199\\nWe are now going to read a very sad story about David. There\\nwas a man named Uriah, who had a wife named Bathsheba. Bathsheba\\nwas very beautiful; and David loved her very much, and wanted to marry\\nher but he knew he must not, because she was Uriah s wife. God says,\\nThou shalt not covet thy\\nneighbor s wife and it\\nwas very wicked of David\\nto do what God had com-\\nmanded him not to do.\\nBut David did not then\\nask God to help him\\nresist sin, and, therefore,\\nhe soon became more\\nwicked still. He wished\\nUriah were dead. He\\ncould not put him to\\ndeath; but he sent him to\\nfight, and hoped he would\\nbe killed in the battle.\\nThe Israelites were\\nthen fighting with the\\nAmmonites, and Joab was\\ncaptain of David s sol-\\ndiers; so David wrote a\\nletter to Joab, and said,\\nSet Uriah in the battle;\\nlet him stand in the front,\\nand do not help him; but\\nl^ave him alone, that he\\nmay be smitten and die.\\nThen David sent for Uriah\\nand pretended to be very NATHAN REPROVING david for his sin.\\nkind to him and gave him the letter, and told him to go to Joab.\\nWhen Joab had finished reading the letter, he called Uriah, and told\\nhim to stand in front of the battle, in a dangerous place. Uriah did not know\\nwhy he was to stand there; but he did as Joab commanded; and soon he was\\nslain by his enemies, and fell down dead. Then Joab sent and told David.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0227.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "200 THE STORY OF DAVID.\\nWas David sorry? No, he was glad; because he could now do as\\nhe wished, and marry Bathsheba. Satan was tempting David, and David\\nwas not trying to resist the temptation. He did not ask help from God\\nso God turned away from David, and left him to himself. Bathsheba\\nmourned for her husband some time and when the mourning was past,\\nDavid sent for her, and married her, and she became his wife.\\nOne day Nathan the prophet came to see David. Nathan did not\\nnow bring a message of love from God he had something very sad to say\\nto David; but he did not at once tell him about his wickedness, for God\\nwanted David himself to feel and confess his sin. Nathan began by telling\\nthis story to David.\\nHe said: There were two men living in a city; one was rich and\\nhad great possessions sheep, and oxen, and cattle. The other man was\\nvery poor he had only one little lamb. He loved this lamb very much\\nit ate out of his hand drank out of his cup, and lay in his bosom, and\\nwas unto him as a daughter. One day a friend came to see the rich man\\nand to eat with him. But the rich man would not kill his own sheep he\\nwent to the poor man s house, and took away the little lamb, and killed\\nit, and dressed it for his friend.\\nWhen Nathan had finished the story, David said angrily, The\\nman who has done this shall surely die, because he had no pity. Then\\nNathan looked at David and said, Thou art the man. God gave thee\\nriches and possessions many, many things. But what hast thou done\\nThou hast killed Uriah with the swcrd, and taken away his wife to be\\nthy wife. And now God must punish thee, the sword shall never depart\\nfrom thy house. Thou hast sinned secretly but God saw the sin, and he\\nwill punish it openly.\\nDavid now felt his wickedness he felt how sad it is to displease\\nGod. He did not try to deny nor excuse his sin but he confessed hum-\\nbly at once, I have sinned against the Lord.\\nDavid now had new troubles. When he was young, he was troubled\\nby Saul; when he was old, he was troubled by his own children. God\\nsent sorrow to David now to punish his sin. Sin is always the cause of\\nsorrow.\\nDavid had many sons and some of them were very wicked. One\\nwas named Absalom, and another Amnon. These two brothers did not live\\nin love and peace together; Absalom hated Amnon, and would not speak", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0228.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID.\\n201\\nto him. Hatred was in the heart of Absalom a long time, and it grew\\nstronger and stronger, till at last he determined to kill his brother Amnon\\nfor he could not rest while he lived.\\nHatred often ends in murder. The Bible says, He that hateth his\\nbrother is a murderer.\\nWhen we feel anger be-\\nginning to rise in our\\nhearts, we ought to ask God\\nto take it away, and make\\nus full of love. We cannot\\ntell how hatred may end.\\nHow did Absalom\\nkill his brother? He\\nthought he would kill him\\nslyly, without his father s\\nknowledge so he made a\\ngreat feast and invited all\\nhis brothers and com-\\nmanded his servants to\\nkill Amnon when he came.\\nAmnon came to the feast.\\nAnd when they were all\\nmerry, the servants rushed\\nin, and smote Amnon, and\\nkilled him. All his broth-\\ners were frightened, and\\nfled; and Absalom fled\\ntoo, because he was afraid\\nthat David might punish\\nhim for the murder.\\nThe king soon heard\\nthe sad story and he arose, ABSALOM CAUSES amnon to be SEAIN.\\nand rent his clothes, and lay on the ground, and wept; and all his sons\\nwept too. Where was Absalom He escaped to Geshur, and staid there three\\nyears. David did not see him all that time. One son was gone away; and\\nanother son was dead. David mourned for them both. At last Joab came\\nto the king and begged that Absalom might come home. David wanted", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0229.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "202 THE STORY OF DAVID.\\nto forgive his wicked sou, for lie still loved him; so he told Joab to send\\nand bring Absalom from Geshur.\\nBut David would not see his son; so Absalom staid at his own\\nhouse in Jerusalem. Was David right to let Absalom come back? No;\\nAbsalom was a wicked murderer, and God had commanded murderers to\\nbe put to death but David loved Absalom, and spared him. All the\\npeople admired him, and liked to look at him.\\nAbsalom pretended to be sorry, but he was not truly so; his heart\\nwas full of pride and rebellion still. Soon after, he prepared chariots and\\nhorses, and fifty men to run before him. And when he saw the people\\ngoing to the king for judgment, he often called to them, and spoke kindly\\nto them, and asked them what they wanted; for Absalom wished to make\\nthe people love him more than they loved his father. He wanted to be\\nking himself; and said he should be a better king than David.\\nThe people attended to what Absalom said, and many of them\\npromised to obey and love him as their king. David knew nothing about\\nthis, for Absalom was very sly, and deceived his father. He said to David,\\nLet me go now and pay my vow in Hebron: for I vowed when I was\\nin Geshur, that if the Lord would bring me back to Jerusalem, then I\\nwould serve him. David was pleased to hear this for he hoped his dis-\\nobedient son was going to begin to love and serve the Lord; so he said\\nto Absalom, Go in peace.\\nWhy did Absalom go to Hebron? Not to offer sacrifice; not to\\nworship God he went there to make himself king. He told the people\\nwhen they heard the trumpet to shout and say, Absalom reigns in\\nHebron. Very many of the people were in the conspiracy, but a few\\nwere still faithful to David and a messenger came and told him the news\\nabout his wicked son s rebellion.\\nWhat could David do He had very little time to think for\\nAbsalom might soon come to Jerusalem and kill him and the faithful\\npeople. So David said, Let us arise and flee. All David s servants\\nwere ready to follow him and they went away from Jerusalem as fast as\\npossible, and came to Mount Olivet.\\nThen David went on to Bahurim, where he had a new sorrow. A\\nwicked man named Shimei came out, and cursed him, and threw stones\\nat him, and said God was punishing him now for all his cruelty to Saul\\naud would take away the kingdom and give it to Absalom. This wicked", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0230.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID.\\n203\\nman did not speak the truth. God was indeed punishing David, but\\nnot because David was cruel to Saul. He was punishing him for mur-\\ndering Uriah.\\nDavid s friends were very angry with Shim ii they did not like\\nto hear their master so\\ncruelly accused, and they\\nsaid they would kill this\\nwicked man. But David\\nwould not let them. He\\nknew all these troubles\\ncame from God, and he\\nhumbly submitted to him.\\nSo David and his men went\\non quietly, without attend-\\ning to Shimei. Shimei s\\ncurses could not hurt\\nDavid because God was\\nhis friend, and took care of\\nhim still. He was safe in\\nGod s hands for God pun-\\nished him in love to make\\nhim humble and holy.\\nAnd David knew this.\\nWhere was Absa-\\nlom now He went to\\nJerusalem to his father s\\nhouse, and there he con-\\nsulted with his friends\\nwhat he should do. There\\nwas a friend of David with\\nAbsalom, named Hushai.\\nHushai pretended to be\\nDAVID STONED BY SHIMEI.\\nall the wicked prince said\\nAbsalom s friend, and listened to all the wicked prince said; and when\\nhe found that Absalom was determined to go to battle against his father,\\nhe told the priests, and they told David. So David made his soldiers ready\\nto go and fight against Absalom.\\nDavid must fight against his own son! But he still loved his son,", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0231.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "204\\nTHE STORY OF DAVID.\\nand he told the captains to be gentle with wicked Absalom. The battle\\nwas in the wood of Hphraim. David s soldiers soon conquered the rebellious\\npeople and twenty thousand were slain. Absalom rode upon a mule, and\\ntried to escape but as he went through the wood, his long hair caught in\\nthe branches of an oak,\\nand he was taken up\\nbetween the heaven and\\nthe earth. The mule went\\naway, and Absalom hung\\nin the oak so that he\\ncould not escape.\\nOne of David s sol-\\ndiers saw Absalom hang-\\ning, but the man did not\\nhurt him, because he re-\\nmembered David s com-\\nmand but he told Joab\\nand Joab took three darts,\\nand went to the tree where\\nAbsalom hung, and smote\\nhim, and killed him. So\\nthe battle was ended, and\\nDavid s soldiers had the\\nvictory.\\nBut where was Da-\\nvid himself? He did not\\nsee the battle. He was\\nwaiting by the gate of\\nthe city Mahanaim to\\nhear the news and the\\nwatchman went up to\\nthe top of the wall to\\nlook. At last the watchman saw a man running, and he told the king.\\nThen David began to tremble he felt very much afraid. Soon after\\nanother man was seen running. The first soon came to David, and fell\\ndown, and said, God has- delivered up the men who lifted their hand\\nagainst the king. But David thought most about his son and he asked,\\nTHE DEATH OF ABSALOM", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0232.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID. 205\\nIs the young man Absalom safe? The messenger said, I cannot tell.\\nThen the other man came to David, and said, The Lord has avenged\\nthee this day of all them that rose up against thee. But David could\\nnot attend to the victory he thought only about Absalom, and he cried\\nagain, Is the young man Absalom safe?\\nThe messenger did not wish to grieve the king he could not then\\ntell him the whole of the sad story he only said, May the king s\\nenemies all be as that young man is now. David understood what this\\nmeant he knew how it was with Absalom and he could not bear to hear\\nmore. He arose directly and went to his own room, for he wished to be\\nalone and as he went up, he cried very, very sorrowfully, O my son\\nAbsalom, my son, my son Absalom O Absalom, my son, my son\\nOne day a messenger came to David. It was Gad, the prophet of\\nthe Lord; and he brought a very sad message. He said, God had sent\\nhim to say, that he must punish David for his sin and he offered him\\none of these three punishments three years famine, or three months to be\\ndestroyed before his enemies or three days plague in the land and David\\nwas to choose which it should be. David felt it hard to make a choice,\\nbut he submitted patiently to God s will for he knew it was right that\\nhis sin should be punished. But what did he choose He said, Let us\\nfall into the hand of God, for his mercy is great, and let us not fall into\\nthe hand of man. Then Gad understood that David chose the plague.\\nIt was a fearful time for Israel when God sent the destroying angel\\namong them. David had been proud of the number of his subjects, and\\nnow God took very many of them away to humble David s pride. But did\\nthe Israelites deserve to be punished Yes they too had displeased God\\nand they were punished, as well as their king.\\nThree days the dreadful plague lasted in Canaan. The angel went\\nthrough the country, destroying wherever he went and, at last, he came\\nto Jerusalem, where David lived. David looked up, and saw the angel\\nstanding between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand. The\\nsword was over Jerusalem, ready to strike and destroy it. Then David fell\\non his face before God, and cried for mercy. He knew how merciful God\\nwas, and that he did not wish to destroy all his people that he is more\\nwilling to forgive than to punish so David said, It is I who sinned I\\ncommanded the people to be numbered I have done wickedly. Punish\\nme, but spare my people, for what have they done? And did God hear", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0233.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "206\\nTHE STORY OF DAVID.\\nDavid s prayer Yes he sent Gad again with a kind message to David.\\nGod said that David must build an altar, and offer up sacrifices and then\\nhe promised to forgive.\\nAnd now the time came for David to die; so he called his dear son\\nSolomon, to give him his\\nlast commands, and to bid\\nhim farewell. David told\\nSolomon to remember that\\nwicked man Joab, and\\npunish him as a murderer,\\nbecause he killed Abner,\\nmany years before, and\\ndeserved to die. And Shi-\\nmei, too, who had cursed\\nDavid, was to be pun-\\nished as Solomon should\\nthink right.\\nBut David charged\\nSolomon to be kind to\\nBarzillai, who had been\\nso kind to David when\\nhe was in sorrow and\\ntrouble. Did David feel\\nangry and revengeful when\\nhe was dying? No; but\\nhe knew that wicked men\\nmust be punished, because\\nthis is God s command.\\nGood kings must be just\\nthey must punish those\\nwho disobey God s laws.\\nCESSATION OF THE PLAGUE. D id David say anything\\nmore to Solomon Yes for David felt very anxious about him.\\nHe wished him to love and serve God, and to teach his people in\\nthe right way; and David knew that Solomon could not reign well, if God\\ndid not help and bless him. So David spoke very affectionately, and very\\nsolemnly to Solomon, and said, My son, know thou the God of thy fathers", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0234.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "KING SOLOMON. 207\\nmy God who lias kept me all my life long. Serve him with all thy heart,\\nsincerely and willingly; for God knows the heart. He knows who truly love\\nhim, and who only pretend to love him. He is ready to hear thy prayer;\\nand if thou seek him, thou shalt find him but if thou forsake him, he\\nwill cast thee off for ever. Then David looked up to Heaven, and sang a\\nbeautiful song of praise to God. All his troubles were ended now God\\nwas with him he closed his eyes in peace, and his happy soul went to be\\ntor ever in Heaven, far away from all sin and sorrow.\\nKING SOLOMON.\\nSOLOMON was now king. His reign was a very happy one; not\\nlike David s, full of sorrow and trouble. But some sad things\\nhappened in the beginning of Solomon s reign. Adonijah rebelled\\nagain, and was put to death. Joab, too, was slain, because he was in\\nAdonijah s conspiracy, and because of the murders he had formerly com-\\nmitted. Abiathar was sent away. Solomon could not let him be priest\\nany longer, for he also had rebelled with Adonijah; but Solomon did not\\nput him to death, because he had once been a kind friend to David. Was\\nShimei killed Not at first Solomon commanded him to stay quietly at\\nhis own house in Jerusalem, and promised him safety there; but if he went\\naway from Jerusalem, Solomon told him he should die. Shimei stayed at\\nhis house three years and then he disobeyed the king, and went to\\nAchish, at Gath.\\nShimei soon returned to Jerusalem but he had disobeyed Solomon,\\nand therefore he was slain. All this was very sad, but we know it was\\nright for these wicked men to die. Sin must be punished. Perhaps God\\ndoes not punish it directly; he waits many years he gives time for repent-\\nance; for he does not wish people to die in their wickedness. God is ready\\nto save all, and he will forgive the most wicked people, if they repent and\\nturn to him. But if not, he cannot wait for ever. He cannot forget sin\\nwhich is unrepented of, and unforgiven not washed away in the blood of\\nJesus. At last he will punish all rebellious sinners, as he punished wicked\\nAdonijah, and Joab, and Shimei, after so many years.\\nAll was quiet now: Solomon could reign in peace, because his\\nwicked enemies were dead. And did he remember all that his father had\\ntold him Did he try to serve God, and to teach his people to serve him", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0235.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "208\\nKING SOLOMON.\\ntoo? Yes, Solomon loved the Lord. He was young, and did not yet know\\nmuch but he wished and prayed to know more.\\nSolomon went to Gibeon, to sacrifice there. The tabernacle which\\nMoses made, was at Gibeon, and the brazen altar. But the ark was at\\nJerusalem, in the tent\\nwhich David had made for\\nit. Solomon offered a thou-\\nsand burnt-offerings upon\\nthe altar at Gibeon. He\\nhad great possessions, and\\nlie liked to give much of\\nwhat he bad to God. He\\nwanted to show bis love\\nand his thankfulness to\\nhim. And Solomon offered\\nhis sacrifices in faith.\\nWhen tbe sacrifices\\nwere ended, and Sojomon\\nlay down to sleep, God\\nappeared to him in a dream.\\nGod came to encourage\\nand to comfort young Solo-\\nmon. He spoke to him,\\nand said, Ask, what I\\nshall give thee. How\\nkind God was, to promise\\nSolomon to give him what\\nhe asked What did Solo-\\nmon choose Did he\\nchoose riches, or posses-\\nsions, or honors No, he\\nwanted what was better\\nthan these. He knew that worldly things must soon pass away; he wished\\nfor something which he could never, never lose. He said, Lord, I am\\nvery young and ignorant. I have no power to teach my people in the\\nright way. Give me now wisdom and knowledge, a wise and understanding\\nheart that I may know how to rule my people as it shall please thee.\\nSOLOMON ASKS WISDOM FROM GOD.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0236.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "KING SOLOMON.\\n209\\nDid God give Solomon what he asked? Yes; God was pleased with\\nhis choice. Solomon had asked for the best thing heavenly wisdom, not\\nworldly possessions. God said, I have given thee wisdom and under-\\nstanding and I will give thee more I will give thee what thou hast not\\nasked riches, and posses-\\nsions, and honors and if\\nthou wilt serve me, and\\nobey my commands, I will\\nbless thee, and keep thee\\nall thy life long. Then\\nSolomon awoke, and found\\nit was a dream. But how\\nhappy he felt now God\\nwas with him he had\\nheard his prayer, and\\npromised to love and bless\\nhim, and to be his friend.\\nSolomon went to\\nJerusalem, and there of-\\nfered more sacrifices to\\nthe Lord. And now he\\nbegan to show his great\\nwisdom. Two women came\\nto the king for judgment.\\nThey had with them\\ntwo little babes. One\\nwas alive and well, but\\nthe other was dead. The\\nw )tuen were angry, and\\nquarrelling with each\\nother. One said, O my\\nlord, I and this woman the judgment of Solomon.\\nlive together in one house. We had each a little son. Her child died in\\nthe night and when she found it was dead, she brought it to me, and\\nlaid it in my arms, when I was asleep, and stole away my own baby from\\nme; and when I awoke, and looked at the dead child in my arms, I knew it\\nwas not mine. But the other cried angrily, The living child is mine.\\n14", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0237.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "210 KING SOLOMON.\\nSo they spoke before the king. It was sad to see them so angry\\nand passionate, but what could Solomon do How could he know the\\nright mother of the living child? His wonderful wisdom which God had\\ngiven him, helped Solomon to judge rightly. He said, Bring me a sword.\\nHis servants brought the sword, aud then Solomon said, Divide the living\\nchild in two, and give half to one woman, and half to the other. Was\\nSolomon cruel No, he wanted to know who was the right mother. He\\nknew she would be very sorry to see her child killed, and would cry to\\nhave it saved but the other woman, who was not the true mother, would\\nnot care so much. And he thought rightly. The true mother cried, Oh,\\ndo not divide the child. Give it to the other woman, she may have it all;\\nbut O do not kill it.\\nBut the other woman said, Yes, let it be divided; for she did not\\ncare much for the baby, because it was not her own child. Then Solomon\\nsaid, I know now who is the right mother of the living child. It is the\\nwoman who loves it so much that she cannot bear to have it killed. Give\\nher the child, and let them go. So Solomon gave the living babe to the\\nright mother, and sent tb women away and all the people wondered at\\nSolomon s wisdom.\\nWas Solomon a very happy king? Yes, he had much to make him\\nhappy. He had riches, and possessions, and honors, and knowledge.\\nCould these things make him truly happy No, but Solomon had some-\\nthing more and better than all he had God s love and blessing. Solomon\\nwas very wise he understood many things, and wrote many learned\\nbooks. He wrote about animals, and trees, and flowers. He knew the\\nnames and the histories of them all.\\nIt is very pleasant to have much knowledge and when we learn\\nabout the wonderful works of God, the beautiful animals and plants around\\nus, and the sun, and moon, and stars, which we see shining so brightly\\nin the sky, we should praise God who gave them all to us, and thank\\nand bless him. It is right to wish for knowledge, and children ought to\\nbe very attentive to those who teach them, and very anxious to become\\nwise. But we must not be proud of what we know.\\nSolomon knew more than any man ever knew, but he was not\\nproud. None of us know much. We are all ignorant, and we ought all\\nto be humble. God alone knows all things the past, the present, the\\nfuture every thing, every where he knows. How wonderful God is But", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0238.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "KING SOLOMON. 211\\nwhat is the best knowledge, the best wisdom The knowledge of God\\nand of heavenly things. All earthly wisdom must soon end bnt holy,\\nheavenly wisdom will last for ever. If we ask God for this, he will teach\\nus more and more of it while we live and, at last, take us to heaven,\\nwhere we shall know and see things which we cannot understand here.\\nSolomon now began to think of David s command, and prepared to\\nbuild the temple of God. He wrote to Hiram, the king of Tyre, to tell\\nhim what he wished to do. Solomon asked Hiram to send him cedar trees\\nfrom Lebanon, to build the house of the Lord. Then Hiram sent to\\nSolomon, saying, I will do all thy wish, and give thee cedar trees and\\nfir trees from the forest in Lebanon. My servants shall cut them down,\\nand bring them to the sea and I will send them by sea to the place thou\\nshalt choose.\\nThen Solomon began the work directly. He sent many of his\\nservants to Lebanon, to help Hiram s servants to cut down the trees.\\nThen all the wood was carried to the sea, and floated down to Joppa and\\nthere Solomon sent hie people to take the wood, and bring it safely to\\nJerusalem. Hiram and Solomon were great friends, and they helped one\\nanother to work for God s service and glory. Those are the best friends\\nwho try to help one another to serve God.\\nThe temple which Solomon made was a very beautiful building. It\\nwas made of cedar wood, wonderfully carved, and overlaid with gold.\\nWithin the house was the oracle, the holy place, like the holy of holies\\nin the tabernacle, where the ark was to be placed. The craclc was divided\\nfrom the other part of the house by doors, beautifully carved, and overlaid\\nwith gold and a thick veil of red, and purple, and blue hung before the\\noracle. Inside the oracle, Solomon put beautiful golden cherubim, like the\\ncherubim in the tabernacle.\\nHe made, too, an altar of brass, and a great basin or sea, with the\\nfigures of twelve oxen round the basin and ten tables, and ten lavers,\\nand ten golden candlesticks. These things were outside the oracle. All\\nthe holy vessels were made of gold.\\nWhen Solomon had finished the temple, he built a beautiful house\\nfor himself. He built also many cities, and a house for his queen, and a\\nnavy of ships. The ships used to go every year to distant countries, to\\nbring back gold, and silver, and ivory, and apes, and peacocks. People in\\nthose distant lands wondered very much when they heard about Solomon s", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0239.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "212\\nKING SOLOMON.\\nriches and wisdom. Many came to Jerusalem to see the king, and to heai\\nhis wisdom and they brought presents with them gold, and silver, and\\ngarments, and spices, and horses and mules.\\nSo Solomon became more and more rich. He had 1,400 chariots,\\nand 2,000 horsemen. All\\nhis vessels were made of\\ngold, and his throne was\\nof ivory overlaid with gold.\\nThere were six steps going\\nup to the throne, and the\\nfigures of lionr upon the\\nsteps, and he had in his\\nhouse many other beauti-\\nful things. He could have\\nall he wanted, because he\\nwas so very rich.\\nThere was a queen\\nwho came to see Solomon\\nfrom a very distant coun-\\ntry. The country where\\nshe lived is called Sheba\\nin the Bible. We do not\\nnow know a country named\\nSheba; perhaps it was in\\nArabia or Abyssinia. This\\nqueen heard a great deal\\nin her own country about\\nSolomon, and she wanted\\nto see him. It was a long\\njourney to Jerusalem, but\\nshe did not care for the\\nthe QUEEN of sheba visiting Solomon. trouble and difficulty, be-\\ncause she wished so much to see Solomon. She brought with her a great\\nmany servants, and camels, and gold, and spices, to give to the king.\\nWas Solomon glad to see her? Yes, he was kind to the good queen; he\\nshowed her all his possessions his house, and his throne, and his servants,\\nand the temple of God.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0240.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "KING SOLOMON. 213\\nThen the queen asked him many questions, and he answered them\\nall. He told her about the worship and service of the true God and of\\nall the wonderful things he did for his people Israel. This was new to\\nthe Queen of Sheba she had never heard of these things in her own\\ncounty, and she was glad to learn about them. She attended to all the\\nking told her, and after he had finished, she said, When I was in my\\nown country, I heard of thy wisdom it was very little I heard there, yet\\nI could not then believe it but now that I have seen all, I find thy wisdom\\nand thy possessions are much, much greater than I thought. Happy are\\nthy servants who stand by thee, and hear thy wisdom. Happy are the people\\nwho have thee for their king, to teach them the knowledge of God\\nThen the queen blessed and praised Solomon s God, and Solomon\\ngave her everything she wished, and she and her servants returned to\\ntheir own country. And did the good queen forget all the wise and holy\\nthings she had learned at Jerusalem or did she try to teach her people\\nat home what Solomon had taught her? The Bible tells us no more\\nabout her but we may hope that she did not forget Solomon s instructions\\nand that she and many of her people began to serve the true God.\\nSolomon was now growing an old man. Did he still love and serve\\nGod more and more, like good old Samuel and David No we read very\\nsad things about Solomon s old age. He turned away from the true God,\\nwho had kept and blessed him all his life, and began to worship the idols\\nwhich his wicked wives worshipped. Why was this? How could this good\\nand wise king become so wicked and so foolish Because he was, like our-\\nselves, weak and sinful. All his strength and goodness came from God and\\nwhen Solomon forgot to pray for help, then God s Holy Spirit went away\\nfrom him and Satan, and his own wicked heart, soon taught him to sin.\\nWhat made him forget God? Perhaps he grew proud of his riches,\\nand power, and possessions, and wisdom, and loved them so much, and\\nthought about them so much, that he could not love and think about God.\\nHe loved the world more and more, and God less and less and, at last,\\nhe forsook God altogether, and God forsook him. How sad it is to love\\nthe world, and to forget God, and to lose his blessing Was Solomon\\nhappy now No he had no true peace, no comfort from all his worldly\\nthings. He tried them all. He walked about in his beautiful gardens and\\nvineyards he gathered and ate the fruit, and smelled the sweet flowers\\nbut soon he grew tired of them, and threw them all away.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0241.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "214\\nKING SOLOMON.\\nThen he went into his fine houses, and looked at his silver and\\ngold, and called his servants to play and sing to him. He was pleased\\nfor a little time, but soon he was weary of this too. Then he remembered\\nhis wisdom, and went to his books and studies, and he felt pleased to\\nthink how much he knew.\\nBut he could not read\\nlong; he grew tired, and\\nput away his books, and\\nsaid, All is vanity, and\\nsorrow, and vexation of\\nspirit. Solomon ate and\\ndrank, but he did not care\\nfor anything; all was soon\\ngone, and then he was\\nunhappy and discontented\\nagain. How unhappy he\\nwas now with all his\\nriches, and all his wis-\\ndom! He went about\\nfrom place to place, cry-\\ning, Vanity vanity\\nall is vanity and vexa-\\ntion of spirit.\\nAnd why was this\\nBecause God s blessing\\nwas not upon Solomon\\nnow; he had not God s\\nsmile to make him happy\\nin all he did he was\\nnot trying to serve God,\\nhe was trying only to\\nplease himself. He had\\nIDOLATRY OP SOLOMON AND HIS WIVES.\\neverything the world could give him, but he found all to be vanity.\\nDid Solomon never have true peace and happiness again Did he\\nnever repent and turn to God, and ask for forgiveness We may hope he\\ndid. God loved Solomon, and he would not let him die in his wickedness,\\nand perish for ever. When Solomon found that worldly things could not", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0242.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "KING SOLOMON.\\n215\\ncomfort him, we may liope that he turned again to God, and asked for\\npardon and that God forgave him all his sin, and loved, and blessed, and\\ncomforted him once more. And then Solomon felt what ought to be our\\ngreat business in this world, and he said, Fear God and keep his com-\\nmandments, for this is the\\nwhole duty of man.\\nSolomon reigned\\nforty years. His riches\\nand power could not save\\nhim from death. All must\\ndie. Rich and poor, kings\\nand queens, and their peo-\\nple too all must go down\\nto the grave. Then shall\\nthe dust return to the\\nearth as it was, and the\\nspirit shall return to God\\nwho gave it.\\nAfter the death of\\nSolomon, his son Reho-\\nboam went to Shechem,\\nto be made king. Jero-\\nboam heard of this, and\\ncame from Egypt, and\\ncalled all Israel to him.\\nThen Jeroboam and the\\npeople of Israel sent a\\nvery disrespectful message\\nto Rehoboam, and said,\\nThy father Solomon was\\nunkind to us, and made\\nhard laws which we did rehoboam refusing to remit taxes.\\nnot like. Do thou be kind, and make easy laws, and then we will serve\\nand obey thee.\\nWhen Rehoboam heard this message, he asked the old men, who\\nhad been his father s friends, to give him advice. The old men said,\\nSpeak gently to the people, and then they will be thy servants, and love", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0243.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "216 KING SOLOMON.\\nand obey thee. But Rehoboam did not attend to this good advice of the\\nold men. He called his own friends, foolish, self-willed young men, and\\nhe asked them, What shall I do? The young men said, Speak\\nharshly to the people, and tell them that the laws shall be more strict\\nnow than they were in Solomon s time. Rehoboam attended to this\\nfoolish advice, and called Jeroboam, and all Israel, and said, My father s\\nlaws were strict, but I will make them more strict. He punished you a\\nlittle, I will punish you very much. This answer made Jeroboam and\\nthe people very angry, and they said, We will not obey Rehoboam.\\nSo the people of Israel made Jeroboam their king, and he reigned over ten\\ntribes but Judah and Benjamin followed Rehoboam.\\nBut why did God take away ten tribes from Rehoboam Because\\nof Solomon s sin. God had not forgotten the message he sent to Jeroboam\\nby Ahijah. All God says, he remembers, and does; and he must always\\npunish sin.\\nThere were two kings in the land of Canaan now, Rehoboam \\\\nd\\nJeroboam, and they were always fighting against one another. Were they\\ngood kings No, both were very wicked. Rehoboam was not like his\\nfather, but foolish and self-willed and his people were wicked too, and,\\ntherefore, God s blessing was not upon them. An enemy came to fight\\nagainst them, Shishak, king of Egypt, and he took many of their cities,\\nand came to Jerusalem. Rehoboam and his people felt very much fright-\\nened when they saw Shishak coming with all his soldiers, and chariots,\\nand horses. They had cause to fear for God sent a very sad message to\\nthem by a prophet, to tell them how angry he was Thus saith the\\nLord, ye have forsaken me, and now I have given you up to the power of\\nyour enemies.\\nRehoboam and his people were all very sorry to hear this. What\\ncould they do They did what was best they humbled themselves before\\nGod. When we sin and make God angry, we ought to ask humbly for\\npardon. God is always willing to hear prayer. He heard the prayer of\\nRehoboam and his people, and said, I will not destroy Rehoboam,\\nbecause he is humble and sorry for his sin. So Jerusalem was spared,\\nand Shishak went away but he took with him many beautiful things\\nwhich Solomon had put in the temple of the Lord.\\nJeroboam was very wicked too. He taught the people to worship\\nimages, golden calves, which he put in Bethel and Dan. He would .not", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0244.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "KING SOLOMON.\\n217\\nlet his people go to Jerusalem, to worship God in the right way there;\\nbut he chose to worship in his own way, and to make priests of the people\\nwho were not Levites. This was disobedience to the command of God;\\nfor he had said that the Levites should be priests, and they alone.\\nOne day, Jeroboam was standing by his altar at Bethel, burning\\nincense. A prophet of\\nGod came from Judah to\\nBethel, and went to the\\naltar, and cried, altar,\\naltar, thus saith the Lord\\nthere shall be born a king\\nin Judah, named Josiah,\\nand upon thee shall he\\noffer the priests that burn\\nincense upon thee, and\\nmen s bones shall be burnt\\nupon thee. Then the\\naltar was rent, and the\\nashes poured out, as a sign\\nto show Jeroboam that the\\nprophecy came from God.\\nJeroboam was angry\\nwith the prophet, for he\\ndid not like to hear that\\nhis altar should be de-\\nstroyed and he put out\\nhis hand, to lay hold of\\nthe man of God But\\nthe wicked king had no\\npower to hurt God s pro-\\nphet. The hand of Jero-\\nboam dried up directly,\\nso that he had no strength destruction of the altar foreToed.\\nto move it. God smote Jeroboam, to punish him for his wickedness in\\ntrying to hurt his servant.\\nThe king was frightened when he looked at his withered hand, and\\nfound he had no power to use it. He said humbly to the prophet, Ask", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0245.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "218 KING SOLOMON.\\nGod to forgive me, and to make my hand well again. Was the prophet\\nwilling to be kind to his enemy? Yes, he did not wish to be revengeful;\\nhe knew he ought to love and pray for his enemies. So the prophet\\nprayed, and God mercifully heard his prayer, and made Jeroboam s hand\\nstrong and well again.\\nWas Jeroboam thankful to the prophet who prayed God to make his\\nhand well again Yes, Jeroboam said to him, Come home with me, and\\nrest thyself, and eat bread at my house, and I will give thee money. But\\nthe prophet said, No, I must not go back with thee. God commanded\\nme not to eat nor drink in this place, but to go away directly by another\\nroad. So the prophet went away, and Jeroboam returned to his house alone.\\nThere was an old man who lived at Bethel who was a prophet too,\\nbut he was not a good man. When his sons came home that day they\\ntold him the wonderful story of the prophet who came from Judah, and\\nprophesied about Jeroboam s altar and of the king s hand withering when\\nhe tried to lay hold of the man of God and how it was cured when the\\nprophet prayed to God. The old man wondered very much to hear these\\nthings, and said, I should like to see this prophet, and talk to him\\nwhere is he gone The sons showed their father the road the prophet\\nhad taken and then the old man saddled his ass and rode after him, to\\nseek him. Did he find him? Yes, at last he saw the prophet sitting\\nunder an oak tree.\\nThen the old man went to him and asked, Art thou the prophet\\nwho came from Judah? He said, Yes, I am. Then the old man\\nsaid, Come home with me, and eat bread. But the prophet answered,\\nNo, I must not God commanded me to eat no bread and drink no water\\nhere, and I cannot disobey him. But the old man said, I am a prophet\\ntoo and an angel appeared to me, and told me to go to thee, and bring\\nthee home, and give thee bread to eat and water to drink.\\nThe old man and the prophet went home together, and sat down to\\neat and drink. And now punishment came upon the disobedient prophet.\\nGod had seen all he did. His eye is always upon us. Wherever we go,\\nwhatever we do, he knows all. When we obey and serve him, and trust\\nin him to guide us in all our ways, then his blessing follows us, and we\\nare safe wherever we go. But if we are disobedient to him, and forget or\\nrebel against his commands, then we sin against him, and his frown is\\nupon us, and not his smile.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0246.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "KING SOLOMON.\\n219\\nGod sent a message to the old man, while they were all sitting at\\ntable. It was a very sad message. The old man cried to the prophet,\\nThns saith the Lord because thou hast disobeyed the command of God\\nthou shalt not go to thy home again but thou shalt die by the way, and\\nthy body shall not be\\nburied in thy father s\\ntomb. The poor prophet\\nsaw now how dangerous\\nit is to disobey God.\\nWhen they had\\nfinished eating, the pro-\\nphet saddled his ass and\\nwent away. He looked\\nup and saw a lion in the\\nroad coming to meet him.\\nGod sent that lion it came\\nto punish the disobedient\\nprophet and it rushed\\nupon him and killed him\\nin a moment. But the\\nlion did not hurt the ass,\\nnor devour the dead body\\nof the man.\\nThe people who\\npassed by soon came and\\ntold the sad story to the\\nold prophet. He knew\\nwhy the man of God was\\nslain, and he felt very\\nsorry, and went directly\\nto the place where the\\nlion had killed him. What\\ndid he see there? The poor prophet s dead body lying on the road, and\\nthe lion and the ass standing by it. The old man took up the dead body\\nand laid it on his ass, and carried it home. Then he put it in his own\\ntomb, and mourned over it, and cried, Alas my brother.\\nHe said to his sons, When I die bury me by the man of God.\\nTHE PROPHET SEAIN BY A EION.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0247.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "220 KING SOLOMON.\\nLay my bones by his bones. I know that what he prophesied about\\nthe altar of Bethel shall all be found true. The old prophet believed the\\nword of God.\\nWe now come again to the history of a very good king. His name\\nwas Asa; he was king of Judah, and son of Abijah. When Asa began to\\nreign, he found his people very ignorant of God. They had learnt to be\\nidolaters to worship images and new gods, and not their own God, the\\ntrue God, who made all things. But when Asa was king, he knew it was\\nhis duty to teach his people the right way. So he threw down all the\\nidol-altars, and the images, and commanded Judah to seek the Lord.\\nWas there rest in Judah all the years that Asa reigned No all\\ncountries, and people, everywhere, must have trouble sometimes; and Asa\\nhad his troubles. Enemies came to fight against him. They were very,\\nvery many, and they came with chariots and horses, and made ready for\\nbattle. Was Asa frightened Perhaps he was at first but he knew where\\nto find help. Did he trust in his soldiers, and his armor, and his strong\\ncities No, Asa knew that all these things could not help him.\\nThere was no power in them but the good king went to God and\\nasked for his help. He prayed and said, Lord, we trust in thee to help\\nus we have no power in ourselves but we know that thou wilt hear us,\\nand fight our enemies for us, and then we shall have the victory. Thou\\nart our God; in thy name we go to fight against this army of our\\nenemies. Then Asa and his people felt safe and happy, because they knew\\nthat God would hear and answer their prayer. And so he did. He smote\\ntheir enemies, and gave Asa and his people the victory.\\nAsa was growing an old man. He had had many happ3 r and peace-\\nful years, but now trouble came again. The king of Israel and his army\\nfought against him. Did Asa remember the kindness of God in past times\\nDid he go to him again for safety No, Asa forgot to do this he did\\nnot now trust in God, but he went to the king of Syria, and asked\\nhelp from him. The king of Syria was very willing to help Asa. He\\nsent captains and soldiers to fight for him, and soon the Israelites\\nwere conquered.\\nBut Asa had displeased God, because he had trusted more in the\\nking of Syria than he had trusted in the Lord and therefore a prophet\\nwas sent to Asa to tell him how angry God was. Asa had sinned, and\\nGod must punish him. The prophet said, Thou hast done foolishly.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0248.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "KING SOLOMON.\\n221\\nThou hast trusted in the king of Syria, and not in God. Now thou shalt\\nhave wars, and battles, and fighting in thy kingdom, all the rest of thy\\nlife This was sad news for Asa. He had been foolish and wicked too.\\nWhen we are in trouble, God alone can give us true help and comfort.\\nHow foolish and ungrate-\\nful we are when we for-\\nget this\\nThe rest of Asa s\\nlife was not happy, as it\\nhad been before. When\\npeople forget and dis-\\nobey God they cannot\\nbe happy. Asa was not\\nhumbled when he heard\\nGod s message to him.\\nHe did not, like David,\\nconfess his sin directly\\nand ask for forgiveness.\\nNo, Asa was very angry\\nwith the prophet who\\ntold him what God said.\\nThis was still more\\nwrong in Asa.\\nThe prophet spoke\\nas God commanded, and\\nAsa should have at-\\ntended humbly to the\\nmessage he brought, and\\nprayed to be enabled to\\ndo better in future. Asa,\\nin his anger, shut up\\nthe faithful prophet in a hanani imprisoned FOR rebuking ASA.\\nprison, where he could speak to him no more. But God s message was\\ntrue, and Asa suffered from wars all the rest of his life, while the poor\\nprophet was alone and sorrowful in his prison.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0249.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELIJAH.\\nAHAB was king after Omri s death. He was more wicked than any\\nof the kings who reigned before him in Israel. His wife s name\\nwas Jezebel, and she encouraged her husband in his sins and\\nidolatries. They both worshipped Baal, and taught their people to worship\\nhim too. Were all the\\nIsraelites idolaters now\\nWas there none to teach\\nthem about God Were\\nthere no holy prophets in\\nIsrael still There were\\nyet a few faithful servants\\nof God; and a holy prophet\\nwas living in the coun-\\ntry, who boldly preached\\nthe truth to the people of\\nIsrael. This prophet was\\nElijah. The Bible tells\\nus many wonderful and\\nbeautiful stories about him.\\nGod told Elijah to\\ngo to king Ahab, and\\nsay, that he would send\\nno rain, and no dew, upon\\nthe land of Israel for a\\nlong time. Israel had for-\\ngotten their kind and mer-\\nciful God who gave them\\nall their good things.\\nThey did not thank him\\nfor his blessings; they did\\nnot ask him for the food\\nELIJAH S PROPHECY AGAINST ahab. they needed they were\\nworshipping Baal, not God and, therefore, God punished his ungrateful\\npeople by taking away their blessings. He taught them, in this way, that\\n222", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0250.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELIJAH. 223\\nlie alone could give them their good things, and that he could take all\\naway too, if he pleased.\\nThis was a sad time for Israel. No rain fell to water the ground\\nso the grass dried up, and then there was no food for the poor animals\\nand no corn, nor fruits, for the people to eat. A famine is a dreadful thing.\\nBut where was Elijah now God took care of him he told him where\\nto go, and how he should be fed. There was a little brook of water near\\nJordan named Cherith, and God told Elijah to go and hide himself there.\\nWhy must he hide himself? Because Elijah had enemies who were\\nseeking to kill him. Ahab and Jezebel hated him, because he told them\\nthe truth, and spoke to them about their sins, and warned them of God\\nanger. It was right of Elijah to tell them all this but wicked people\\nlove their sins, and do not like to be reproved for them. Ahab aid\\nJezebel hated all God s holy prophets, and sought for them to put them\\nto death: but Elijah was safely kept by God at the brook Cherith.\\nWhat did he eat there There was no corn, nor fruit yet he had\\nplenty every day. Who gave him his daily food? God sent it to him in\\na very wonderful way. Not by a friend, nor a prophet, nor a servant, nor\\nan angel. God sent it to him every day by ravens. Every morning the\\nravens came to Elijah. One carried flesh in its beak; another carried\\nbread. The ravens did not eat the food themselves. They brought it to\\nElijah; and he took it from them, and then they flew away; and every\\nevening the ravens came again, and brought more bread and flesh to\\nElijah; and when he was thirsty he drank the water of the brook. He\\nwas alone only God was with him but Elijah was happy.\\nThere was a man named Naboth, who lived in Jezreel, and had a\\nvineyard there, very near king Ahab s palace. It was a very pleasant\\ngarden; and the king often looked at it, and said, I wish that garden\\nwere mine. But Naboth would not sell his vineyard, because it was the\\ninheritance appointed for him by God; and he said to Ahab, I cannot\\ngive my father s inheritance to thee. When the king heard this, he was\\nangry and when he went home, he sat sullenly without speaking and\\nwhen food was brought to him, he sent it away, and would not eat it.\\nWhen Jezebel saw how displeased Ahab was, she asked, Why art\\nthou so sad that thou eatest no bread? Then Ahab said, Because I\\nasked Naboth to let me buy his vineyard, and he will not part with it.\\nAhab was lying idly on his bed, for he was so angry he would do nothing", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0251.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "224\\nTHE STORY OF EUJAH.\\nbut now Jezebel said to him, Arise, and eat, and be merry, and I will\\ngive thee the vineyard of Naboth. Wicked Jezebel had no right to do\\nthis the vineyard did not belong to her; but she was not afraid of doing\\nwrong, or of making God angry. So she wrote letters, and sealed them\\nwith Ahab s seal, and sent\\nthem to the nobles who\\nlived at Jezreel.\\nWhat did she say\\nin the letters She wrote,\\nTake Naboth, and bring\\nhim out before the peo-\\nple and let two men accuse\\nhim of rebellion against\\nGod and the king; and\\nthen carry him away, and\\nstone him, that he may\\ndie. This wicked com-\\nmand came to the nobles\\nin Jezreel and after they\\nhad read it, they went\\nto Naboth s house, and\\nbrought him out before\\nthe people to be judged.\\nHad Naboth done wrong\\nNo but the nobles sent\\nfor two wicked men who\\nwrongfully accused him,\\nand said, Naboth has\\nrebelled against God, and\\nagainst the king. These\\nwicked men forgot the\\nahab accused of THE DEATH OF naboth. ninth commandment, in\\nwhich it is said, Thou shalt not bear false witness. But the nobles\\nattended to what the false witnesses said, and they brought out Naboth,\\nand stoned him with stones till he died. Then they sent to the queen\\nand said, Naboth is dead.\\nJezebel was glad to hear this and she ran directly, and told Ahab,", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0252.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELIJAH.\\n225\\nand said, Go and take possession of the vineyard. Naboth cannot take\\nit away from thee now, for he is stoned and dead. Then Ahab was\\nBut God had seen all\\nand all Tezebel s deceit\\npleased and arose directly, and went to Jezreel.\\nthis wickedness. He knew all Ahab s selfishness\\nand cruelty. He had heard\\nthe lies of the false wit-\\nnesses, and seen Naboth\\ndie and now he called\\nElijah, and sent him with\\na fearful message to Ahab\\nat Jezreel. The wicked\\nking was walking in the\\nvineyard he felt pleased\\nthat he could possess it;\\nand he thought he was\\nsafe now that Naboth\\nwas dead.\\nBut soon Ahab saw\\nElijah coming to meet\\nhim, and he felt very\\nmuch frightened for he\\nknew Elijah was sent to\\nhim by God. All his pos-\\nsessions could not make\\nAhab feel safe and happy\\nnow. He said to Elijah,\\nHast thou found me, O\\nmine enemy? Elijah\\nanswered, Yes, I have\\nfound thee. God has seen\\nthy sin, and he has sent\\na message to thee by me. JEZEBEL devoured by dogs.\\nAll thy family shall be destroyed, like the families of Jeroboam and\\nBaasha. In the place where Naboth was killed, the dogs shall lick thy\\nblood, and eat the flesh of Jezebel. All this shall come upon thee, because\\nof thine idolatry, and wickedness, and rebellion against God.\\nAhab was frightened when he heard this message. His pleasure\\n15", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0253.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "226 THE STORY OF ELIJAH.\\nwas all gone and lie went home sorrowfully, and rent his clothes, and\\nate no food, and spoke humbly and gently. Ahab s repentance and\\nhumility soon ended. He was not really sorry for sin, and he did not\\nask for pardon. But God was so merciful that when he saw Ahab\\nhumbling himself before him, he said, I will spare Ahab a little longer.\\nI will not punish his family now.\\nWho was now king of Judah? Asa was dead, and his son Jehosha-\\nphat reigned in Jerusalem. Jehoshaphat was a good man like his father;\\nbut he was friendly with wicked Ahab, and came to see him at Samaria.\\nThe Syrians were fighting again against Israel, and Ahab wished very\\nmuch to go to Ramoth-Gilead, and take it back from the king of Syria;\\nand he asked Jehoshaphat to go with him. The king of Judah was very\\nwilling to go he said, I am as thou art my people as thy people my\\nhorses as thy horses. Was this right? No; Jehoshaphat was a servant\\nof God, and Ahab was a wicked idolater; and it is wrong for God s people\\nto choose their friends among Satan s people, and to love their company.\\nJehoshaphat did not like to go to the battle without asking God s\\nblessing and he wished Ahab to ask the prophets to tell them the word\\nof the Lord. There were many wicked prophets in Israel then; and Ahab\\ncalled for some of these, and asked, Shall I go to Ramoth-Gilead or\\nno Then they all said, Yes, go God will give the city into thy\\nhand. But Jehoshaphat feared that these wicked prophets were deceiving\\nAhab so he said, Is there not a prophet of the Lord here Let us ask\\nof him. Then Ahab answered, Yes there is one man, named Micaiah\\nbut I do not like him, because he always prophesies evil about me, and\\nnot good. But Jehoshaphat still wished to see Micaiah, so Ahab sent a\\nmessenger to call him.\\nWhen the messenger came to Micaiah, he said, Go now to Ahab,\\nand prophesy as the other prophets do they all tell Ahab to go to\\nRamoth-Gilead to conquer speak like them try to please the king do\\nnot make him angry. But Micaiah answered, I shall speak the truth\\nwhich God tells me to speak. Micaiah was not afraid of Ahab s anger;\\nbut he was very much afraid of making God angry, by speaking lies and\\ndeceit. Pray that you, like good Micaiah, may never be afraid of speak-\\ning the truth.\\nThe two kings were sitting upon their thrones, dressed in their\\nrobes and all the wicked prophets stood and prophesied before them.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0254.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELIJAH.\\n227\\nThe prophets said, Go to Ramoth-Gilead, and conquer God shall give it\\ninto the king s hand. When Micaiah came in, Ahab said to him, Tell\\nme now the truth shall I go to Ramoth-Gilead, and fight and conquer\\nthere, or no\\nThen Micaiah began to tell Ahab the fearful message God had sent\\nto him. He said, I saw,\\nin a vision, the Lord sit-\\nting on his throne, and\\nall the holy angels stand-\\ning around him. And the\\nLord said, Who will tempt\\nAhab to go to Ramoth-\\nGilead, that he may fall\\nand die there Then a\\nwicked spirit came to the\\nLord, and said, I will\\ntempt Ahab to go to\\nRamoth-Gilead. I will\\nteach his prophets to lie,\\nand deceive him and they\\nshall persuade him to go.\\nAnd the Lord said to the\\nwicked spirit, Go, and do\\nas thou hast said.\\nThen Micaiah turn-\\ned to Ahab, and said,\\nThese prophets who\\nstand around, are lying\\nprophets. The wicked\\nspirit I saw in the vision,\\nhas taught them to de-\\nceive the}^ are tempting\\nthee to go to the battle, micaiah prophesying against ahab.\\nand thou shalt fall and die there for God himself has spoken evil about\\nthee. Then Ahab grew very angry and one of the wicked prophets struck\\nMicaiah on the face, and laughed at what he said. Ahab turned to his\\nservants, and said, Take Micaiah away, and put him in prison, and feed", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0255.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "228 THE STORY OF ELIJAH.\\nhim with bread and water, till I return in peace. But Micaiah said,\\nThou wilt never return in peace again and then he turned to the\\npeople, and said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.\\nThe good prophet was carried to his prison and wicked Ahab went\\nwith Jehoshaphat to Ramoth-Gilead. But Micaiah was happy and peaceful\\nin the prison, because God was with him there to bless and comfort him.\\nHe was more happy than Ahab for Ahab felt frightened and uncomfort-\\nable, because he knew that he was doing wrong, and that God s blessing\\nwas not with him.\\nWhen the two kings and their armies came to the battle-field, Ahab\\nsaid to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself when I go to fight but put\\nthou on thy robes. Ahab was afraid the Syrians would try to kill him;\\nand he thought he should be safer in disguise, because no one could know\\nhim then. When the Syrians saw Jehoshaphat in his robes, they said,\\nThat is the king of Israel let us fight him, and kill him. But Jeho-\\nshaphat cried, No, I am not Ahab I am the king of Judah so the\\nSyrians turned away, for they did not want to kill Jehoshaphat. Could\\nthey find Ahab They did not know him in his disguise but God saw\\nhim all the time Ahab could not hide himself from his eye.\\nOne of the Syrians drew a bow, and let the arrow fly. The Syrian\\ncould not tell where the arrow might go, nor whom it might shoot: but\\nGod knew he directed the arrow, and it smote Ahab to the heart in his\\nchariot, where he was sitting in disguise. The king felt that he must\\nsoon die, and he said to the man who drove the chariot, Carry me out\\nof the battle, for I am wounded. His friends followed him, and held him\\nup in his chariot, and tried to heal the wound 1 but they could not cure\\ntheir master; he died in the evening, and they carried the dead body home\\nto Samaria, and buried it.\\nWhen the battle with the Syrians was ended, Jehoshaphat went\\nhome in peace to Jerusalem. Was God pleased; with all that Jehoshaphat\\nhad done? No; a prophet came, and said to ;him, God is angry with\\nthee, because thou hast helped the ungodly, and loved the enemies of the\\nLord. But God forgave Jehoshaphat, because he repented of his sin; he\\ndid really love the Lord, and try to serve him. His ungodly friend was\\ndead now, and Jehoshaphat was in his own kingdom and he taught the\\npeople in the right way, and would not let them worship idols.\\nBut Jehoshaphat had some enemies to fight. Who were they? The", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0256.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELIJAH.\\n229\\nMoabites and the Ammonites; and they came in very great numbers.\\nJehoshaphat was afraid; but he knew what he ought to do in his danger:\\nhe sought the Lord himself, and he commanded his people to fast, and to\\nseek God too. The king, and all his people, went to the temple and\\nthere they prayed for\\nhelp. Jehoshaphat re-\\nmembered, that when\\nSolomon had dedicated\\nthat house, he had asked\\nGod to hear the prayers\\nwhich his people should\\npray when they were\\nin trouble.\\nThey were in trou-\\nble now, and they went\\nto the temple to ask for\\nGod s help. All the peo-\\nple stood before the Lord,\\nwith their wives, and\\ntheir little children and\\nthen the good king\\nprayed, and said, Lord,\\nwe know not what to do\\nbut our trust is in thee.\\nDid God attend to these\\ngood people? Yes; while\\nthe}^ were praying, God s\\nSpirit came upon a Levite\\nnamed Jahaziel, and he\\nspoke to them, and said,\\nThus saith the Lord,\\nBe not afraid. The battle jehoshaphat s prayer for his people.\\nis not yours, but God s. To-morrow you must go down to your enemies\\nbut you need not fight them you may stand still and see the salvation\\nof the Lord. Fear not, for he is with you.\\nThen Jehoshaphat bowed down to the ground in thankfulness and\\nreverence, and all the people worshipped and afterwards, they stood up,", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0257.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "230 THE STORY OF ELIJAH.\\nand sang praises to God. They sang with a loud voice, because they felt\\nso happy, and so thankful to God. They knew that he was their friend\\nand they did not fear. How pleasant it is to have God for our friend\\nwhen we are in trouble and danger\\nNext day, all the people rose very early to go to the battle but\\nbefore they went, Jehoshaphat called them and said, Believe in the Lord\\nyour God; trust in him and all will be well, and he will give you the\\nvictory. Then the good king commanded the singers to go before the\\narmy, to praise God, and to give him thanks. It was a beautiful sight.\\nFirst, the singers went, praising God in their holy psalms and hymns\\nand then followed King Jehoshaphat and all his army, not frightened and\\ntrembling, but bold and full of courage.\\nWhen they came to the place where their enemies were, what did\\nthey see The Ammonites and Moabites were all lying dead upon the\\nground there was not one there to hurt Judah. But who had killed\\nthem? Not Jehoshaphat; not his army: it was God himself who had sub-\\ndued them all. When the people began to sing their psalms of praise,\\nGod began to save them from their enemies. The Ammonites, and Moab-\\nites, and the people of Mount Seir had quarrelled and fought one against\\nanother, till all were killed and when Judah came to the battle, they\\nfound no enemies left to conquer. So they went to the dead bodies, and\\ntook off all the fine things that were upon them.\\nThere was so much spoil that Jehoshaphat and his soldiers were\\nthree days gathering it. When they had finished, they all came together,\\nand blessed and thanked God for subduing their enemies and then they\\nwent home to Jerusalem, to the temple, playing on harps and trumpets,\\nand shouting for joy. All the countries round heard about this wonderful\\nvictory and they feared God very much, for they saw how powerful he\\nwas. God gave rest and peace to Jehoshaphat, because he trusted in him\\nalone, and not in his own strength. God is now as powerful as he was\\nthen and he is still willing to hear his people s prayers, and to comfort\\nand save them in all their troubles.\\nElijah knew that the time was near when he should be taken to\\nheaven and he and his servant Blisha went from Gilgal. Blijah was\\ngoing to see some of his dear friends for the last time, and to bid them\\nfarewell. When they had gone a little way Elijah said to Elisha, Stay\\nhere now, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel. But Elisha answered,", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0258.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELIJAH.\\n231\\nNo, I will not leave thee; so they both came to Bethel. Did they talk\\nas they walked along? Yes; Elijah told his faithful servant that he was\\ngoing away from him soon he was going to heaven but Elisha must\\nstay on earth a little longer. This made Elisha love his dear master still\\nmore for he thought, I\\nshall not have him with\\nme long he will soon go\\naway from me. I will\\nnot leave him now. I\\nmust stay with him and\\nhear all his last words.\\nThere was a school\\nat Bethel for the sons of\\nthe prophets and when\\nthe young prophets saw\\nElijah and Elisha coming\\nthey ran to them, and\\nsaid to Elisha, Knowest\\nthou that the Lord will\\ntake away thy master to-\\nday? Elisha did not\\nwish tnem to speak about\\nit so he said softly, Yes,\\nI know it and walked\\non with Elijah. Then\\nElijah said, Stay here,\\nfor God has sent me to\\nJericho. But Elisha an-\\nswered, No, I cannot\\nleave thee and they\\nboth went on to Jericho.\\nThere was another jehoshaphat s victory.\\nschool at Jericho and the sons of the prophets came, and said to Elisha,\\nKnowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master to-day? Elisha\\nsaid, Yes, I know it hold your peace. Then Elijah told Elisha that\\nGod had sent him to Jordan but Elisha still kept close to his dear master,\\nand said, I cannot, I will not leave thee; so they came together to", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0259.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "232\\nTHE STORY OF ELIJAH.\\nJordan. Elijah took off his mantle, and smote the waters with it; and the\\nwaters divided, and Elijah and Elisha went over on dry ground. Then\\nElijah said to Elisha, Ask now what shall I give thee; what shall I do\\nfor thee before I go away?\\nElijah had not any worldly possessions to give; and Elisha did not\\nwant them for he knew\\nthey could not make him\\nhappy. But Elisha wanted\\nto be like his master he\\nwanted to be a holy pro-\\nphet of the Lord so he\\nsaid, Let a double por-\\ntion of thy spirit be upon\\nme. It was God s Spirit\\nthat made Elijah so holy,\\nand that taught him to\\nprophesy, and to do the\\nwonderful things we have\\nbeen reading about. Could\\nElijah give the Holy\\nSpirit to Elisha? No;\\nfor that is the gift of God\\nalone; but Elijah could\\nask God to give his Spirit\\nto Elisha.\\nElijah said, Thou\\nhast asked a hard thing\\nbut if thou see me taken\\nup, thou shalt have thy\\nwish but if not, thou\\nshalt not have it. Elisha\\nasked for a good gift may\\nTHE TRANSLATION OF ELIJAH. we ask f or i t too Yes J\\nGod promises to give his Holy Spirit to all who ask him. Not the won-\\nderful spirit of prophecy which he gave to Elijah; God does not now give\\nthat to his people but the Spirit to cleanse and renew our hearts, and to\\nmake us pure and holy.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0260.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "THE STO^Y OF ELISHA. 233\\nElijah and Elisha still went on, and talked one to the other, for\\nthey had mnch to say. Elijah was giving his last advice, and Elisha was\\nvery attentive to all his words, for he knew that he should never hear his\\nmaster speak again. But while they were talking, a bright chariot of fire\\nappeared, and horses of fire. They came from heaven to carry up Elijah\\nsafely there. Elijah was parted from Elisha in a moment. Elisha looked\\nup, and he saw his dear master in the bright chariot, going to heaven in\\njoy and triumph, and he cried, O, my father, my father! But very soon\\nElisha could see his master no more. He was gone far away, above the\\nclouds, and the blue sky, to a world which Elisha s eye could not see.\\nTHE STORY OF ELISHA.\\nONE day, a poor woman came to Elisha in great trouble. Her husband\\nwas dead. He was one of the sons of the prophets a good man,\\nbut very poor. He owed money, and died before he could pay his\\ndebts. If this good man had lived longer, he would, no doubt, have tried\\nvery hard to earn money to pay what he owed. It is not right to be in\\ndebt. The Bible says, Owe no man anything. But the poor man was\\nnow dead, and could do nothing; and when the creditor came to ask for\\nthe money, the widow had none to give him.\\nThen the creditor said, If I cannot have the debt paid, I must\\ntake away thy two sons, and sell them for slaves. The poor woman cried\\nvery much when she heard this. She had lost her husband, and now must\\nshe lose her children also She did not know how to get money to pay\\nthe debt; so she went to Elisha, and told her trouble to him. The prophet\\nwas very kind, and willing to help her. Did he help her to escape from\\nher creditor without paying the debt or did he pay the money for her\\nhimself? No; Elisha told her she must try to earn the money.\\nWhen people are in debt, they should always try to pay their cred-\\nitors. It is very dishonest to run away without paying; it is like stealing.\\nBut what could the poor widow do? Elisha asked, What hast thou in\\nthe house? The woman answered, I have only a pot of oil. Then\\nElisha told her to go to all her neighbors, and ask them to lend her\\nsome empty vessels.\\nThe woman obeyed, and soon she brought home a great many; for\\nher friends were very kind, and willing to lend the vessels. But what was", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0261.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "234\\nTHE STORY OF ELISHA.\\nshe to do with all these vessels Elisha told her. He said, Go to thine\\nhouse, and shut the doors. Then take the pot of oil, and pour out into\\nthe empty vessels. The woman and her sons did as Elisha said. Vessel\\nafter vessel they filled with oil but the oil in the pot did not grow less\\nGod multiplied it, as he\\ndid the oil and the meal\\nof the poor widow at\\nZarephath. At last, all\\nth;- vessels were full of oil.\\nThen the woman\\nwent and told Elisha, and\\nasked, What must I do\\nnow? Elisha said, Go,\\nand sell the oil, and pay\\nthe debt with the money;\\nand then, thou and thy\\nchildren may live upon\\nwhat is left. The widow\\nmust pay her debt first.\\nShe must first think about\\nher duty to her creditor,\\nand afterwards about her-\\nself and her children.\\nThe oil was soon sold and\\nthe widow had then plenty\\nof money; and she went\\ndirectly and paid her debt.\\nElisha used often\\nto go to a place named\\nShunem, where a good\\nwoman lived who was\\nEUSHA multiplying THE widow s OIL. very rich. This woman\\nloved God; and as she knew that Elisha was a prophet of God, she loved\\nand honored him too. One day, when she saw Elisha passing by, she\\nran and called him into her house, and gave him food to refresh him on\\nhis journey. Elisha went to Shunem many times afterwards, and he always\\nturned into the house where the good woman and her husband lived.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0262.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF EUSHA. 235\\nThey were glad to see him, because he was a holy man and he\\ntalked about God and heaven, and taught them many good and holy\\nthings. The kind Shunammite prepared a little room in her house for\\nElisha. She put in it for him, a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a\\ncandlestick and when Elisha wanted to be quiet, and to read and think\\nalone, he used to go into this little room.\\nWhat could Blisha do for this contented woman What did she\\nwant? Gehazi, Elisha s servant, said, She has no child; perhaps she\\nwould like a son. Then Elisha asked God to give a little son to this\\ngood Shunammite, to comfort her, and make her happy. He knew God\\nwould hear his prayer, and he called the woman, and said to her, Very\\nsoon, God will give thee a son. The woman wondered when Elisha\\ntold her this but God attended to Elisha s prayer, and soon after the\\nlittle boy was born.\\nThe mother was much pleased to have this dear child, and very\\nthankful to God who gave him to her. The little boy grew, and soon he\\ncould run about, and talk, and learn many things. One day, in harvest\\ntime, his mother sent him into the fields where his father was, to see the\\nmen reaping the corn. The little boy was much pleased to stand there by\\nhis dear father, and looked at the beautiful yellow corn. It was a very hot\\nday. The sun shone brightly, and it struck the head of the little boy, and\\nmade him feel very sick; and he cried to his father, My head, my head!\\nHe was in great pain, and could not stay longer in the fields so\\nhis kind father called a lad, and said, Carry the child to his mother.\\nle took him on her lap, and nursed him, and kissed him, and did all\\nshe could for him but he grew worse and worse and, after a few hours,\\nhe died in her arms.\\nWhen the mother saw that her little boy was dead, she carried him\\nup into Elisha s room, and laid him upon the bed. Then she told the\\nservant to saddle an ass directly, and to ride with her to Mount Carmel.\\nWhy? Because she wanted to see Elisha, and to tell her sorrows to him.\\nThis woman had great faith in God she knew he could raise her child\\nto life again if he pleased. She took a long journey; and when she came\\nnear to Mount Carmel, Elisha saw her, and sent Gehazi to meet her.\\nThen Gehazi ran to her, and asked, Is all well Is it well with\\nthy husband? Is it well with the child? The mother answered, Yes,\\nall is well. She knew all was right, because done by God. Though", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0263.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "236\\nTHE STORY OF EUSHA.\\nhe had taken away her child, yet she knew all was well. When the\\nShnnanimite came to Elisha, she ran and caught him by the feet; she was\\nso full of sorrow she could not speak.\\nGehazi wanted to push her away; but Elisha said, No, she is\\nunhappy, and we must\\nbe kind and gentle to\\nher. Elisha soon under-\\nstood what it was that\\nmade her sorry and then\\nhe told Gehazi to go\\nbefore very quickly to the\\nShunammite s house, and\\nlay his staff upon the\\nchild s face. Gehazi obey-\\ned. He went to the\\nhouse, and into the room\\nwhere the little dead boy\\nlay, and put his master s\\nstaff upon the child s face.\\nBut there was no\\nvoice; the child could not\\nsee, nor hear, nor speak\\nto Gehazi. Then Gehazi\\nwent to meet his mas-\\nter, who was following\\nslowly with the poor\\nmother, and said, The\\nchild is not awaked.\\nSo Elisha came on to the\\nhouse, and then he went\\nalone into his room, and\\nELISHA restoring THE child To LIFE. looked at the child. He\\nwas dead. The staff was upon his face, but the staff had no power to\\nmake him live aud Elisha himself had no power God alone could raise\\nthe child to life again. Elisha knew this so he shut the door, and prayed\\nto the Lord. Then he went and lay upon the child, and soon the child\\nbegan to grow warm.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0264.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELISHA. 237\\nAt last the child sneezed and then Elisha knew that he was alive,\\nand that God had heard his prayer. The little boy sneezed again seven\\ntimes, and opened his eyes. Then Elisha called the Shunainmite and\\nwhen she came in, he showed her the child alive and well, and said, Take\\nup thy son. The mother bowed herself down to the ground in thankful-\\nness, and took up the child and went out.\\nThe king of Syria had a captain over his army named Naaman.\\nNaaman was a very rich man and his master loved and honored him,\\nbecause he was brave, and fought his battles for him so Naaman had\\nmuch to make him happy but there was one thing which spoilt all his\\njoys and pleasures. What was it? Naaman was a leper. We have read\\nbefore about the leprosy, and what a dreadful disease it was. There was\\nno cure for the leprosy. No medicine, no physician, could cleanse it. God\\nalone could take it away.\\nBut Naaman knew nothing of God. He was an idolater. The king\\nof Syria and all his people were idolaters. Naaman was sick and sorrowful\\nand he had nothing to comfort him. Some time before the Syrians had\\nfought with Israel, and taken prisoner a little Israelitish girl, and brought\\nher to S} r ria. The little maid was taken to Naaman s house, and she\\nwaited upon his wife. She was a very obedient and gentle little girl. She\\ntried to please her mistress, and was always respectful and kind to her.\\nHer master and mistress were kind to her and the little maid loved them,\\nand felt grateful to them.\\nWhen she saw her master suffering so much, she was very sorry,\\nand she thought, I wish I could help my master. Then she remem-\\nbered that there were lepers in her own country. She had heard of the\\nlaws about the leprosy and she knew, too, that Israel s God had power to\\ncure it. And she recollected Elisha, and all the miracles he had done, and\\nshe thought, God gives great power to Elisha. We shall soon see how\\nGod blessed this little maid, and how useful he made her to her master.\\nOne day, when the little girl was waiting upon her mistress, she\\nsaid, I wish my master could see the prophet who is in Samaria. God\\ngives great power to that prophet. He has done many wonderful things.\\nHe would cure my master of his leprosy. Her mistress was surprised;\\nbut she sent and told Naaman what the little maid had said. Naaman\\nwas glad to hear that he could be cured; and his master, the king of\\nSyria, was glad too. He called Naaman and said, Go to the land of", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0265.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "238\\nTHE STORY OF EL1SHA.\\nIsrael; I will give thee a letter for the king there, and he will tell thee\\nhow to be cured of thy leprosy.\\nSo Naaman made ready his horses, and chariots, and servants, and\\nwent to Samaria. How glad the little maid was to see her master go!\\nShe hoped that soon he\\nwould come home again\\ncleansed and cured of his\\nleprosy. Perhaps she\\nprayed that her master\\nmight learn to worship\\nthe God of Israel, and\\ngive up his idols; for if\\nthe little girl loved God\\nherself, she must have\\nwished all her friends to\\nlove him too.\\nNaaman now made\\nall ready for his journey\\nhe took the king of\\nSyria s letter, and a pres-\\nent for the king of Israel,\\nand went to Samaria.\\nElisha soon heard that\\nNaaman was come and\\nsaid, Send him to me I\\nwill show him that there\\nis a God in Israel.\\nThe good prophet\\ndid not go out to see Naa-\\nman, and to admire and\\nhonor him but he sent\\nhis servant to him with\\nthis message: Go, and wash seven times in Jordan, and thou shalt be clean.\\nDid Naaman obey No it was a very easy command, but Naaman did not\\nlike it. Why not Because he thought Elisha had not honored him. He said,\\nWhy did not the prophet come out to me, and call upon his God, and put\\nhis hand upon me, and cure the leprosy Why must I wash in Jordan\\nNAAMAN CURED OF HIS LEPROSY.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0266.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELISHA. 239\\nCan the waters of Jordan cure me I have better rivers in Damascus, in\\nmy own country. May I not wash in them, and be clean So he turned,,\\nand went away in a rage.\\nNaaman was too proud to be cured in God s way but God would\\nnot cure Naaman in his way. It was not Jordan s waters that had power\\nto cleanse the leprosy God alone could cure it but Naaman was to obey\\nGod s command, and to submit to his will, and to have faith in him and\\nthen God promised to cure him but not while Naaman was disobedient\\nand rebellious, and proud. Naaman still suffered from his leprosy and it\\nwas his own fault because he was too proud to obey Blisha s easy command.\\nBut the servants of Naaman were sorry to see their master so angry.\\nThey wished him to be well and they knew that he could not be cured\\nif he did not obey the prophet s command. So the servants came to\\nNaaman, and spoke to him very respectfully, because he was their master,\\nbut very affectionately too, because they loved him as their friend. The\\nservants said to Naaman, My father, if the prophet had told thee to do\\na great thing, wouldst thou not have done it? But he has told thee\\nto do a very easy thing wash, and be clean wilt thou not obey this\\neasy command?\\nNaaman attended to what his servants said. He felt that they were\\nright, and that he had done wrong in so proudly going away from Elisha s\\ndoor. And Naaman was humble now. He was willing to be cured in God s\\nway, not in his own proud way so he went to the river Jordan, and dipped\\nhimself in it seven times, as Klisha had told him, and was cured.\\nThe king of Syria now came to fight against Joram, king of Israel.\\nThe king of Syria pitched his camp, hoping that he might take his enemy\\nby surprise; but Klisha sent many times to Jof am, and warned him not to\\ngo to the place where the Syrians were so Joram saved himself from his\\nenemies. This troubled the king of Syria very much and he called his\\nservants, and said, Tell me who it is that does this Who tells the king\\nof Israel where I pitch my camp The servants answered, It is Blisha\\nthe prophet. He knows all the secret things thou doest, and tells them to\\nthe king of Israel.\\nThen the king of Syria was very angry with Elisha and he made\\nready his chariots, and horses, and a great army, and sent them to Dothan,\\nwhere Elisha was, to take him prisoner. When the soldiers came to\\nDothan it was night. None saw them coming all we*-e asleep so the", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0267.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "24Q\\nTHE STORY OF EUSHA.\\narmy surrounded the city, and waited till morning. Elisha s servant rose\\nvery early that morning, and went out; and he saw the city surrounded\\nwith horses, and chariots, and soldiers, all enemies of the good prophet.\\nThe servant was very much frightened; and he cried, and said,\\nAlas, my master! what\\nshall we do Was Eli-\\nsha frightened No he\\nknew that God had more\\npower than all his ene-\\nmies, and trusted in God\\nto take care of him in\\nthis danger and then he\\nfelt safe and happy. And\\nthen Elisha spoke to his\\nservant, and said to him,\\nFear not; there are more\\nwith us than with our\\nenemies for Elisha saw\\nwhat the servant could\\nnot see a wonderful and\\nbeautiful sight which com-\\nforted him, and made\\nhim feel safe.\\nThen Elisha prayed\\nthat the servant might\\nhe able to see this won-\\nderful sight too and God\\nheard Elisha s prayer,\\nand opened the young\\nman s eyes and then he\\nsaw that the mountain\\nTHE SYRIANS SMITTEN WITH BLINDNESS. was u Q f h orses an d\\nchariots of fire round about Elisha. These chariots and horses were sent\\nto protect Elisha from his enemies. Who sent them God himself. His\\nholy angels in heaven are always ready to help and protect his people on\\nearth. Elisha s enemies could not see this heavenly host; but God gave\\nElisha and his servant power to see them.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0268.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "THK bl ORY OF ELISHA. 241\\nBut what did Elisha do when his enemies came to take him prisoner?\\nAgain he asked help of God he asked him to smite his enemies with\\nblindness and God did so. The Syrians became blind and helpless and\\nthen they had no power to hurt Elisha. So Elisha came to them and\\nsaid, Follow me, and I will bring you to the man you seek. Then he\\nled them into Samaria.\\nThe poor blind men did not know where they were going but when\\nthey were come to Samaria, Elisha asked God to open their eyes again\\nmd God gave sight to the S\\\\ 7 rians. What did they see They saw\\nthemselves surrounded by their enemies. The king of Israel was there,\\nand all his army. Elisha was close to them but they were afraid to take\\nhim now. Then the king said to Elisha, Shall I smite them Shall I\\nsmite them But Elisha did not want revenge he had used his power\\nonly to protect himself from his enemies and he did not wish to punish\\nthem any more. He was willing to forgive all their unkindness to him.\\nSo he said to the king of Israel, No, we must not kill them. God\\ngave them into my power that I might save myself; but I do not wish to\\nhurt them. Let us give them bread to eat, and water to drink, and send\\nthem home to their master. Then Elisha made a great feast for the\\nSyrians and when they had finished eating and drinking, he let them go\\nback in peace to the king of Syria.\\nThe king of Israel soon followed the messenger to Elisha s house;\\nbut he did not come now to hurt the prophet. Joram was in despair, for\\nhe thought that he and his people must soon all perish with hunger. But\\nGod can send help in the greatest troubles, and he was now going to send\\nhelp to Israel. So Elisha, at God s command, said to the king, Hear\\nwhat God says To-morrow flour and barley shall be sold in plenty in\\nSamaria. This was good news for Joram and his people, but they did\\nnot all believe what Elisha said.\\nThere was a lord with the king, a nobleman of Israel, and the king\\nleaned upon his arm as he stood by Elisha. This lord did not- believe\\nthat there should be plenty of food in Samaria next day. He thought\\nsuch a thing was too wonderful even for God to do and he answered\\nElisha very disrespectfully, and said, No, this cannot be I will not\\nbelieve it he forgot that everything is possible with God.\\nThen Elisha turned to the unbelieving nobleman, and said, Thou\\nslialt see the food to-morrow with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eat of it.\\n16", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0269.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "242\\nTHE STORY OF EUSHA.\\nThe nobleman did not care for what Klisha said but God remembered his\\nsin, and soon punished him for it. And God remembered also his promise\\nto give plenty of food next day to the poor hungry people in Samaria.\\nThat night he put fear into the hearts of the Syrians, so that they\\nthought they heard a\\nnoise of horses, and char-\\niots, and a great army.\\nThere was nothing to\\nmake them afraid; all\\nwas still but God could\\nfill them with fear, when\\nno earthly enemy was\\nnear to hurt them.\\nSo they said one\\nto another, The king of\\nIsrael is coming against\\nus, and all his soldiers,\\nand the king of Egypt\\nis coming too, and many\\nmore kings, and very\\ngreat armies with them\\nwhat shall we do? Then\\nthey all arose, and left\\ntheir tents, and their\\nhorses, and their asses,\\nand gold and silver, and\\ngarments, and food; and\\nescaped for their lives.\\nBut where was the\\nunbelieving lord? The\\nking commanded him to\\nTHE UNBELIEVER TRODDEN TO DEATH. stand at the gate and keep\\nit. Multitudes of people passed by, carrying food in plenty and this lord\\nsaw that Elisha had spoken truth. But the great plenty in Samaria did\\nno good to that unbelieving nobleman. He did not live to enjoy it.\\nThe crowds of people pressed upon him, and threw him down; and he\\nfell, and was trodden under foot, and died, as Elisha had said.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0270.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELISHA.\\n243\\nElisha called one of the sons of the prophets, and gave him a\\nmessage from God. Elisha said to the young man, Go now quickly to\\nRamoth-Gilead. Take a box of oil in thine hand and when thou comest\\nto Ramoth-Gilead, seek there for a man named Jehu, and call him to thee,\\nand take him into a room\\nalone, and pour the oil\\nupon his head, and make\\nhim king over Israel.\\nThen open the door and\\nflee. The young pro-\\nphet obeyed Elisha at\\nonce. He did not wait\\nto ask why, nor murmur\\nat the command. The\\nsons of the prophets were\\ntaught obedience.\\nThe young pro-\\nphet went to Ramoth-\\nGilead, and soon found\\nJehu. Jehu was a cap-\\ntain of the army, and\\nhe was sitting with the\\nother captains when the\\nprophet came to him.\\nJehu was not thinking\\nabout being king; he\\ndid not know how God\\nwas now going to honor\\nhim but the prophet\\ncalled to Jehu, and said,\\nI have a message for\\nthee, O captain. So JEHU anointed king of israee.\\nJehu arose, and went into another room with the prophet alone. Then\\nthe young man took out the box of oil, and poured it upon Jehu s head,\\nand said, Thus saith the Lord, I anoint thee king of Israel. Thou shalt\\nsmite all the family of Ahab, and punish them. All the family of Ahab\\nshall perish, and the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel in Jezreel.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0271.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "244 THE STORY OF EUSHA.\\nThen the prophet opened the door, and fled. Jehu wondered,\\nperhaps, to hear all this but he went quickly back again to his friends,\\nand sat down. They all wanted to know who the young man was who\\nhad called Jehu and one asked, Why did that mad fellow come to\\nthee Jehu answered, Do not you know They said, No, we know\\nnothing; tell us why he came. Then Jehu said, He anointed me king\\nover Israel in God s name. Did the captains wonder very much?\\nYes but they were all willing to have Jehu for their king for God\\nmade them willing. They all arose, and took their garments, and put them\\nunder Jehu, upon the top of the stairs; and they blew the trumpets, and\\nshouted, Jehu is king.\\nJehu told the captains to keep the secret from the people in Jezreel\\nand then he rode in his chariot, and went to Jezreel, where Joram and\\nAhaziah were still staying. The watchman upon the tower in Jezreel saw\\nJehu coming, but he did not know at first who it was so he went and\\ntold the king; and Joram sent a horseman to meet the chariot. When\\nthe horseman came up to Jehu, he said, The king asks, Is it peace?\\nBut Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace Then another\\nmessenger came to ask, Is it peace? But Jehu answered as before.\\nThe watchman on the tower looked very attentively, and said to Joram,\\nThe messengers who went to meet the chariot, do not return and the\\nman in the chariot drives like Jehu, for he is driving very furiously.\\nWhen Joram heard this, he commanded his servants to make his\\nchariots ready, and he and Ahaziah rode to meet Jehu. When they came\\nnear, Joram cried, Is it peace But Jehu answered, What peace can\\nthere be while thy wicked mother Jezebel is living Joram began to be\\nfrightened, and cried out to his friend Ahaziah. But Ahaziah could not\\nhelp Joram now. The time was come when both these wicked kings must\\nbe punished for their sins, and none could save them. Jehu drew his bow\\nwith all his strength, and shot an arrow into Joram s heart and the king\\nfell down dead in his chariot.\\nAhaziah was now made king over Judah, and soon afterward died.\\nWhen Athaliah, the wicked mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was\\ndead, she destroyed all the king s sons, and made herself queen. Ahaziah s\\nyoungest son was then a babe; he could not take care of himself, but God\\ntook care of him and this little child was saved when all his brothers\\nwere killed. His aunt, Jehoshabeath, hid him and his nurse from wicked", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0272.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELISHA. 245\\nAthaliah, and brought him home, and kept him in safety in God s house\\nfor six years.\\nThe babe s name was Joash. How sad it was for little Joash to live\\nin a time of such trouble and danger He had no father, no mother, no\\nbrother, to take care of him. But God was the friend of Joash, and he\\ncould make Jehoshabeath kinder to him than his own mother. The hus-\\nband of this good aunt was named Jehoiada he was a priest of the Lor.d.\\nJehoiada lived in the temple, and little Joash and Jehoshabeath lived there too.\\nWhen Joash was seven years old. Jehoiada thought the right time\\nwas come to make him king. Then he assembled all the people in the\\ntemple, and there they made a covenant together. The good priest spoke\\nto them, and said, Joash, the king s son, shall reign. God has promised\\nthat David 1 s sons shall sit upon the throne of Judah Joash has a right\\nto the throne, and not Athaliah, who has had possession of the country so\\nlong. Let us trust in God, and he will help us to make Joash king.\\nDivide yourselves now into three companies. Some must stand at the\\ndoors, and some at the king s house, and some at the gate. Let the\\npriests and Levites come into the house of God, and let the people stand\\nround to keep watch without.\\nSo Jehoiada armed the captains and the people, and placed them all\\nround the temple, to guard the young king. Then they brought Joash\\ninto the house of the Lord, and put the crown upon his head and.\\nJehoiada anointed him, and said, God save the king and all the people\\nshouted for joy, and cried again, Joash is king. Athaliah heard the\\nnoise of the people running, and shouting, and rejoicing, and wondered,\\nwhy it was she knew nothing about Joash she thought he had perished,\\nwith his brothers, many years before.\\nSo Athaliah ran in haste to the house of God and there she save\\nJoash standing, as king, by a pillar, and all the princes and people blowing\\nthe trumpets, and shouting, and rejoicing, and singing praises. Then\\nAthaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, treason But Athaliah\\nhad no friends to help her now. Jehoiada called the captains and they\\nran to Athaliah and took her out of the house of God, and put her to\\ndeath. She deserved to die, for she had murdered many of her son s\\nfaniify, to make herself queen and she was justly punished for her wick-\\nedness, and put to death herself.\\nJoash was now king, and could reign in peace. What care God", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0273.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "246\\nTHE STORY OF EUSHa.\\nhad taken of this little child, all the six years he had been hidden from\\nhis cruel grandmother! Why did God care so much for Joash? Because\\nGod remembered his promise to David. God loved David, and he loved\\nDavid s children after him, and promised to give them the kingdom of\\nJudah. And God loved\\nJudah, and would not let\\nhis people suffer any\\nlonger under cruel Atha-\\nliah. He waited some\\nyears, but all those years\\nhe was watching over\\nJoash, and over his people\\nin Judah too and when\\nthe right and best time\\ncame, he gave wisdom, and\\nstrength, and courage,\\nto Jehoiada, that he might\\nmake Joash king, and slay\\nwicked Athaliah. How\\nwise and good God is\\nWe may trust all to him.\\nOurselves, and our friends,\\nand our country all are\\nin his keeping and if we\\nlove him, and trust in him,\\nas Jehoiada did, we may\\nknow that all will be well,\\nand not fear any dan-\\ngers, nor difficulties, nor\\ntroubles.\\nJoash was a little\\nathaliah put To death. boy when he began to\\nreign only seven years old. Kings have many duties to perform which\\nare very difficult and very troublesome and they need great wisdom to per-\\nform these duties rightly. The house of God had been sadly broken up\\nby the wicked queen Athaliah and now Joash wished very much to repair\\nit. But Joash knew this would cost much money, more than he could", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0274.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELISHA.\\n247\\ngive so lie called the Levites and told them to go all through the coun-\\ntry, and ask the people to give money to help to build up God s house.\\nBut the Levites were not so anxious about this holy work as Joash\\nwas. They were very slow, and took a long time to collect the money.\\nThis was not right. When\\nwe have work to do, good\\nwork, work in God s ser-\\nvice, we should do it\\ndirectly, and as quickly\\nas we can. Whatsoever\\nthine hand findeth to do,\\ndo it with thy might for\\nthere is no work, nor de-\\nvice, nor knowledge, nor\\nwisdom, in the grave\\nwhither thou goest.\\nJoash was displeased\\nto see his people so slow.\\nHe called Jehoiada and\\nsaid, Wh} are the Le-\\nvites so long in collecting\\nmoney for God s house?\\nTell the people to bring\\ntheir monej^ to the tem-\\nple and we will put a box\\nby the door of the temple,\\nand the money shall be\\nthrown in there. So Je-\\nhoiada took a box, and made\\na hole in the top of it, and\\nput it by the door of the\\nhouse of the Lord and all joash collecting money for the temple.\\nthe people were told to bring their money, and to cast it into this box. The\\npeople were very glad to do this; they did not want to keep their riches for\\nthemselves, but were willing and joyful to give much of it to God. The box\\nwas soon full and then the Levites opened it, and counted the money, and\\nemptied the box, and put it in its place again. The money was given to the", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0275.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "248\\nTHE STORY OF EUSHA.\\ncarpenters, and masons, and workmen, who repaired the house of God, to pay\\nthem for their work. When all was finished, the Levites brought the rest\\nof the money to the king and Jehoiada. Then Joash commanded that all\\nthis gold and silver should be made into holy vessels for the service of\\nGod because the money\\nall belonged to God. The\\ntemple was now repaired\\nand the people went to it\\nevery day, to offer their\\nsacrifices, as God com-\\nmanded.\\nLet us learn to be\\nas generous in giving our\\nmoney in God s service as\\nthe good people of Judah\\nwere. We have boxes now\\nto hold money for holy\\npurposes to send out\\nmissionaries to heathen\\nlands and to buy Bibles\\nand Testaments and to\\nbuild churches and schools\\nwhere idolaters may learn\\nabout Jesus. The money\\nin these boxes is all for\\nthe service of God and if\\nwe love God, we shall be\\nas glad to contribute as\\nthe people of Judah were.\\nRich people would throw\\nin a great deal, if they\\nREPAIRING THE TEMPLE. tm l y i oved G od and poor\\npeople would try to throw in a little. All would give something and they\\nwould give it joyfully for God does not like unwilling offerings. God\\nloveth a cheerful giver.\\nWas Elisha still alive? Yes; but he was now an old man, and\\nvery near death. Many years before, his dear master had been taken away", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0276.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELISHA. 249\\nfrom him and now Elisha was soon going to join him again, in that\\nhappy world where friends part no more forever. King Jehoash went to\\nsee Elisha when he was ill. Jehoash was not a good man but he loved\\nand honored Blisha, and this was right. The king knew how useful\\nElisha had been to his country and he was very sorry to lose him, and.\\nwept over him, and cried, Oh my father, my father! Israel had suffered\\nmuch from the Syrians and Jehoash feared that now he should have no\\nkind friend to help and comfort him. But Blisha wished to teach the king;\\nthat God could still protect Israel, and fight their enemies for them.\\nThe prophet taught Jehoash this by signs. He gave the king a.\\nbow and arrows, and put his hands upon the king s hands, and told Jehoash\\nto open the window eastward. Jehoash opened it, and the prophet said,.\\nShoot. Jehoash shot the arrow out of the window, as Elisha told him\\nand then the prophet explained to Jehoash what the sign meant. He said,.\\nThis is the arrow of the Lord s deliverance from Syria. Thus shalt thou\\nsmite the S3 r rians and destroy them.\\nThen Elisha told the king to take the arrows again and smite upon\\nthe ground. Jehoash did so but he smote only three times upon the\\nground, and then stayed, without waiting for Elisha s command. This\\nmade the prophet angry. He saw that Jehoash had no faith in God, no\\ntrust in him, no care to obey his commands and he said to the king,\\nThou oughtest to have smitten many times then Syria should have been\\nquite destroyed but now thou shalt smite Syria only three times.\\nThe Syrians had long troubled Israel. Hazael was king of Syria,.\\nand he was cruel to the Israelites, as Elisha had prophesied that he would\\nbe. But after Hazael was dead, Jehoash conquered the Syrians three times,\\nand got possession agaiu of the cities they had taken. Yet Jehoash smote\\nthe Syrians only three times. Why? Because he was so impatient, and\\nhad so little faith, when Elisha, at God s command, told him to smite\\nupon the ground.\\nGood Elisha died, and was buried. All his troubles and sorrows were\\nended, and his happy soul went to join his dear master in heaven. Soon\\nafter Elisha s death, the Moabites came to invade the land. One day, as\\nsome Israelites were burying a dead man, they looked up, and saw the\\nMoabites coming. The friends of the dead man took up the body in\\nhaste, and threw it into Elisha s tomb for they were so much afraid that\\nthey could not stay to bury it. But a wonderful thing happened when", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0277.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "250\\nTHE STORY OF ELISHA.\\nthe dead man was put down into the tomb. As soon as the body touched\\nthe bones of Elisha it revived and the man lived again, and stood upon\\nhis feet. There was no power in Elisha s bones to revive the man. It\\nwas God who did the miracle and he showed the people by it how much\\nhe loved his faithful ser-\\nvant, and honored him\\nafter his death.\\nWhen Jehu died,\\nhis son Jehoahaz reigned\\nover Israel. Jehu loved\\nthe world and God gave\\nhim, and his sons after\\nhim, worldly honors and\\nwwldly possessions. But\\nJehu and his children did\\nnot care for heavenly\\nthings and, therefore,\\nthey had no possessions\\nin that world which will\\nlast forever.\\nJoash was still king\\nof Judah but his kind\\nfriend, the good priest\\nJehoiada, was dead. He\\nlived to be a very old\\nman, 130 years old. He\\nhad served God many\\nyears, and done much\\ngood in Israel, and all the\\npeople loved and honored\\nhim. Jehoiada s son, Zech-\\nelisha s bones restoring a man to life. ariah, was still living\\nand he was grieved to see the king and his people doing so wickedly; and\\nGod was angry; and he sent holy prophets, to tell them so; but the\\npeople would not attend.\\nAt last Zechariah himself went to speak to the king and the people.\\nHe was a good man God s Spirit was upon him, and he felt that lie", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0278.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELISHA.\\n251\\nought to be bold, and to speak the truth to his king. So Zechariah went\\nto Joash, and spoke very solemnly to him and to the people. Zechariah\\nsaid, Why do you disobey God s holy commands You cannot prosper\\nnow. When you were obedient to God, you had his blessing, but now\\nyou have forsaken him, T\\nand he has forsaken you.\\nWas Joash willing\\nto attend to Zechariah\\nDid he repent, and turn\\nto God, and tell his peo-\\nple to throw away their\\nfoolish idols No Joash\\nhad become hardened in\\nsin he no longer cared\\nfor God, nor for Jehoiada,\\nnor for Zechariah. He\\nwas angry with that bold\\nand faithful man, and\\nencouraged the people to\\nconspire against him and\\nthe good priest was slain\\nin the temple of the Lord.\\nZechariah did not try to\\ndefend himself, when he\\nsaw his murderers coming\\nto kill him. He sub-\\nmitted quietly to the cruel\\ncommand of Joash but\\nas he lay wounded and\\ndying, he said, God sees,\\nand he will punish and\\nthen he closed his eyes, the murder of zechariah.\\nand died. And God did see this wicked, ungrateful act and he did punish\\nJoash for it. The Syrians came, and destroyed many of the princes of\\nJudah, and took away their riches.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0279.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "THE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS.\\nUZZIAH was now king of Judah. God gave him strength to subdue\\nthe Philistines, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites and every-\\nthing that Uzziah did went on well. Why was this Because\\nthe young king was seeking God in all he did. When Uzziah began\\nanything new, he first asked God s help and blessing and God heard his\\nprayer, and directed him aright. Try, like Uzziah, to seek the Lord.\\nWherever you go, whatever you do, first ask God s blessing and then all\\nwill go on well, and you will be happy and prosperous too. If you look\\nto God for help, he will teach and guide you. In all thy ways acknow-\\nledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.\\nUzziah did many things in his kingdom. He built towers, and\\ndigged wells. He had very much cattle and a large army of soldiers to\\nfight his enemies, and shields, and swords, and spears, and bows. He\\nmade engines for shooting arrows and great stones and all the people who\\nlived near wondered when they heard of his strength, and riches, and\\npower. All this was very pleasant to Uzziah but his prosperity did him\\nno real good it led him away from God. Like Solomon, he grew forgetful\\nof God when he grew rich. He became proud of himself, and of his\\npower, and his greatness not remembering that all he had, God gave him.\\nUzziah, in his pride, thought he might do as he pleased and he\\nwent boldly into the temple of the Lord, to burn incense there. This was\\nvery wrong. The king was not the right person to burn incense it was\\nthe business of the priests alone. When the priests saw Uzziah going into\\nthe holy place, they followed him, and said, It is not right for thee,\\nUzziah, to burn incense. God has told the priests that they alone may\\nburn incense; go out of this holy place; do not disobey the command of God.\\nUzziah was angry with the priests, and would not .attend to them:\\nbut God himself punished him for his sin. How did God punish Uzziah\\nHe smote him with leprosy while he was in the temple. The priests\\nlooked at the king while he was standing by the altar, and saw this\\ndreadful leprosy rising in his forehead and then they quickly took him\\nout of the temple for no leper might stay in that holy place. Uzziah\\nhimself was in haste to go out, when he felt how God had smitten and\\ndishonored him for his sin.\\n252", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0280.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "THE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS.\\n2.13\\nHe lived in a house alone, and was not allowed to come into the\\nholy temple. Uzziah had been very proud now God humbled him, and\\nmade him feel how weak and helpless he was. He could not judge his\\npeople himself, nor attend to his kingdom; his son Jotham did all for him;\\nand when Uzziah died,\\nJotham was made king.\\nLearn what a sin pride\\nis. Solomon sa} T s, Pride\\ngoeth before destruction,\\nand a haughty spirit\\nbefore a fall.\\nJotham, king of\\nJudah, was a very good\\nking. He did right but\\nhis people went on in\\ntheir own wicked ways,\\nand did not wish to be\\nlike him. This must\\nhave troubled Jotham\\nvery much but he\\ntrusted in God, and\\nsought comfort in him,\\nand God strengthened\\nand blessed him. Jotham\\nbuilt a great many cities\\nin the mountains of\\nJudah, and towers and\\ncastles in the forests.\\nThen he fought with\\nthe Ammonites and con-\\nquered them and Jo-\\ntham was prospered in uzziah smitten with leprosy.\\nall that he did, because he prepared his way before the Lord his God.\\nWe may learn something from the history of this good king. We\\nhave not kingdoms to rule, nor cities to build, nor battles to fight, as he\\nhad but we all have some work, some business to do and when we begin\\nthis work, we ought, like Jotham, to ask God s blessing. We should pray", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0281.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "254 THE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS.\\nGod to keep us from beginning anything wrong, and to help us in doing\\nwhat is right. Then, all we do shall prosper we shall be active and busy,\\nbut we shall remember that we are the servants of God, and try to please\\nhim in all things. Not slothful in business fervent in spirit serv-\\ning the Lord.\\nAfter Jotham s death, Ahaz, his son, was made king of Judah. Ahaz\\nwas not like his father; he was a very wicked man. Ahaz worshipped\\nimages, and the gods of the heathen nations, and sacrificed to them, and\\nburned his children in the fire before these idols. God, for this dreadful\\nwickedness, soon punished him. The king of Syria came and fought\\nagainst Ahaz, and took many of the people prisoners, and carried them\\naway to Damascus. And some were slain by Pekah, king of Israel, and\\nothers were taken captive to Samaria.\\nBut there was then in Samaria a good prophet, named Oded, and\\nwhen he saw all these poor people from Judah brought into the city, he\\nfelt sad. Why Because Judah was a part of God s people as well as\\nIsrael. Israel and Judah were brethren they ought to have been kind\\none to the other friends, not enemies. And though God was angry with\\nJudah, Oded knew that he loved his people still, and would be angry with\\nIsrael for taking them prisoners.\\nSo Oded went boldly to the army of Israel, and said, God has\\ngiven the children of Judah into your power, because they have sinned\\nagainst him. You have slain some of them and taken many more, and\\nbrought them as prisoners here. And now you are going to make slaves\\nof them you show them no love, no pity. Why are you so cruel to these\\npoor people They are your brethren and though they have sinned,\\nremember that you have sinned too. Now, attend to me, and send home\\nthese prisoners, whom you have taken captive, and do not make God\\nangry with you.\\nSome of the nobles of Israel attended to the good prophet, and said\\nto the soldiers, You shall not bring the prisoners here. We have sinned\\nvery much already do not let us sin still more. So the soldiers left the\\nprisoners, and all the riches they had taken, before the princes and the\\npeople. Many of these prisoners were without clothes and some were very\\nweak and sickly and all were hungry and wanted food. But the kind\\nprinces gave these poor people clothes, and shoes, and food, and water.\\nThen the princes took those who were weak and sickly, and put", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0282.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "THE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS.\\n255\\nthem upon asses, and gave them all they wanted for their journey, and\\nsent them away. Where were they going? Home to Judah, to their own\\ncountry. The princes carried all the prisoners as far as Jericho, and then\\nreturned to Samaria.\\nHezekiah was now king of Judah. He was the son of Ahaz, but he\\nwas not like his father;\\nHezekiah was a holy man.\\nWhen he began to reign,\\nthe kingdom of Judah was\\nin a sad state. The holy\\ntemple of God was shut\\nup idol altars were in\\nall the high places in-\\ncense was burnt to new\\ngods, and sacrifices offered\\nto them, and not to the\\nLord, the true God. Ahaz\\nhad done this but Heze-\\nkiah began to undo it all\\ndirectly, for he knew it\\nwas his duty, as king,\\nto teach and command\\nthe people to serve God.\\nSo first, Hezekiah\\ncalled together the priests\\nand the Levites, because\\nit was their business to\\ntake care of God s tem-\\nple and service, and of\\nthe holy things. He spoke\\nvery solemnly to the priests\\nand Levites, and yet very\\naffectionately, like a kind\\nfather. Rulers and\\nto those they are set over. They must be strict, but they may be gentle\\nand loving too. It is best to do all things in love.\\nHezekiah said, Hear what I am going to tell you. Our fathers\\nODED INTERCEDING FOR THE CAPTIVES,\\ngovernors ought always to be kind and affectionate", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0283.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2256\\nTHE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS.\\nforsook God, and worshipped idols, and shut up the holy temples, and\\nburnt no incense, and offered no sacrifices to God. All this has made\\nhim angry, and he has sent trouble and sorrow upon Judah, to punish his\\npeople for their sin. Now let us return to God, and serve him 1 with all\\nour hearts. You are the\\npriests of the Lord. He\\nhas chosen you to offer\\nsacrifices to him, and to\\nburn incense. Now, then,\\narise and serve him. Put\\naway these idols, and let\\nus make a covenant with\\nour God, and then we\\nshall have his blessing,\\nand his anger will be\\nturned away.\\nThe priests and\\nLevites attended to what\\ntheir good king said, and\\nwillingly obeyed him.\\nThey went directly to the\\nhouse of God, and cleansed\\nit, and took away all the\\nidolatrous things, and de-\\nstroyed them. Among\\nthese things was the\\nbrazen serpent which\\nMoses had made in the\\nwilderness. The people\\nhonored this serpent, and\\nburned incense to it.\\nidols DESTROYED by hezekiah. There are people now\\nin many countries as foolish as the people of Judah. The ignorant\\nheathen give to dumb idols honor and worship which belong only to God.\\nThus they disobey the commandment which says, Thou shalt not\\nmake any graven images thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship\\nthem. Hezekiah commanded the brazen serpent to be taken away; and", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0284.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "THE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS. 257\\nlie broke it in pieces, to show the people it was only a piece of brass\\nwithout power to help them.\\nThen the Levites brought back the holy vessels which Ahaz had\\ntaken away, and put them in the temple again. All was now ready; the\\ntemple was cleansed, the altars, and the tables, and the she w-b read, and\\nthe holy things, were in their right places. Then Hezekiah rose very\\nearly in the morning, and called the rulers of the city, and went up to\\nthe house of the Lord. Why? Because they were going to offer sacrifices\\nthere to confess their sins, and to pray for forgiveness. They brought\\nbullocks, and rams, and lambs, and goats, for a sin-offering for the king-\\ndom and Hezekiah commanded the priests to offer all these animals on\\nthe altar of the Lord. Then the priests killed the bullocks and the lambs,\\nand the rams, and sprinkled the blood upon the altar. Afterwards, they\\nbrought the goats, and laid their hands upon them, confessing the people s\\nsin, and killed them, to make atonement for all Israel.\\nWe have been reading about Hezekiah s happiness, now we must\\nread about his troubles. All people in this world must have trouble some-\\ntimes God s people, and wicked people too. But when God sends trouble\\nto his people, he sends it in love. He sends it to teach them to trust in\\nhim more, and to love him more and he can comfort them in all their\\nsorrows, and deliver them if he please.\\nBut what was Hezekiah s trouble? There was a king of Assyria,\\nnamed Sennacherib. He was a very wicked man, and a very ambitious\\nking, and he did not like Hezekiah to enjoy his kingdom in peace. Sen-\\nnacherib wished to take possession of Judah, and to reign over it himself.\\nSo he made ready a large army, and sent it against Jerusalem, with Rab-\\nshakeh his captain. When Hezekiah saw the army coming, he sent some\\nof his great men out to speak to Rabshakeh, and ask him why he was come.\\nThen Rabshakeh told them his master s message, and a very wicked\\nmessage it was. Thus saith the great king of Assyria I am come to\\nthis land to destroy it. Who can deliver you from my hand? Can the\\niing of Egypt Do you trust in him He has no power to help you.\\nDoes your king Hezekiah tell you to trust in God? Does he say, the\\nLord will deliver you Do not attend to Hezekiah. God cannot deliver\\nyou. I have fought against many nations, and conquered them. Their\\ngods could not save them and how can your God save you Attend to\\nme; serve me, and do not hearken to Hezekiah.\\n17", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0285.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "258 THE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS.\\nThe men of Judali heard Sennacherib s message, but they made no\\nanswer for Hezekiah had told them not to give an answer to Rabshakeh\\nbut to come back directly. When Hezekiah heard the message, he was\\nvery much troubled. He rent his clothes, and covered himself with sack-\\ncloth, as signs of his great sorrow.\\nBut Hezekiah knew where to find help. Where did he go? Did he\\nask the king of Egypt to help him No Hezekiah could not trust in\\nhim. Did he go to his soldiers, and make them ready for battle No\\nHezekiah knew that they alone could have no power against the great\\nAssyrian army. Where did he go? He went into the house of the Lord,\\nand told all his troubles to God. Hezekiah knew that God was stronger\\nthan Sennacherib, and that he was his friend, and could hear his prayer,\\nand deliver him from his enemies.\\nWhen Hezekiah had prayed to God, he sent to the good prophet\\nIsaiah, to ask for advice from him. Hezekiah s messengers came to Isaiah\\ncovered with sackcloth, and full of sorrow. They said, Thus saith Heze-\\nkiah, This is a day of trouble and sorrow. The king of Assyria has sent\\nRabshakeh to speak blasphemy against God. But it may be, the Lord\\nwill hear the wicked words of Rabshakeh, and deliver his people and we\\nask thy prayer for those who are left. God had told Isaiah what to say\\nto Hezekiah he had a message of comfort for these poor, sorrowful people.\\nIsaiah said, Tell your master not to fear the words of Rabshakeh.\\nGod himself will deliver you from this great army. The king of Assyria\\nshall not hurt Jerusalem he shall not shoot an arrow there, nor come\\nagainst it with shields. God will defend the city, and smite the Assyrian\\narmy, and make their king return to their own land and there he shall\\nfall by the sword.\\nThen the messengers returned, and told Hezekiah what Isaiah had\\nsaid and Hezekiah believed in God, and trusted all to him, and was com-\\nforted. And was the army of Assyria destroyed Yes but not by Heze-\\nkiah, nor by his soldiers, nor his people. They all waited quietly that\\nnight for God to deliver them.\\nAnd, in the night, God sent out his destroying angel to the army\\nof the Assyrians. These wicked men were all asleep in their camp, little\\nthinking of the punishment that was coming. They did not care for God\\nthey laughed at his power, and at his people, and thought they were safe,\\nand feared nothing. But while they were lying asleep in their camp, the", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0286.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "THE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS.\\n259\\ndestroying angel came down from heaven, and went from tent to tent, and\\nsmote all the soldiers of that large army one hundred and eighty-five\\nthousand were slain, without time to repent and ask for pardon\\nThe people of Judah arose in the morning, and looked towards their\\nenemies camp. What did\\nthey see No cruel ene j\\nmies were there now no\\nwicked Rabshakeh speak-\\ning blasphemy against\\nGod. All was quiet. The\\nbodies of the Assyrians\\nwere lying dead upon the\\nground their souls were\\ngone to appear before the\\ngreat God whom they had\\ndespised and blasphemed.\\nSennacherib himself re-\\nturned to his own coun-\\ntry, but he did not live\\nthere long. Soon after,\\nwhen he was worshipping\\nin the temple of his\\nidol god, his sons rushed\\nin, and smote him, and\\nkilled him.\\nWhat a sad end of\\nSennacherib and all his\\narmy How dreadful it\\nis to despise God, and\\nrebel against him He\\nwill, sooner or later,\\npunish all his enemies. AN ANGEL DESTROYS SENNACHERIB S HOST.\\nThey cannot always resist his power and rush on headlong in their evil ways.\\nSoon after God had delivered Hezekiah from the Assyrian army, the\\ngood king became very, very ill so ill that he thought he must soon die.\\nThe kind prophet Isaiah came to him, and said, Set thine house in\\norder, for thou shalt die and not live. This was a solemn message.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0287.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "260 THE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS.\\nHezekiah felt this: and when Isaiah told him to prepare for death, he\\nturned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord.\\nHezekiah was ready to die. He had long loved and served God;\\nhis sins had been washed away, and his heart had been made new. Was\\nhe afraid to die No but when he thought that death was so near, he\\nfelt that he wanted strength and comfort, and he knew who alone could\\ngive them. When he had been in trouble and difficulty before, he had\\nsought God in his house. But Hezekiah could not go there now; he\\nthought he should never go to God s temple again.\\nBut God was with Hezekiah still, and could hear his prayers on a\\nsick bed, and comfort him there as he had done in the temple. Hezekiah\\nwept very much when he prayed. Was he sorry to die He could not\\nbe sorry to leave a wicked world, and go to his home in heaven but,\\nperhaps, he was sorry when he remembered his kingdom, and the people\\nwhom he loved so much, to think that, after his death, they might have a\\nking who would not teach them rightly, and that they might fall into sin\\nand idolatry again.\\nHezekiah had been very useful. He had done much good in Judah^\\nand he wanted to do more. God s people should be willing to go, and\\ntheir friends willing to part with them, whenever this is God s will. Heze-\\nkiah wept, but he did not murmur. He was ready to submit to God, and\\nleft all to him.\\nAnd did Hezekiah die? No; it pleased God to spare his life. God\\nhad more work for him to do, and he told him by the prophet Isaiah, that\\nhe would add to his life fifteen years. This message surprised the king\\nvery much he did not disbelieve God s promise, but he wanted to be still\\nmore assured of it; so he asked Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the\\nLord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord again\\nIsaiah answered, God will give the sign upon yonder sun-dial.\\nShall the shadow there go forward ten degrees, or shall it go back ten\\ndegrees Hezekiah said, Let the shadow go back ten degrees. Then\\nIsaiah cried to the Lord, and asked him to give this sign to king Heze-\\nkiah. And God did as he asked. The king looked at the sun-dial, and\\nhe saw the shadow on it moving but the shadow did not move forward\\nas usual. It went back ten degrees, and then it stopped upon a degree it\\nhad passed long before.\\nWhy was this How can we understand it We cannot. It was", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0288.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "THE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS.\\n261\\na miracle which God alone could do and he was pleased to do it now, to\\nstrengthen the faith of Hezekiah, and to convince him that the God who\\ncould bring back the shadow on the dial, could bring Hezekiah back also\\nto life and health again.\\nHezekiah was now well, and the first thing he did after his\\nrecovery was to go to the\\nhouse of the Lord. There\\nhe thanked his merciful\\nGod who had so wonder-\\nfully healed him, and gave\\nhimself up again to his\\nservice. When we are\\nraised from illness this\\nis what we should do.\\nFirst, thank God who has\\nhealed us, and then ask\\nhim to help us to love\\nand serve him better than\\nwe did before.\\nHezekiah wrote a\\nbeautiful song of praise\\nafter his recovery, thank-\\ning God for his great\\nmercy. All the people of\\nJudah rejoiced when they\\nsaw their king restored to\\nthem again it was a time\\nof great joy in Jerusalem,\\nand other people rejoiced\\ntoo in his recovery. The\\nking of Babylon wrote let-\\nters to Hezekiah, and sent\\nhim a present. Hezekiah isaiah s prediction to hezekiah.\\nwas pleased to see the messengers of the king of Babylon. He was very kind\\nto them, and gave them all they wished, and showed them his possessions\\nhis gold, and silver, and armor, and houses, and everything he had. Was\\nthis right It was right to be kind and hospitable. The Bible tells us to be", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0289.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "262 THE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS.\\nso. But Hezekiah felt very proud when he showed his riches to the mes-\\nsengers of the king of Babylon, and that was wrong. He wanted them to\\npraise him, and to go home and tell their master what a great king\\nHezekiah was.\\nThat was pride it was love of the world, and of worldly things,\\nand worldly praise. We are commanded not to seek the praise of men,\\nbut the praise of God; not to seek to please men, but to please God.\\nHezekiah did not please God now.\\nThe messengers went away and, perhaps, Hezekiah soon forgot his\\nsin but God had not forgotten it. He had seen all. He had looked into\\nthe heart of Hezekiah when he was showing his riches to the messengers,\\nand had seen there all Hezekiah s pride and foolish vanity and now he\\nwas going to punish his sinful servant. One day Isaiah came to see\\nHezekiah; but he did not look upon Hezekiah as he used to look. Then\\nIsaiah asked, Who were those men who came to Jerusalem? From\\nwhence came they? Hezekiah answered, They came from a very dis-\\ntant country, from Babylon.\\nIsaiah asked again, What have they seen in thy house? Perhaps\\nHezekiah began now to feel his sin, and to be ashamed of it, but he did\\nnot try to deny or excuse it. He confessed directly, I have shown them\\neverything in my house. Then Isaiah said, Hear the words of the Lord:\\nVery soon all the riches which thou hast laid up, shall be taken away to\\nBabylon, and thy sons shall be carried captive, and they shall be servants\\nto the king of Babylon.\\nThis was the punishment of Hezekiah. He had loved his riches\\ntoo much; God would soon take them all away. He had proudly shown\\nhis possessions to the messengers of the king of Babylon; the king of\\nBabylon would one day come, and carry those possessions to his own\\ncountry, and take Hezekiah s children there as helpless prisoners. How\\nfoolish it is to trust in earthly things, and love them so much They\\ncannot always stay with us and perhaps we may lose them very soon.\\nIt is best and wiser to have our riches and possessions in heaven. We\\ncan never lose our heavenly treasures; they will last for ever.\\nHezekiah felt his sin, and submitted humbly to the punishment.\\nHe asked for pardon, and for grace to help him to be humble, and to love\\nthe world less, and God more. And God in mercy heard his prayer, and\\ntold him that evil should not yet come upon the land of Judah. This", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0290.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "THE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS. 263\\ncomforted Hezekiah, and he thanked God and said, There shall be peace\\nand truth in my days.\\nThis story ought to teach us how weak and sinful we all are.\\nHezekiah was a good man but when he was left to himself, when he\\ntrusted to his own strength and goodness, he forgot to ask for God s grace,\\nhe began to sin directly. Our hearts are full of pride, and of every other\\nsin, which God alone can help us to subdue. Jesus Christ says, Without\\nme ye can do nothing.\\nThe fifteen years passed away. They were happy and prosperous\\nyears; but they soon ended, and then the time came when Hezekiah must\\ndie. And he was willing to die now; he did not wish more years added\\nto his life. He had had enough of the world, and was glad to leave its\\nsins, and follies, and vanities, and to go to his home in heaven.\\nWe do not know when we shall die. God has not told us, as he\\ntold Hezekiah, how many years longer we shall live. Perhaps we may\\nlive fifteen years, or more; perhaps we may die this year. We cannot\\ntell. But are we ready to die Have our sins been repented of, and\\nforgiven Have our hearts been made new by God s Holy Spirit Do we\\nlove God better than all the world, and are we trying to serve him in all\\nwe do If not, we cannot be ready to die, and this is a very awful thought.\\nDeath may come in a moment; and where will the soul go then, if it is\\nnot prepared for heaven Seek, like Hezekiah, to be ready for death.\\nManasseh, Hezekiah s son, now reigned over Judah. He was not\\nlike his good father; he was an idolater, and built again all the idol-altars\\nwhich Hezekiah had thrown down. He worshipped the sun, and moon,\\nand stars; he burnt his children in sacrifice to idols, and set up an image\\nin God s holy temple. The people of Judah soon learnt to do as Manasseh\\ndid, and all the country became again full of idolatry, and rebellion\\nagainst God.\\nGod warned Manasseh and his people; he spoke to them by his\\nprophets; but this wicked nation would not attend to the warning. Then\\npunishment came; all those troubles of which Isaiah had spoken to\\nHezekiah. The king of Assyria sent, and took Manasseh prisoner, and\\nbound him in chains, and brought him to Babylon.\\nManasseh now felt how dreadful it is to sin against God. He\\nthought of all his past sins; his wicked idolatry, and forgetfulness of the\\ntrue God. And then, perhaps, he remembered his good father, and all the", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0291.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "264\\nTHE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS.\\nholy lessons Hezekiah had taught hiin many years before. Manasseh had\\nnot then cared for the things which Hezekiah loved so much. He had\\nbeen, perhaps, a rebellious, disobedient child, and had given his kind\\nfather much trouble and sorrow. But Hezekiah had often prayed that God\\nwould have mercy on his\\nson and now, after so\\nmany years,\\nkiah was in\\nwhen Heze-\\nhis grave,\\nGod answered his prayers.\\nManasseh repented\\nin his captivity. His sor-\\nrows brought him to God.\\nWhen he was in afflic-\\ntion, he besought the Lord\\nhis God, and humbled\\nhimself greatly before the\\nGod of his fathers, and\\nprayed unto him. And\\ndid God hear Manasseh s\\nprayer? Yes, God is so\\nmerciful, that he will hear\\nand pardon all who truly\\nrepent. He casts out none\\nwho come to him, if they\\nbelieve in him. God heard\\nand blessed Manasseh.\\nHe delivered him from his\\ntrouble, and brought him\\nhome to his own king-\\ndom again and Manasseh\\nreigned in peace in Jeru-\\ncaptivity and REPENTANCE OF MANASSEH. salem. He did not reign\\nnow as he had reigned before. Manasseh had learnt that the Lord he\\nwas God; so he took away the idols, and threw down the altars, and\\ncommanded Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel. The last part of\\nManasseh s life was happy. Why? Because Manasseh was at peace with\\nGod, and he had his blessing.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0292.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "THE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS. 265\\nAmon, Manasseh s son, reigned now in Judah. He worshipped idols,\\nas his father had done at first but Anion did not, like his father, repent\\nof his sins, and humble himself before God. He grew worse and worse;\\nand at last his servants conspired against him, and slew him, and made\\nhis son Josiah king of Judah.\\nJosiah was a little boy when he began to reign only eight years\\nold. We have read before of man}^ little boys who began when they were\\nvery young to love and fear the Lord and Josiah was like these good\\nchildren. The Bible tells us he did that which was right in the sight of\\nthe Lord. But how could Josiah know what was right? The Bible tells\\nus this too. It was because Josiah was taught of God. While he was\\nyet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father, and God\\nwho had taken care of David, and loved and blessed him all his life,\\nheard the prayer of young Josiah, and loved and blessed him also. God\\ngave him his Holy Spirit to teach him to do right, and to rule his king-\\ndom well.\\nJosiah was ignorant, and weak, and sinful, like other children it\\nwas the Spirit of God, not his own wisdom, and strength, and goodness,\\nthat made him do right in the sight of the Lord. How happy Josiah was,\\nto have a heavenly Father to keep and guide him, when his earthly father\\nwas dead He was a happy child, because he was a holy child. And\\nmay not children now be as holy and as happy as Josiah was Yes, if\\nthey seek to be so, as he sought. God is as willing to attend to children\\nnow as he was when Josiah lived. He will hear the prayers of every\\nchild who humbly seeks him. Jesus still says, I love them that love me,\\nand they that seek me early shall find me.\\nWhen Josiah grew older, he was anxious to do all he could for the\\nservice of God; and he commanded that the holy temple should be repaired.\\nMoney was collected from the people who came to God s house and this\\nmoney was given to carpenters, and masons, and builders, and they bought\\nwood and stone, and began to repair the temple. The money given to\\nthese men was not counted. The king and the priests knew that the\\nworkmen were faithful and honest, and that they would not steal nor waste\\nthe money; for they were the servants of God, and remembered always\\nthat his eye was upon them.\\nWhen Hilkiah, the priest, went into the house of the Lord to\\nbring out the money, he found there the book of the law of God and he", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0293.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "266\\nTHE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS.\\ncarefully brought it out, and sent it to the king. Josiah honored this book\\nvery much, because it was the book of God; his holy law was written in\\nit. Josiah told one of his servants to read the book to him and he\\nlistened to it very attentively, and very reverently. This is what we ought\\nto do when we have the\\nBible read to us; and wher\\nwe read it to ourselves,\\nwe should remember that\\nit is God s word, and attend\\nto it very solemnly, and\\nseek to understand it.\\nBut when Josiah\\nhad heard the book read,\\nhe began to weep; and he\\nrent his clothes, and was\\nin very great trouble. Why\\nwas this What did God s\\nlaw say to him to make\\nhim so unhappy It told\\nhim of God s holiness and\\nhatred of sin, and of his\\nanger against those who\\ndisobey his commands.\\nJosiah felt that he and his\\npeople had many times\\ndisobeyed God and he was\\nafraid that soon God might\\npunish them, because they\\nhad done so much to make\\nhim angry. This thought\\nmade Josiah tremble and\\njosiah CONSULTS The PROPHETESS- rend his clothes. And\\nwhen sinners read the Bible now, there is much to make them tremble too.\\nWe read there that all have sinned, and the soul that sinneth it shall die.\\nThere was a good woman living at Jerusalem, named Huldah. She\\nwas a prophetess and God honored her very much in making known his\\nwill to her, by his Spirit. When Josiah was in so much trouble after", "height": "3246", "width": "2318", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0294.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "THE Lx^ST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS. 267\\nreading God s law, he sent messengers to Hnldali to ask her advice. God\\nhad seen all Josiah s trouble he knew all his thoughts, and he had sent a\\nmessage of comfort for him to the prophetess Huldah. She told the\\nmessengers, that God was indeed angry with the people of Judah, and that\\nhe would surely punish them as his law threatened but that he was not\\nangry with Josiah.\\nHe said to him, Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst\\nhumble thyself before God, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before\\nme, I have heard thee, saith the Lord. Thou shalt be gathered to thy\\ngrave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see the evil that I will bring upon\\nthis place. This comforted Josiah. What a blessing it is to have God\\nfor our friend Then we need never fear for he will always be with us,\\nto keep, and bless, and comfort us. If he please, he can preserve us from,\\nall evil or he can take us away from it, as he took away Josiah, in\\npeace. The righteous is taken away from the evil to come. He shall\\nenter into peace.\\nJosiah read the law of God to the people. He made a holy covenant\\nwith God, to love and serve him with all his heart; and then he made his\\npeople promise that they too would serve the Lord. The people were\\nwilling and obedient and they put away their idols, and said, We will\\nserve the Lord. Then Josiah threw down the idol-altars, and broke\\nin pieces the images, and destroyed the altar which Jeroboam had set\\nup in Bethel.\\nLong ago, we read the story of the prophet who came to Bethel, in\\nJeroboam s time, and prophesied that the idol-altars should be thrown down\\nand men s bones burnt upon them. Now, this prophecy was fulfilled\\nJosiah was the king who destro}^ed the altars, as God had said. Josiah\\nsaw the tombs of many of the wicked priests and he opened these tombs\\nand took out the bones, and burnt them upon the altar. Then he slew\\nthe living idolatrous priests, and burnt their bones too.\\nBut there was one tomb in Bethel which Josiah did not open. There\\nwas a title upon that tomb, and Josiah asked what the title was. The\\npeople said, That is the grave of the prophet who came from Judah, many\\nyears ago, and prophesied about those things which thou hast done to the\\naltar of Bethel. Then Josiah said, Let no man move his bones. So\\nhis bones were left quietly in their resting-place, with the bones of the old\\nprophet who was buried by him.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0295.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "268\\nTHE LAST KINGS OF THE HEBREWS.\\nAfter the idols were destroyed, Josiah kept the feast of the Passover,\\nwith all his people, in Jerusalem. This good king tried to teach his\\nsubjects the right way; and God blessed him in what he did, and his\\ncountry was peaceful and happy many years. But after all this the king of\\nEgypt fought against As-\\nsyria, and Josiah went out\\nto resist him. It was\\nwrong of Josiah to join in\\nthis war without God s\\ndirection and he was pun-\\nished for his folly he\\nwas killed in the battle.\\nHis body was brought\\nto Jerusalem and all the\\npeople wept over it, be-\\ncause they loved and hon-\\nored their king. He was\\nsafe now from all the evils\\nthat were coming on his\\ncountry. His body was\\nquietly resting in the grave,\\nand his soul was in that\\nhappy place where no evil\\ncan come, and where so\\nmany of his fathers had\\ngone before.\\nThere have been\\nmany good kings, of whom\\nwe read in history, and\\nmany bad ones. The higher\\nour position is and the more\\ndeath OF king josiah. influence we exert, the more\\ncareful we should be to do what is right. No rulers are more honored\\nthan those who are wise and good, even though they may not be so great\\nas some Caesar or Napoleon. To be only great as I am good, is an\\nexcellent motto for all young people, and if they follow it they cannot\\nmake any mistake.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0296.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "THE CAPTIVITY.\\nNEBUCHADNEZZAR, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, and\\ntook Jehoiakiin prisoner, and bound him with chains, and was\\ngoing to carry him to Babylon. But Jehoiakim died before he\\ncould be taken there; and his dead body was cast out unburied, beyond\\nthe gates of Jerusalem. None pitied, none cared for this wicked and rebel-\\nlious king.\\nNebuchadnezzar went into the house of God, and took away all the\\nholy vessels he found there, and caried them to Babylon, and put them\\ninto his idol s temple. Jehoiachin, the son of Jehoiakim, reigned in Judah\\nafter his father, but only a very little time. Nebuchadnezzar came again\\nto Jerusalem, and made Zedekiah, a relation of Jehoiachin, king and carried\\nJehoiachin to Babylon, where he lived some years. A great many of the\\npeople of Judah were carried to Babylon also; all the princes, and nobles,\\nand work-people; only the poorest of the people were left in Jerusalem,\\nwith Zedekiah to reign over them. Jeremiah was there too he was left\\nto prophesy, and to warn the people of Judah.\\nAmong the captives taken to Babylon, were some young nobles and\\nprinces. The king of Babylon was pleased with these children and he said\\nthey should be taught all the learning of the Babylonians and after a few\\nyears be taken into his palace to stand before him. The Bible tells us a\\ngreat deal about four of these young princes. Their names were Daniel,\\nShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. One of Nebuchadnezzar s servants had\\nthe care of them, whose name was Melzar. Every day he brought\\nthem meat and wine from the king s table for Nebuchadnezzar sent the\\nyoung princes every thing he thought they might like and they had\\nmasters to teach them, and all that this world could give to make them happy.\\nBut Daniel and his young friends had learnt in their own country\\nbetter wisdom than they were taught at Babylon; they had learnt to seek\\nhappiness, not in this world, but in God and all their delight was in holy\\nand heavenly things. When they came to Babylon, they knew that they\\nshould be often tempted to forget God, the God of Israel, and to love the\\nthings of the world, the foolish and wicked pleasures of Babylon. But\\nthese children were determined that they would not forsake their kind\\nand merciful God in this strange and wicked land.\\n269", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0297.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "270\\nTHE CAPTIVITY.\\nThe food which was brought to the young princes was sonietiii.es\\nfood forbidden by the Jewish law and sometimes it had been offered to\\nthe idols of Babylon. Daniel and his friends knew that it was wrong to\\neat this food. They were not now in their own country but they wished\\nstill to obey the laws which\\nGod himself had given to\\nthem and they determined\\nnot to displease him by\\neating what he liad forbid-\\nden. They therefore re-\\nfused trie food offered them.\\nAfterward Daniel\\nincurred the displeasure of\\nthe king of Babylon, who\\nat this time was Darius,\\nand was cast into a den of\\nlions. When the king came\\nto the den, he cried out,\\nO, Daniel, is thy God,\\nwhom thou servest, able to\\ndeliver thee from the lions\\nDarius waited very anx-\\niously for the answer but\\nhow glad he was when he\\nheard Daniel s voice again,\\nand found that he was still\\nalive and well in the lions\\nden And what did Daniel\\nsay He said, O king,\\nmy God has sent his angel,\\nand hath shut the lions\\nDANIEL S ACCUSERS THROWN TO THE LIONS. mouths, and they have not\\nhurt me. Then Darius was glad, and he commanded that Daniel should\\nbe taken out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and\\nno hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.\\nAnd now the king determined to punish Daniel s wicked accusers\\nso he commanded them to be brought and cast into the den. They had", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0298.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "THE CAPTIVITY. 271\\nno God to preserve them no holy angel was sent to shnt the lions\\nmouths for them no, the savage beasts sprang upon them in a moment,\\nand broke all their bones to pieces before they came to the bottom of the\\nden. All the people saw and wondered and confessed that Daniel s God\\nwas indeed a powerful God, able to deliver his servants and to punish his\\nenemies. And then Darius wrote to all the people in his kingdom, and\\ntold them the wonderful story of Daniel s deliverance, and commanded\\nthem to fear and tremble before the great and powerful God of Daniel.\\nLet this powerful God be your friend, as he was Daniel s; and then\\nyou need not fear any enemy, nor any trouble. He is the Father of\\nmercies, and the God of all comfort who comforteth us in all our tribulation.\\nThe history of the Jewish captivity is contained in the book of Bzra.\\nAfter seventy years light broke in upon their darkness, the years of their\\nexile from their dear Jerusalem were ended, and they saw the dawn of a\\nbrighter day.\\nEzra was a priest very skilful in the law, the son of Seraiah, the\\nhigh priest, who was slain by Nebuchadnezzar. He was also a ready\\nscribe in the law of Moses, and a careful student and collector of the\\nsacred books. He has been called a second Moses, having been instru-\\nmental, like him, in leading Israel out of captivity in preserving the holy\\nlaw, as Moses gave it and having lived, as it is said, the same number of\\nyears, that is, one hundred and twenty.\\nCyrus, the king of Persia, who conquered Babylon, as Babylon had\\nconquered the Jews, found the Jews captive there, and was moved by God\\nto set them all at liberty, and gave them every encouragement to return\\nto their own country. In his proclamation, Cyrus says to the Jews, The\\nLord God of heaven hath charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem,\\nwhich is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people his God\\nbe with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and\\nbuild the house of the Lord God of Israel (he is the God), which is\\nin Jerusalem.\\nMost eagerly did the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin,\\nand the priests and the Levites, accept of this release, for God had raised\\nup their spirits to go up to build the house of the Lord.\\nCyrus also commanded that those who were rich should help those\\nwho were poor, and give them silver, gold, goods, and cattle, to enable\\nthem to return and live in their own country. So all that were about", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0299.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "272\\nTHE CAPTIVITY.\\nthem, the Chaldeans as well as the rich Jews, helped forward the return\\nto the desolate land.\\nBesides the money, goods, and cattle, thus given to these people,\\nCod also inclined the heart of Cyrus to give up all the rich plunder of\\nthe temple, which Nebu-\\nchadnezzar had carried\\naway. This consisted of\\ngolden and silver chargers\\nor dishes, knives, basins,\\nand other vessels of gold\\nand silver, amounting in\\nall to five thousand four\\nhundred.\\nThe whole number\\nthat returned to their own\\ncountry is stated at forty-\\ntwo thousand three hun-\\ndred and sixty, besides\\nseven thousand servants,\\nand two hundred singing\\nmen. But then these were\\nnot the whole of the Jews.\\nMany of the lower orders\\nwere left in the country\\nto till the ground but all\\nthat were ingenious, as\\nartificers, or rich, or had\\nany influence in the coun-\\ntry, were taken away.\\nMoreover, many now fixed\\nin Babylon, and who had\\nTHE JEWS PREPARING TO RETURN. nQ loye for the{r Qwn cotm\\ntry, and no religion to make them desirous of serving God in his temple,\\nremained behind.\\nIt is said that Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the\\nLord. He learned the holy truth of God that he might teach in Israel\\nstatutes and judgments that is, the laws moral, ceremonial, and civil.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0300.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "THE CAPTIVITY.\\n273\\nBy moral laws are meant those which relate to our duty to God and our\\nneighbor not to swear, break the Sabbath, lie, steal, and do other wicked\\nthings, but to love God and to love our neighbors, and to try and do them\\ngood. By ceremonial laws, are intended those which regulated all the\\ncustoms of Jewish worship.\\nAnd by civil laws are\\npointed out those which\\nregulate our conduct in\\nsociety towards each other,\\nespecially as citizens, watch-\\ning over each other s inter-\\nests as a body of people,\\nand behaving orderly in our\\nconnection with mankind\\naround us.\\nSuch a man as Hzra,\\nwho learned, and did, and\\ntaught these laws, was\\nindeed a blessing to his\\nnation. To show how God\\napproved of him, he gave\\nhim the greatest success\\nat the court of Babylon\\nfor the king wrote a letter\\ngranting him a number of\\nfavors for his people, and\\ngiving him very great\\npower. He wrote a letter\\nwhich, you will observe,\\nbegins, Artaxerxes, king\\nof kings, unto Ezra the\\npriest. This title su-\\nEZRA OBTAINING HIS COMMISSION.\\nKing of kings,\\npremely, or above all, belongs to Jesus Christ, who is\\nand Lord of lords.\\nIt was, however, neither a profane, nor a false title, as used by\\nArtaxerxes, for he was king over other kings, who, having been conquered\\nby his people, were tributary to him, and held their crowns at his pleasure.\\n18", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0301.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "274 THE CAPTIVITY.\\nIn this letter, the king granted permission to all the Jews which yet\\nremained at Babylon, to go to Jerusalem. He also authorized him to\\ninquire into all the behavior of the Jews at Jerusalem, and to see if it was\\nsuch as the law of his God required.\\nHe likewise, with his nobles, gave him rich presents, and he granted\\nhim leave to collect gifts of gold and silver, and to take them to Jeru-\\nsalem in aid of the temple particularly to buy beasts for the purpose of\\noffering them up to God according to the law. The king also ordered the\\nministers of the holy religion to be free from all taxes and he authorized\\nKzra to appoint wise and just magistrates to govern the people, and to\\npunish those that broke the laws.\\nWhen Bzra thought of this kindness of the king, he blessed God,\\nand owned that it was he who put it into the king s heart. And Bzra\\ngladly undertook to fulfil all his commission, and for this purpose went to\\nJerusalem, accompanied by many chief men of Israel, whom he now per-\\nsuaded to accompany him.\\nSome of the pious princes went to him in great grief, and lamented\\nthat this people had acted in a very ungrateful manner towards God, and\\ninstead of serving him more faithfully, united themselves with idolaters,\\ndoing according to their abominations. Widowers had even married\\nCanaanitish and other heathen wives, and sanctioned the same marriages\\namong their sons not only so, but some of the prinees and rulers, who,\\nfrom their higher rank, ought to have set a better example, had been\\nguilty of the like offence against God s laws.\\nWhen Bzra heard these things, he rent his clothes, plucked off the\\nhair of his head and beard, and sat down silent on the ground. These\\nwere all customs among the Jews expressive of the greatest grief. While\\nEzra thus grieved, a number of pious men gathered themselves around\\nhim and at the time of the evening sacrifice, Bzra rose up, fell upon his\\nknees, and lamented the sins of the people, and then left himself and them\\nin the hands of God as a God of mercy.\\nSeeing his excessive grief, great numbers had now gathered around\\nhim, and while he wept they also wept men, women, and children. At\\nlength, one whose name was Shecaniah, acknowledged the guilt of the\\npeople, and expressed a hope that they would do the evil complained of\\nno more. He, therefore, advised that all the strange wives, which had\\nbeen taken against the command of God, should be put away; and the", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0302.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "THE CAPTIVITY.\\n275\\nchief priests, Levites, and all Israel, swore it should be done as Shecaniah\\nand Ezra had proposed.\\nWithin three days after this, all Judah and Benjamin assembled,\\nbeing called together, and Ezra told them how they had sinned against\\nGod, and entreated them\\nto put away their heathen\\nwives. And they all said\\nthey would do so.\\nProper inquiry was\\nthen made about all their\\nmarriages, and in three\\nmonths the examination\\nwas finished. It was found\\nthat all classes had some\\nwho were guilty and that,\\nin all, about one hundred\\nand thirteen had married\\nheathen women.\\nThus was this refor-\\nmation effected. Those who\\ndid not approve of it had\\nno choice but to be sepa-\\nrated from the congrega-\\ntion that is, they were\\nnot allowed to worship God\\nin his temple, and were to\\nbe cut off from the people,\\nand be left without the\\nhope of true Israelites.\\nThus, my dear readers, we\\nhave no choice between\\nserving sin and serving THE heathen wives SENT away.\\nGod. If we continue to serve sin, we must be for ever cut off from his\\nfavor; but if we forsake sin and serve him, he is full of grace and mercy,\\nand will not forsake us.\\nWe next come to the state of the Jews at Jerusalem about ten years\\nafter the period mentioned in the Book of Ezra, and in the twentieth year", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0303.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "276 THE CAPTIVITY.\\nof the reign of Artaxerxes. God so ordered matters that at this time some\\nJews had occasion to go to Shnshan, or Snsa, an ancient city in which\\nwas the winter palace of the kings of Persia. Nehemiah, a pious Jew,\\nhappened to be the king s cupbearer, which was a place of great honor,\\n,and gave him an opportunity of being frequently in the king s presence,\\nand that at a time when his heart was cheerful, and he was disposed to\\nbe kind and good-natured.\\nThis good man having inquired of his brethren, the Jews, how\\nthings were going on at Jerusalem, was grieved to learn that the people\\nwere in great affliction and reproach, and that the wall of the city was\\nstill broken down, and the gates were burned with fire, as the Baby-\\nlonians had left them.\\nThen Nehemiah was very sorry, and he wept and mourned for\\nthe sins of his country, which had been the cause of all its suffering; and\\nhe fasted and prayed before the God of heaven, beseeching him in\\nbehalf of his people, and that he might find favor with the king, in trying\\nto do something for their good.\\nAt length, when he was waiting on the king, as he did not usually\\nlook dull for good men ought to look happy the king wondered to see\\nhim so dejected. And he told him he had great cause to be sad, for he\\nhad learned that the chief city of his beloved country was still in ruins.\\nThen the king wished to know what he could do for him Nehemiah\\npaused a moment and prayed to God, perhaps thanking him for the favor\\nhe had already found with the king, and perhaps, also, asking God for\\nwisdom to give a right answer. Then he asked the king to let him go to\\nJerusalem, and restore it from its ruins. And the king gave him leave to\\ngo, and allowed him to fix his own time for staying.\\nHe next asked the king for letters to the governors of the country\\nthrough which he should pass, that he might meet with every help from\\nthem in proceeding on his journey; and also for a letter to the keeper of\\nthe king s forest, that he might obtain from him any quantity of timber\\nthat might be necessary, for the workmen to use in rebuilding what was\\nbroken down. This, too, the king granted. Nehemiah sees all his success\\nas coming from God, and he says, The king granted me according to\\nthe good hand of my God upon me.\\nNehemiah now set off, accompanied with a guard of honor from the\\nking, to protect him all the way till he reached Jerusalem. Nehemiah", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0304.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "THE CAPTIVITY.\\n277\\nthought it prudent to make no bustle about what he was going to do, lest\\nhe should be opposed in his work. So he went in the night time, and\\nlooked all over the ruins of the city. And when he had seen what ought\\nto be done, and laid his plans, he called together the chief men of the\\nJews, and he advised them\\nto build up the wall which\\nsurrounded the city; and\\nhe told them of God s good-\\nness to him, and of his\\nsuccess with the king.\\nThey were so much de-\\nlighted at this news, that\\nthey agreed at once to set\\nto work and build, and\\nencouraged one another in\\nthe undertaking.\\nThen Sanballat, who\\nwas a Moabite, and a gov-\\nernor of the Samaritans,\\nand Tobiah, an Ammonite,\\nwho had been raised from\\na slave, and who was now\\na governor as well as San-\\nballat, and Gesheni, who\\nwas, most likely, an Arab\\nchief, tried all in their\\npower to frighten the Jews,\\nthat they might not go on\\nwith their work. But Nehe-\\nmiah knew what he was\\nabout, and he told them\\nthat he was sure God would nehemiah inspecting the ruins.\\nprosper his countrymen, and therefore they should certainly build and\\nas for those who oposed them, they had no right to meddle with the affairs\\nof Jerusalem, and would do better to mind their own business.\\nAs soon as it was decided that the city should all be built up, every\\nman took his share in the work, the priests first setting the example by", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0305.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "278 THE CAPTIVITY.\\nbuilding the sheep gate, which was most likely the gate through which\\nthe sheep were brought that were to be sacrificed in the temple. And\\nin addition to the priests, tradesmen and workmen of all sorts helped to\\nbuild the walls. Bven the rulers united in this work, and probably not\\nonly by giving their gold and silver, but also their labor.\\nThe nobles of Tekoa were, indeed, exceptions, whose names are\\nmentioned with disgrace, because they put not their necks to the work\\nof the Lord meaning, that the ox works by drawing with his yoke on\\nhis neck, but they would have no yoke or, in other words, they refused\\nin any way to afford aid, and did not care at all about their city. The\\ndaughters of Shallum, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, were also\\namong those that assisted.\\nWhile this work was going on, Sanballat, the governor of Samaria,\\nwas much mortified, and tried to stir up the army which he commanded\\nand he said, What do these feeble Jews will they fortify themselves\\nwill they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? meaning, perhaps,\\nthat, unless they made very great haste indeed, they would find that a\\nstop should be put to their work. Will they revive the stones out of\\nthe heaps of the rubbish which are burned\\nAnd Tobiah, the Ammonite, joined him, and laughed at the idea of\\nthe Jews being able again to build up their wall with such rubbish as\\nthey had got: Wiry, said he, if a fox go up, it shall even break down\\ntheir stone wall, it will not bear his weight.\\nThis came to the ears of Nehemiah, who felt for the honor of his\\nGod; and he was grieved, and prayed to God to take notice of his adver-\\nsaries, leaving it in his hands to do as he in his wisdom and justice\\nshould think right.\\nIn the meantime the Jews proceeded so rapidly, that they soon car-\\nried up the wall all round the city, to half its proper height. Sanballat\\nand his companions now found that while they were mocking the Jews\\nwere working, and when they had learned that they had really built so\\nmuch, their sneerings were turned into rage they were very wroth.\\nThen they conspired all of them together, to come and fight against\\nJerusalem, and to hinder it.\\nNehemiah, however, still went on with the work, and while his\\nadversaries threatened he prayed. He met all the increasing appearances\\nof danger with increasing caution. He placed people with swords, spears,", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0306.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "THE CAPTIVITY.\\n279\\nand bows behind the lower walls, which might be attempted before they\\nwere raised to their proper height and he also put men on the higher\\nplaces or towers, to have the greater command of the enemy, and then he\\nencouraged the people by an animating speech. Be ye not afraid of\\nthem, said he, remember\\nthe Lord, who is great and\\nterrible, and fight for your\\nbrethren, your sons and\\nyour daughters, your wives\\nand your houses. How-\\never, when the adversaries\\nsaw that the Jews were\\naware of their intentions,\\nthey gave up the contest.\\nNevertheless, Nehe-\\nmiah did not give up his\\ncaution, for he knew that\\nhe had a bitter and a sub-\\ntle foe to deal with. Some\\nmen were still kept ready\\nfor any conflict, and all\\nworked with one hand, and\\nheld a weapon with the\\nother, or at least had it\\nclose at hand, or girt about\\nthem and some of the more\\nweighty weapons were com-\\nmitted to the care of others\\nnear at hand the spears,\\nthe shields, the bows, and\\nthe habergeons, or breast-\\nplates, or coats of mail. rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem.\\nNehemiah also appointed a trumpeter to stand by him, and if he\\nshould see any danger, or hear any alarm as the workmen were divided\\na great way from each o^her, all around the city this trumpeter could\\nblow his trumpet, and call them all to the place where their help was\\nneeded. He also ordered all the people to continue in Jerusalem to guard", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0307.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "280 THE CAPTIVITY.\\nit by night, as well as to work by day. Thus they went on with the\\nwork, and that they might be ready to meet any attack, they never even\\npulled off their clothes, except when it was necessary to send them to be\\nwashed. Finally the work was finished.\\nNehemiah ordered that the gates of Jerusalem should be kept shut\\nevery morning, till the sun became hot that is, till it was likely there\\nwere plenty of people risen to defend the city from any attempts to enter\\nit by the gates. A similar custom is still to be found among the inhabit-\\nants in the parts of the world about Judea for travelers inform us, that\\nif a traveller arrives after sunset he finds the gates shut, and on no con-\\nsideration will they open them till the next morning, so that those who\\ncome late are obliged to lodge in the plain. Nehemiah further desired,\\nthat care should be taken to see that the gates were kept closed, and\\nthat proper persons should be always on the watch to prevent surprise\\nfrom their enemies.\\nJerusalem had not yet recovered its inhabitants. The city was still\\nas large as it was when it was full of people; but the people who returned\\nfrom the captivity in Babylon, had not all taken up their abode there,\\nand the houses were not builded. The number that came out of cap-\\ntivity with Zerubbabel did indeed amount to forty-two thousand three\\nhundred and sixty, and many more came with Ezra. Yet a great num-\\nber chose to settle in the towns and cities in the country, Jerusalem being\\nin such a desolate condition.\\nSo Nehemiah says, u My God put into mine heart to gather together\\nthe nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned\\nby genealogy. And I found a register of them which came up at the\\nfirst, and found written therein, These are the children of the promise,\\nthat went out of the captivity. This register directed Nehemiah to find\\nout to what city each family formerly belonged, and who to the city of\\nJerusalem, that they might be called upon to come and rebuild their\\nhouses, and take up their residence there.\\nNehemiah then gives an account of the children of the province of\\nJudea as it was now reduced, who came out of the captivity of Babylon\\nthrough the decree of Cyrus. He also tells us of the liberality of those\\nwho subscribed well for rebuilding the city and the temple and he con-\\ncludes by informing us, that in a short time he children of Israel got all\\nfixed in their own cities.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0308.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "THE CAPTIVITY.\\n281\\nAnd now we read of a grand assembly of tne people, which took\\nplace in the open street, because, probably, there was no place large enough\\nto hold them and that there, Ezra, at the request of the people, read the\\nlaw of the Lord aloud, from the morning until mid-day, before the men\\nand the women, and those\\nthat could understand\\nand the ears of all the\\npeople were attentive unto\\nthe book of the law. This\\nwas a most serious meet-\\ning. The people all stood\\nup to show respect, Ezra\\nblessed the Lord, the great\\nGod, who had given them\\nhis holy law, and all the\\npeople answered Amen,\\nAmen, with lifting up their\\nhands, and they bowed\\ntheir heads and they wor-\\nshipped the Lord, with\\ntheir faces to the ground.\\nThere were many\\nothers who stood by the\\nside of Ezra, and who most\\nlikely sometimes helped\\nhim by reading a few\\nportions while he rested;\\nfor reading so long in the\\nopen air, to so great a\\nnumber of people, must\\nhave fatigued him very\\nmuch. These also, as bringing forth THE LAW.\\nwell as Ezra, explained such parts as the people could not easily understand.\\nThe people were so much affected, that they all wept when they\\nheard the words of the law, remembering how much they had broken it.\\nAnd Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, or governor, and Ezra, the priest, the\\nscribe, and the Levites, that taught the people, said unto all the people,", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0309.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "282\\nTHE CAPTIVITY.\\nThis day is holy unto the Lord your God; mourn not nor weep. It seems\\nthat this meeting was kept on the feast of trumpets, which was on the first\\nday of the Jews seventh month and as that was usually a day of joy, it\\nwas not keeping it aright to show sadness. So Nehemiah said unto them,\\nGo your way, eat the\\nfat and drink the sweet,\\nand send portions unto\\nthem for whom nothing\\nis prepared for this day\\nis holy unto our Lord;\\nneither be ye sorry; for\\nthe joy of the Lord is your\\nstrength. So all the peo-\\nple did as they were ordered\\nto do, and were happy.\\nOn the second day\\nthe chiefs of the fathers,\\nor heads of the families\\nand tribes, made further\\ninquiries of Bzra about\\nthe meaning of many parts\\nof the law. And they\\nfound written in the law\\nwhich the Lord had com-\\nmanded to Moses, that the\\nchildren of Israel should\\ndwell in booths in the feast\\nof the seventh month and\\nthat they should publish\\nand proclaim in all their\\ncities, and in Jerusalem,\\nTHE READING OF THE LAW. saying, Go forth unto the\\nmount, and fetch, olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches,\\nand palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is\\nwritten that is, as it is written in the twenty-third chapter of Leviticus,\\nand the fortieth verse.\\nYou will recollect, my dear young reader, that all this was ordered", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0310.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "THE CAPTIVITY. 283\\nto be done for the purpose of keeping the Feast of Tabernacles, which was\\nheld to keep in remembrance the travelling life of the Israelites in the\\nwilderness, after the}^ had been delivered from Egyptian slavery. Now,\\nhaving been delivered from the Babylonish captivity, and the proper time\\nof the year occurring, it was their special duty to keep the same feast.\\nSo the people fetched the boughs, and made themselves booths,\\nevery one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the\\ncourts of the house of God, and in the street of the water-gate, and in the\\nstreet of the gate of Ephraim. All the congregation of them that were\\ncome again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths,\\nduring the seven days that the feast lasted, to remind them how their\\nfathers dwelt in booths in the wilderness. Indeed, since the days of\\nJeshua, or Joshua, the son of Nun, unto that day, had not the children\\nof Israel done so. Joshua observed the feast when he had brought and\\nsettled the people of Israel in the land of Canaan and it had been\\nobserved since, but no Feast of Tabernacles had been so heartily and so\\npiously celebrated.\\nNehemiah found out that the Invites had been neglected, and the\\npeople cared so little about religion, that not having provided for them, as\\nGod had commanded, they had all left the city, and gone into the fields\\nto work for themselves. He also soon remedied this evil, and brought\\nback the Levites, and made the people bring their tithes of corn, wine, and\\noil, into their treasuries.\\nThere being no regard paid to religion, the holy Sabbath was\\nshamefully abused. God had commanded it to be kept as a holy day, and\\nthat no manner of work should be done in it but on that day they worked\\ntheir wine-presses, to squeeze out the juice of the grapes for the purpose\\nof making wine and they carried their corn, and loaded their asses, and\\ntraded with the men of Tyre, who were a sort of pedlars, having many\\nwares to sell.\\nNehemiah reproved all this sin, and especially the nobles, who ought\\nto have used their authority to prevent it; and he reminded them that\\nbecause their fathers had sinned in the like way, they, their children, had\\nso long been suffering, and that this was like asking God to punish them\\nagain for their iniquity. To prevent any more trading on the Sabbath, he\\nordered the gates of Jerusalem to be shut from the evening before the\\nSabbath till the morning after; and, as he could not trust the faithless", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0311.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "284\\nTHE CAPTIVITY.\\nmen who had been porters at the gates, he set his own people to keep\\nthem, that no one should enter the city on the Sabbath with any mer-\\nchandise about him.\\nThe Tyrian traders did not like to be baulked in their dealings, and\\nlounged about outside the\\nwalls on the Sabbath-day,\\nhoping to entice some of\\nthe people to come out of\\nthe city, and to deal with\\nthem. However, Nehemiah\\nwas as sharp as they and\\nseeing what they were\\nabout, he told them, if\\nye do so again, I will lay\\nhands on you! and this\\nfrightened them so that\\nthey did not come any\\nmore on the Sabbath.\\nA great many of\\nthe Jews had also married\\nstrange wives of Ashdod,\\nof Ammon, and of Moab,\\nand their children, instead\\nof understanding their lan-\\nguage, to be able to learn\\nthe law of God, were\\nonly fit for heathen, and\\nknew but the languages\\nof their heathen mothers\\nand nurses, which they had.\\ntaught them. So these\\nNEHEMIAH PUNISHING EVIL-DOERS. J ews wou l d be t he fathers\\nof idolaters. With these men Nehemiah also contended, when they tried\\nto excuse themselves. And he cursed them; that is, he denounced the\\njudgments which God had spoken against them; and he smote certain of\\nthem, or ordered them to be beaten, according to the law; and he plucked\\noff their hair, to shame them, as they had no shame in sinning thus", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0312.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JOB. 285\\nopenly against God. He also obliged them to swear, that, for the time to\\ncome, they would never more suffer any such marriages to take place.\\nNehemiah, likewise, found out that a branch of the high priest s\\nown family one of his grandsons had married a daughter of Sanballat,\\nthat notorious enemy of the Jews. How little love had that man either to\\nGod or his country, who could make himself, in duty and interest, a friend\\nto him that was a sworn enemy to both It seems this young priest\\nwould not put away his wife, and therefore Nehemiah chased him from\\nhim deprived him, degraded him, and made him for ever incapable of\\nthe priesthood.\\nThus did Nehemiah reform and benefit his countrymen the Jews,\\nand aim to promote the honor and glory of his God looking only for his\\nreward in heaven. This is what he meant when he so often prayed,\\nRemember me, O my God, concerning this. For God does not forget\\nwhat we do for his glory, though it is our duty to do it, though what we\\ncan do is but little, and though he has no need of our services for his own\\nbenefit, but all the benefit belongs to ourselves. Young reader only fear\\nthe Lord and serve him, and he will be sure in his mercy to remember\\nyou for good.\\nTHE STORY OF JOB.\\nTHERE was dwelling in Uz, in Arabia, a man named Job. Job was\\na very rich man he had great possessions of sheep, and camels, and\\noxen, and asses he was the greatest man in the east at that time.\\nAnd Job was a holy man as well as a rich man. The Bible says, he feared\\nGod; the same God whom Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob feared; and\\nhe hoped as they did, to be saved by the Lord Jesus Christ, who was to\\ncome into the world to die for sinners. Job had several children and he\\ntaught them to serve God, and prayed for them, and offered sacrifices for\\nthem, according to the command of God.\\nNow there was a day when the sons of God came to present\\nthemselves before the Lord and Satan came also among them. What\\ndoes this mean Who were the sons of God, and why did God let Satan\\ncome among them The Bible does not tell us. Perhaps the sons of God\\nwere his true and faithful servants who came to worship before him and,\\nperhaps, Satan came among them, as he comes now among us, to tempt\\nthem to sin, and to lead them away from God.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0313.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "28G THE STORY OF JOB.\\nBut God spoke to Satan, and said to him, Whence comest thou\\nAnd Satan answered, From going to and fro in the earth, and from\\nwalking up and down in it. Then God asked Satan again, if he had\\nconsidered his servant Job, what a holy and upright man he was, and one\\nwho feared God. Satan had long known and hated Job, as he knows and\\nhates all the people of God; and he even dared to accuse Job before God,\\nand to say, that all his goodness was false and hypocritical and that he\\npretended to fear God, only that he might be rich, and safe, and prosper-\\nous, and not because he really loved him.\\nGod knew all the truth about Job. He knew that Job was sincere,\\nand not false and hypocritical as Satan said; but it pleased God to allow\\nSatan, at that time, to try Job, and to vex and afflict him; and God did\\n.jis for Job s own good; to make him more humble, more patient, and\\nmore believing. So the Lord said to Satan, All that he hath is in thy\\npower, only upon himself put not forth thine hand. Then Satan went\\nforth from the presence of the Lord, to use all the power allowed him, to\\nafflict and trouble righteous Job.\\nThere was a day when Job s sons and daughters were eating, and\\ndrinking wine in their eldest brother s house and there came a messenger\\nto Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside\\nthem, and some enemies, the Sabeans, fell upon them, and took them\\naway, and have slain the servants with the sword and I only am escaped\\nto tell thee. And while this messenger was speaking, there came another\\nto Job, and said, The fire is fallen from heaven, and has burned up the\\nsheep and the servants and I only am escaped to tell thee.\\nAnd while he was speaking, another messenger came, and said,\\nThe Chaldeans fell upon the camels, and carried them away, and slew\\nthe servants with the sword, and I only am escaped to tell thee. And\\nwhile this man was speaking, a fourth messenger came, and said, Thy\\nsons and daughters were eating and drinking in their eldest brother s\\nhouse, and there came a great wind, and smote the house, and it fell upon\\nthe young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped to tell thee.\\nPoor Job a very little time before, he had been the richest and\\nmost prosperous man in the east. Now, he had lost everything his flocks\\nand his herds, and his servants, and his children, too, all were gone.\\nI Tow did he bear so much sorrow? There was one thing Job still had,\\nand that enabled him to bear all this patiently.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0314.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JOB.\\n287\\nJob had not lost his trust in God. He felt quite sure that these\\ntroubles did not come without God s permission and he knew that God\\nwould only permit what was right and good for him so, when Job heard\\nall these sad tidings, though he arose and rent his clothes, to show his\\nsorrow, yet he fell down\\nand worshipped God, to\\nshow his submission to his\\nwill, and said, The Lord\\ngave, and the Lord hath\\ntaken away, blessed be\\nthe name of the Lord.\\nAgain there was a\\nday when the sons of God\\ncame to present themselves\\nbefore the Lord, and Satan\\ncame also among them.\\nThen God spoke to Satan,\\nas he had done before, and\\nasked him if he had con-\\nsidered his servant Job,\\nwho was still faithful,\\nthough he had been so\\ntried and so afflicted. But\\nSatan was not satisfied\\nwith all the troubles Job\\nhad suffered he wished to\\nvex and afflict him still\\nmore and he told God,\\nthat though Job had borne\\nthe loss of his possessions\\npatiently, yet, if his body\\nwere made to suffer dis- destruction of the flocks of job.\\nease and pain, he would then show that he was only a hypocrite after all,\\nand would even curse God to his face. The Lord was pleased, in his\\nwisdom, to allow Job to be still more tried and afflicted, so he said to\\nSatan, He is in thy hand but save his life. Then Satan went out and\\nsmote Job with sore boils all over his body.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0315.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "288 THE STORY OF JOB.\\nJob had now to bear pain, as well as sorrow; yet lie was patient\\nand submissive still. And then lie had another and a new trial. His wife\\nwas living, and she might have comforted Job in his trouble; but instead\\nof encouraging him to trust in God, she advised him to put an end to his\\nown life to kill himself. She said, Curse God, and die.\\nBut Job reproved her for speaking so wickedly, and said, What?\\nShall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil\\nJob knew that all came from God s hand and by God s permission; and\\ntherefore he was willing to receive whatever happened to him, whether it\\nwere good or evil.\\nWhen Job s friends came to the place where he was, they looked up,\\nand saw him, but they did not know him. He was not now as he once\\nhad been. When they last visited him, he was prosperous and happy,\\nwith all his family, and all his possessions, and living in honor and peace,\\nthe greatest man in the east. But now all was changed. There he sat,\\nalone, among the ashes; his body was covered with a dreadful disease; all\\nhis possessions were gone, his children were dead, and he had no one to\\nspeak kindly to him, nor to comfort him\\nThe sight made his friends feel sad, and They lifted up their voice\\nand wept. Then they rent their clothes, and sprinkled dust upon their\\nheads, and sat down with him upon the ground; and for seven days they\\ndid not speak a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great-\\nSometimes when our friends are in very great trouble, as Job was, it is\\nnot well to try to comfort them by words. It is kinder and wiser to feel\\nfor them in silence.\\nAt last, Job began to speak, and to complain bitterly of all his\\nsufferings. He was tempted even to wish he had never been born and\\nto murmur, and be impatient, and to find fault with God himself, who had\\nso afflicted him\\nAnd did not Job s friends encourage him to trust in God, and sub-\\nmit to his will No instead of doing this, they only added to his grief\\nby unkindly and unjustly accusing him. They told him God never would\\nhave afflicted him so much if he had not been a very wicked man for\\nthey thought that righteous people were always prosperous, and that only\\nthe wicked were afflicted; so, when they saw Job in trouble, they said his\\nsufferings were sent as a punishment for his sins, and they advised him\\nto humble himself before God, and ask for pardon.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0316.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JOB. 289\\nJob knew that he was a sinner he knew that he could not trust\\nto his own goodness and righteousness: he said, How should man be just\\nbefore God? If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me.\\nBat Job could not believe that all his troubles were sent to punish him\\nfor some particular sin or, because he had been only pretending to serve\\nGod, when he did not really love him. No Job felt that he had been\\nsincere not a hypocrite, as his friends unkindly said he was and so\\nwhen they accused him, he answered, My righteousness I hold fast, and\\nwill not let it go my heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.\\nNow Job and his friends were quite right in some things that they\\nsaid, but in others they were very much mistaken. Job s friends were\\nright in advising him to humble himself before God, and ask for pardon\\nfor afflictions are sent by God to lead his people to do this. But they\\nwere quite wrong in accusing Job of being a wicked man, and a hypocrite,\\nbecause he was afflicted for God often afflicts most those who love and\\nserve him best, in love, not in anger Whom the Lord loveth he cor-\\nrecteth. And though Job was right in saying that he had not brought\\nhis sufferings on himself by his own wickedness and hypocrisy, yet he\\nspoke what was wrong, too for he almost accused God of unkindness\\nand injustice, in afflicting him after he had so sincerely tried to serve God.\\nJob and his friends were not alone when they talked together. A\\nyoung man was sitting by, and listening to all they said but he did not\\nspeak until they were silent for they were older than he, and he thought,\\nDays should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. This\\nyoung man s name was Elihu. Humility and respect made him keep\\nsilent so long; but Elihu had much to say, for God had given him great\\nwisdom and so, when the others left off speaking, he offered to answer\\nJob himself. Elihu was angry with what had been said. He was dis-\\npleased with Job, because he had justified himself more than God; and he\\nwas displeased with his three friends, because they had found no answer,\\nand yet had condemned Job.\\nSo Elihu said, Hearken unto me, I also will show my opinion.\\nThen they all listened, in silence, to what Elihu had to say.\\nAnd how did Elihu answer them First, he reproved Job for\\njustifying himself more than God. Job had said, I am righteous, and\\nGod hath taken away my judgment; and it profiteth a man nothing\\nthat he should delight himself with God. This was accusing God of\\n19", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0317.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "290\\nTHE STORY OF JOB.\\ninjustice; it was saying that God had acted wrongly in afflicting a righteous\\nman. But Elihu said, Far be it from God that he should do wickedness,\\nand from the Almighty that he should commit iniquity for the work of a\\nman shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to\\nhis ways. Yes\\nGod is perfectly\\nholy, and perfectly\\nwise and therefore\\nhe will not, he can-\\nnot, do anything\\nwrong or unjust;\\nGod can never err,\\nnever be mistaken.\\nGod often,\\nindeed, acts in a\\nway which we can-\\nnot understand he\\noften does things\\nwhich perplex us,\\nand which seem to\\nus to be for evil\\nand not for good.\\nBut this is because\\nwe are ignorant\\nbecause we see only\\na little part of\\nGod s doings be-\\ncause we do not\\nknow, as he does,\\nall the past, and\\nall the future nor\\nTHE HAPPY DAYS OF JOB. r\\nJ see the end irom\\nthe beginning, as he can. Then, whenever we feel doubtful, and per-\\nplexed, and inclined to murmur, like Job, at what God does, let us\\nremember what Elihu said God is greater than man why dost thou\\nstrive against him for he giveth not account of any of his matters\\nand if we feel this, then we shall be willing to trust to his power and", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0318.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JOB. 291\\ngoodness, and say, as Abraham did, Shall not the judge of all the\\nearth do right\\nKlihu reminded Job of many things, which might teach him how\\nmuch greater God was than he. He spoke of the eternity of God. He\\nsaid, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his\\nyears be searched out. How can we understand all the greatness of God T\\nwhen we are ourselves poor, weak creatures, made of dust, and crushed\\nbefore the moth?\\nAnd then Blihu spoke of the works of God. He reminded Job of\\nthe light, and the thunder, and the clouds, and the rain and of the\\nwonderful way in which God orders all these things, too wonderful for Job\\nto understand, for he doeth great things which we cannot compre-\\nhend and therefore Job was to stand still, and consider the wondrous\\nworks of God.\\nAnd now the Lord himself answered Job, and spoke to him out of\\nthe whirlwind; and bade him reply to him, if he could. He said, I will\\ndemand of thee, and answer thou me. And then the Lord asked Job, if\\nhe could tell how the earth was made, and if he understood the motion of\\nthe stars, or was able to rule the sea, and the light, and the darkness.\\nAnd God spoke to him of some of the animals which he had created, and\\nof the wonderful instinct which he had given them he reminded Job of the\\ngoats, and the wild ass, and the peacock, and the ostrich, and the horse.\\nJob had seen all these animals perhaps he knew much of their\\nhabits, and their histories and he might have known, too, much of the\\nother works of God. But Job could not make one of these things, nor even\\nunderstand how they were made. He could only notice them, and admire\\nthem, and wonder at them and that was all. And if Job could not under-\\nstand the works of God, how could he understand God himself? and then\\nhow could he dare to contend with him, or to murmur at anything he did\\nJob felt all this.\\nHe felt humbled and ashamed and therefore, instead of again trying\\nto justify himself, he said, Behold I am vile, what shall I answer thee\\nI will lay my hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken, but I will not\\nanswer; yea, twice, but I will proceed no further.\\nAnd now Job became rich again in this world s wealth, for the\\nLord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came there unto\\nhim, all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0319.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "292 THE STORY OF JOB.\\nacquaintance before, and did eat bread with, him in his house, and they\\nbemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had\\nbrought upon him every man also gave him a piece of money, and every\\none an earring of gold. So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more\\nthan his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand\\ncamels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. He had\\nalso seven sons and three daughters. And lie called the name of the first\\nJemima and the name of the second, Kezia and the name of the third,\\nKeren-happuch. And in all the land were no women found so fair as the\\ndaughters of Job and their father gave them an inheritance among their\\nbrethren and so divided a portion of his property among them, as he did\\namong his sons.\\nAfter this lived Job an hundred and. forty years, and saw his sons,\\nand his sons sons, even four generations so that he is supposed to have\\nlived about two hundred years. His great age is one reason which guides\\nus to the time in which he lived, as, after the days of Moses, we read\\nof none living to so lengthened a period. So Job died, being old and\\nfull of days.\\nAnd when we behold the wonderful works of God, we should, like\\nJob, feel our own weakness and sinfulness and how thankful we should\\nbe, that this great Creator is our merciful Father too; that God is love;\\nand that he has shown his love by giving his only begotten Son, that\\nwhosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life\\nWe are also taught that it is God who can make us rich or poor,\\nand so we ought to be contented with what he sends us. When he thought\\nit right to make Job poor, how soon he lost his all and when he thought\\nit right to make him rich again, how soon he recovered his wealth. God\\ncan do everything let us trust in him, love and serve him, and then we\\nare sure that he will do everything that is best for us, and bring us at\\nlast to heaven, where God shall wipe away all tears from off all faces\\nthat is, where, what trouble soever may happen to us here, we shall not\\nhave any cause to weep any more.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0320.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "VTSTT OF THE WISE MEN", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0321.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0322.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM.\\nON the hill where Bethlehem stands there are green places where\\nshepherds feed their flocks. There are wild animals in the coun-\\ntry of Palestine. There used to be even more wild beasts there\\nthan there are now, jackals and foxes, lions and bears, hyenas, leopards,\\nand wolves. But still all night long the shepherds of Bethlehem stay out\\non the hillside, and watch to see that no harm happens to their sheep.\\nOne night, while the shepherds were watching, lo! an angel of the\\nLord stood by them, and a bright light shone round about them. And the\\nshepherds were afraid; but the angel said, Fear not: for behold, I bring\\nyou good tidings (or news) of great joy, which shall be to all people.\\nFor unto }^ou is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is\\nChrist the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the\\nbabe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly\\nthere were seen with the angel a number of the angels of heaven. And\\nthey praised God, and said, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth\\npeace, good will toward men.\\nWhen the light faded, and the song ended, and the angels had gone\\nback into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even\\nunto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord\\nhath made known unto us. So they left their sheep I dare say they\\nthought that they would be quite safe where the holy angels of God\\nhad been; and they climbed quickly over the hillside towards the little\\ntown of Bethlehem. And there, in a stable near the inn, the shepherds\\nfound Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger. It was just\\nas the angels had said.\\nThe shepherds could not keep the good news to themselves. They\\ntold it to every one they saw, and everybody wondered. And as they\\nwent along the hillside back to their sheep again, they felt so full of joy\\nabout all they had seen and heard that they went on their way thanking\\nand praising God.\\nJesus was the eldest son of his mother. And the eldest sons in\\nJewish houses belonged especially to God. When they were forty days\\nold they were taken to the Temple, and given to God. And then the\\nfather gave a priest of the Temple some money about four dollars and\\n293", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0323.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "294\\nTHE BABE OF BETHLEHEM.\\nthe priest blessed the little child in the name of the Lord, and gave it\\nback to its father: and after that the father and mother took the baby\\nhome with them again.\\nTHE HOLY FAMILY.\\nSo, now, when Jesus was nearly six weeks old, he was brought from\\nBethlehem by Mary and Joseph to the Temple at Jerusalem. I do not know\\nhow they came all that long journey of six miles, but very likely Mary", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0324.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM. 295\\nrode on an ox. That was what mothers general^ did when they came to\\nthe Temple to thank God for giving them a new little baby. The moth-\\ners nsed to take a lamb with them, or two pigeons, as a sacrifice to God.\\nMar}^ took two pigeons. She was not rich enough to buy a lamb.\\nJust at the time that Joseph and Mary and Jesus were on their way\\nto the Temple, God put it into the heart of some one else, called Simeon,\\nto go there. Simeon was a good old man who lived in Jerusalem. He was\\none of those who were longing for the Messiah to come to make every one\\nhapp}? and good, the Jews and the Gentiles too, and God had promised\\nhim that before he died his eyes should see the Messiah. Directly Mary\\nand Joseph brought the Child Jesus into the Court of the Women, Simeon\\nknew that this was the Messiah God had promised to send, and he took\\nhim up in his arms, and thanked God; and he blessed Joseph and Mary,\\nJust as Simeon was speaking, a good woman, called Anna, came\\ninto the Court of the Women. Anna was very old, about eighty-four.\\nShe lived in the Temple always, and prayed to God a great deal in the\\nnight as well as in the day. You may imagine how happy she, too, felt\\nwhen she saw Jesus Christ. She did exactly as the shepherds had done;\\nshe thanked God, and she told the good news to others in Jerusalem.\\nThat is just what we must do when we know about Jesus, and love him.\\nWe must thank God for sending him to die for us, and we must tell\\nother people also about him. After that happy day in the Temple, Joseph\\nand Mary went back with the Child Jesus for a little while to Bethlehem.\\nOn the right hand, or eastern side of Palestine, there were some\\ncountries where the people used to watch the sun and the moon and the\\nstars very carefully. If they saw anything new and strange in the heav-\\nens, they thought a great deal about it. They always thought that it\\nmeant that something wonderful was going to happen. Some of those\\npeople in the Hast thought more about the sun and the moon and the\\nstars than they did about the God who created the heavens. But some of\\nthem had learned better. They had learned from the Jews about God, and\\nabout the Messiah who was coming; and they, like the Jews, were longing\\nfor the Messiah.\\nOne day, as these wise and good men were watching the sky, they\\nsaw a bright star which they had never noticed before. And as they\\nlooked at it they felt sure that a very great King of the Jews had been\\nborn in Judaea. As soon as God whispered that secret into their hearts,", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0325.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "CHRISTMAS THE SHEPHERDS AND THE MANGER.\\n296", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0326.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM. 29f\\nthey took camels and rich presents of gold and sweet-smelling stuff such\\nas people gave to kings in those days and they loaded their camels, and\\nleft their homes, and travelled for man}- weeks till they came to Jerusalem.\\nAnd when they got there they said, Where is he that is born King of the\\nJews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.\\nWhen Herod heard about these wise men he was troubled. I told\\nyou that he had killed two of his own sons because he was afraid they\\nmight want to be king instead of him; so no wonder he was frightened\\nwhen he heard that the Messiah, the great King of the Jews, was born.\\nAnd Herod s friends were troubled too when the wise men came. And the\\nrest of the people in Jerusalem were troubled. They knew how wicked\\nHerod was, and they thought, Now Herod will do something cruel to\\npunish us, just because he has been frightened.\\nBut Herod was very cunning. He sent for the most clever priests t\\nand for other clever men, and he asked them to tell him where Christ\\nwould be born. And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judsea. They\\nhad read that in the Bible. If Herod had read the Bible, he would have\\nknown that himself. Then Herod sent very quietly for the wise men from\\nthe East, and he asked them a great many questions about when they\\nfirst saw the star. And then he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go\\nand search out carefully about the young Child, and when ye have found\\nhim bring me word, that I also may come and worship him.\\nDid Herod want to go and bow down his head before the Child\\nJesus, and call him his King, and bring him presents Ah Herod, we\\nknow better now. But the wise men believed him just then. When they\\nhad heard the king, they went away to Bethlehem, as he told them and\\nlo, the star which they saw in the Hast went before them, till it came and\\nstood over where the young Child was. And when the wise men saw the\\nstar standing still, they rejoiced with great joy. They knew that they\\nhad now found the One whom they had come so far to seek.\\nAnd when they were come into the house (I suppose there was\\nroom in the inn now) they saw the young Child with Mary, his mother,\\nand they fell down and worshipped him, and they gave him their presents\\ngold, and frankincense, and myrrh.\\nBut the wise men did not go back to Herod, to tell him that they\\nhad found Jesus. God came to them one night when they were asleep,\\nand tcld them in a dream not to go, So they went home to their own.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0327.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "298\\nTHE BABE OF BETHLEHEM.\\ncountry by another way instead. Why did not God lee them go back to\\nHerod Ah you will see.\\nAfter the wise men were gone back to their own country, the, angel\\nof the Lord came to Joseph in his sleep, and said to him, Arise, and\\ntake the young Child and his mother, and nee into Egypt, and be thou\\nthere until I bring thee word, for Herod will seek the young Child to\\nTHE CHILD JESUS IN EGYPT.\\ndestroy him. That meant to kill him. So Joseph at once got up, and took\\nthe young Child and his mother by night, and went away into Egypt.\\nWhen Herod found that the wise men did not come back to him,\\nhe was very angry indeed, and he sent his soldiers to Bethlehem, and had\\nall the baby boys killed all the children who were less than two years of\\nage. And they killed all the baby boys in the places near Bethlehem as\\nwell. And the poor mothers cried, and nobody could comfort them.\\nBut Jesus was out of Herod s way by that time. Herod had nothing\\nto do with Egypt, because Egypt did not belong to the Romans. So Jesus\\nwas perfectly safe there. The king of Egypt who was living just then was", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0328.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM. 299\\nso kind to the Jews that a very great number of them had gone to live in\\nhis country. So Joseph and Mary would be sure to find plenty of friends\\nthere, and plent}^ of work to do.\\nJoseph and Mary stayed on quietly in Egypt, waiting for the angel\\nto bring them word that it was time to go back again to Palestine. And\\none night, I think it was when Jesus was about three years old, the mes-\\nsage came which the}r were expecting. The angel of the Lord came to\\nJoseph in a dream, and said to him, Arise, and take the young Child\\nand his mother, and go into the land of Israel for they are dead which\\nsought the young Child s life.\\nDirectly God spoke Joseph obeyed. It was always so with Joseph.\\nHe got up, and he took the young Child and his mother, and went into\\nthe land of Israel. But when he came there people said to him, Herod\\nis dead, but his son Archelaus is king. And when Joseph knew that\\nArchelaus was king, he was afraid to stay in Judsea. And God spoke to\\nhim again in a dream, and told him to go back to Galilee, the part of\\nPalestine where he lived before Jesus was born. So Joseph and Mary went\\nback to Galilee, and lived in their own city of Nazareth again.\\nThe Bible does not tell us much about the time when Jesus was a\\nlittle boy, but it does give us a few stories. And a great many persons\\nhave been to Palestine, and have told us about Nazareth. Nazareth is a\\nlittle town which is built up the side of a hill. Other hills stand round\\nit and there are plenty of gardens and fields down below. Amongst these\\nfields and gardens there is a fountain, where the women of Nazareth go\\nto fetch water. Jesus must often have gone with his mother to that foun-\\ntain and I dare say that sometimes, when she was tired, he may have\\nfetched the water for her himself.\\nMost likely Mary wore a long blue dress, tied round the waist, and\\na cap with pieces of money sewn around it, and a white cloth over her\\nhead and shoulders, just as the women of Nazareth do now; and Jesus was\\nvery likely dressed in a red cap, a bright tunic, a sash of many colours,\\nand a little loose jacket of white or blue, just as the boys of Nazareth are\\ndressed now. People do not alter their way of dressing in that country as\\nwe do in England.\\nWe know that in the spring-time, wherever the Child Jesus went\\nround about Nazareth, he saw flowers and brightness. The hills and the\\nfields near there are lovely in spring with daisies, crocuses, poppies, tulips,", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0329.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "300 THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM.\\nlilies, and convolvulus, with marigolds and mignonette, and many other\\nflowers. Great butterflies and many-coloured birds fly about, little owls\\nwith great eyes make a mewing noise in the olive trees, and the lark goes\\nsinging up into the air. The very trees are like nosegays of white and\\nscarlet flowers, and are beautiful with their light and their dark green\\nleaves. In summer the sun shines down on the flowers of Nazareth, and\\nquickly withers them up, but it makes the corn and the oranges ripe, and the\\ngrapes and the figs too, and many other things that are good to be eaten.\\nWould you like to know the kind of house that Jesus lived in when\\nhe was a child? It would be very much like the houses that people see\\nin Nazareth now. The houses of Nazareth are white. Grape vines grow\\nover their walls, and doves sit and coo on their flat roofs. There is not\\nmuch inside the houses: sometimes they have only one room. There is a\\nlamp in the middle of the room, and round the walls there are waterpots.\\nThere are bright-coloured quilts there too on a shelf. People unroll these\\nquilts at night and lie down upon them. Besides these things, there are\\nmats and carpets in the house, and a bright-coloured box with treasures in\\nit, and a painted wooden stool and that is nearly all.\\nWhen the people of the house want to eat, they put a tray of food\\non the wooden stool, and they sit round the tray on the floor, and eat\\nwith their hands. That is always the way with people in Palestine; they\\nwould not know what to do with tables and chairs like ours.\\nThe streets of Nazareth are long and narrow, and they are full of\\nchickens and dogs, of donkeys and camels, of blind beggars and children.\\nThere are little shops by the side of the streets, but the tailors, the shoe-\\nmakers, the carpenters, and the coffee-grinders do not always sit in their\\nshops. They like to sit on the ground outside, and do their work in the\\nstreet, and the sellers of dates and of figs, beans, barley, oranges and\\nother things sit down in the street to sell their goods. Joseph, Mary s\\nhusband, was a carpenter, and Jesus became a carpenter; and often, I\\ndare say, they would come out of their little shop, and sit on the ground\\nwith plane, hammer, glue and saw, and work away in the narrow street,\\njust as the carpenters of Nazareth do now.\\nThere used to be in Nazareth a synagogue, a sort of church where\\nthe Jews went twice every day to pray and to hear the Bible read. We\\nknow that Jesus often went there. Most likely too he went to school, just\\nas our American boys do now, for the Jews used to be very particular", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0330.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0331.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE) DISPUTING WITH THE DOCTORS", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0332.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM. 301\\nabout their children being taught. What do you think they liked them\\nto learn first of all? The Bible. They began to teach the little children\\nthe Bible and the synagogue prayers as soon as they could speak and\\nthey thought that the little children ought to be able to read the Bible\\nwhen they were five years of age.\\nThe Jews called the Bible the Law. Their Bible was the same as\\nour Old Testament. Ours tells all about the life of Jesus Christ, and\\ntheirs could not do that. And their Bible was not printed and bound like\\nours, Avith pages to turn over. It was written out by hand, and was rolled\\nand unrolled instead of being opened and shut.\\nWhen the Jewish boys were twelve years old, they were called\\nSons of the Law, and they were allowed to go to Jerusalem for the\\nPassover. I cannot stop just now to tell you exactly what the Passover\\nwas like, and why the Jews had it. But it was a very grand time of\\noffering sacrifices to God, and it lasted a week. All of the Jews who could\\npossibly manage to go, went up to the Passover. Such a number went\\nthat there was no room for them inside Jerusalem, and they had to put\\nup tents, or build themselves little arbors, on the hills outside the city.\\nWhen Jesus was twelve years old, Joseph and his mother took him\\nup with them to the Passover. That must have been a wonderful journey\\nfor him. How pleased he must have been to see the great marble and\\ngold Temple\\nWhen the week was over, Mary and Joseph started for the journey\\nback to Nazareth. But Jesus stayed behind them in Jerusalem. Thousands\\nof people must have been leaving Jerusalem just at the very time that\\nMary and Joseph went away. Fancy what a confusion there would be\\nWhen Mary and Joseph did not see Jesus in the crush they did not at\\nfirst feel frightened. They thought, We shall find him soon with some\\nof our relatives and friends. But no. All day long they kept on\\nlooking for him in the crowd, but they did not see him. And as the\\ncrowd grew less and less when some of the donkeys and camels and people\\nwent one way, and some another and_ still they did not see their Child, they\\ngrew frightened, and the}^ went back again to Jerusalem, looking for him.\\nNext day they found him. Can you guess where he was He was\\nin one of the courts of the Temple. The Rabbis of Jerusalem had their\\nschools in the courts of the Temple. There was a verandah on the inside\\nof the walls round the Court of the Gentiles, and I suppose they used to", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0333.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "302\\nTHE BABE OF BETHLEHEM.\\nsit there. The Rabbi had a high seat, and his scholars sat on the ground\\nbefore him. Jesus was sitting in one of those schools. He was listening\\nand asking questions. Several Rabbis were there, and every one who saw\\nand heard him was astonished. They asked him questions too, and he\\nanswered them wisely and well. Nobody could understand how a young\\nboy could be so wise.\\nWhen Mary and Joseph saw Jesus sitting here, with Rabbis coming\\nall around him, they were greatly surprised. But his mother asked him\\nNAZARETH.\\nwhy he had stayed behind, and said, Thy father and I have sought thee\\nsorrowing. Mary called Joseph the father of Jesus because he had\\ntaken care of Jesus, as your father takes care of you. Jesus used to behave\\nto him exactly as if he were his father. But the Holy Spirit had taught\\nJesus that he was the Son of God as well, and that he had God s work to\\ndo in the world, and he said to his mother, How is it that ye have\\nsought me? Wist ye not (did you not know) that I must be about my\\nFather s business They did not understand that he was speaking about", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0334.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM. 303\\nhis Heavenly Father. But Mary remembered what Jesus had said, and\\nthought about it aftenvards.\\nAnd now he went back with her and with Joseph to Nazareth, and\\nobeyed them, exactly as he always had done. We do not know much\\nmore about Jesus when he was a boy, any more than we do about John.\\nBut we do know that he was always growing stronger and wiser, because\\nhe was full of the Holy Spirit of God. And we know that as he grew\\ntaller from a boy into a man he increased in wisdom and stature, and\\nin favor with God and man.\\nThe great Roman Emperor Augustus was dead, and now there was\\na very wicked emperor in Rome called Tiberius. There was no cruel King\\nHerod in Jerusalem now, but there was another bad man, called Pontius\\nPilate, whom the Jews had to obey, who was more cruel still. Pontius\\nPilate took the Jews money, and sold their fields, and put them into prison,\\nand killed them too, if he chose, when they had done nothing at all to\\ndeserve it And the Jews were more wretched than ever. They longed\\nmore than ever for the Messiah. The Rabbis, who were wise teachers,\\nand the priests could not comfort them. The Rabbis were dreadfully\\nproud, and many of the priests did not really love God. So how could\\nthey help other people\\nSome of the Jews really longed to please God. The Rabbis told\\nthem to wash their bodies, but they wanted to have clean hearts, and the\\nRabbis could not tell them how to manage that. So many of them thought,\\nWe will go away into the wilderness, (that meant, to the country places\\noutside the towns). We will leave the cruel Romans, and the proud\\nRabbis, and all the priests too, behind and we will wash often, and pray\\noften, and think about God a great deal and we will try hard to make\\nourselves holy. And numbers of the Jews did go away to the hills and\\ncaves of Judaea, and they lived long and quietly there, instead of living in\\nthe towns. I will tell you about one of the Jews who did that.\\nYou remember about the baby God sent to Zacharias and Elizabeth\\nthe child that was called John. Zacharias and Elizabeth gave John to\\nGod directly he was born. They never cut his hair, and they never let\\nhim drink wine, or eat grapes, or eat raisins. That was to show that he\\nbelonged to God. That was the way people did in those days.\\nAnd when John was old enough to understand, he gave himself to\\nGod. And as he grew still older, he made up his mind that he would.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0335.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "504 THE BABE OF BETHEEHEM.\\nleave liis home and his friends, and go away and live in a wilderness, as\\nthose other Jews had done. So he dressed himself in the poor dress that\\nthe Arabs the children of Ishmael wear, and went into the wilderness\\nand his food there was locusts and wild honey.\\nLocusts are something like large grasshoppers, and poor people in\\nthe East often eat them. They taste something like shrimps, but are not\\nso nice. There are always a great many locusts in the wilderness of\\nJudaea, with wings of many different colors scarlet, crimson, blue, yellow,\\nwhite, green, or brown wings. There are wild bees in the wilderness of\\nJudaea too, which fly about, and collect honey, and put the honey in the\\nholes of the rocks. So John was always able to find his food close at hand.\\nAnd here, in the wilderness, John stayed alone and prayed. We do\\nnot know what he said, but I am sure that he asked God to take away\\nhis sins, and to take away the sins of the other Jews, and to let the\\nMessiah come soon.\\nGod had said that John should go before the Messiah to prepare\\nthe way for him to get people s hearts ready for the Saviour. Well,\\nwhen John was in the wilderness, God told him to begin the work he had\\nto do. So John went down from the wild hills of Judsea to the River\\nJordan, which was running deep down below; and he began to preach to\\nevery one who passed by. There were many people passing by, for that\\nwas where people crossed the Jordan to get into Palestine.\\nJohn did not tell the Jews just how they were to sit, and to stand,\\nand to move, and to walk, as the Rabbis used to do. No. He said,\\nRepent! (that means, Be really sorry for your sins for the\\nkingdom of heaven is at hand. A very great many people went from\\nJerusalem, and out of all the land of Judsea, on purpose to hear John\\npreaching. And when they had heard him, some of them said to him,\\nWhat shall we do then And John told them that they were to be\\nkind to one another they were to give food to the hungry and clothing\\nto the naked.\\nSome of the people listening to John had to collect money for\\nPontius Pilate to send to Rome; they were called publicans. The publi-\\ncans said, Master, what shall we do? And John told them that they\\nmust collect money honestly and fairly. Some Roman soldiers came too.\\nThe Roman soldiers used to be allowed to knock the Jews about as much\\nas they liked, and the Jews were not allowed to complain. Those soldiers", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0336.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "JESUS BEGINS HIS WORK. 305\\nsaid to John: And what shall we do? And John told them not to be\\nrough, and not to tell lies and get people punished for nothing and he\\ntold them to be contented with their wages. To be contented means to be\\npleased with what we have got, and not to tease for anything more.\\nSome even of the proud Rabbis came down to the Jordan to John,\\nand John told these Rabbis that thejr must not be proud because they were\\nJews, but must try to be good really and truly. A great many of the\\npeople who listened to John felt sorry for the things they had done, and\\nthey told John how sorry they were, and Jobn baptized them in the river\\nJordan. Did John think that he could wash away the sins of the people\\nby baptizing them Oh no He told the people that he could only baptize\\ntheir bodies with water, but that some one else was coming who would be\\nable to baptize their hearts with the Holy Spirit. Whom did John mean?\\nIt was Jesus.\\nJESUS BEGINS HIS WORK.\\nAFTBR John had baptized a great many persons, he saw, one day,\\nsomebody quite new coming to him for baptism. That somebody\\nwas a man about thirty years old, and when John looked at him\\nhe could see in a minute that he was quite different from the rough\\nsoldiers, the cheating publicans, the proud Rabbis, and all the rest of the\\npeople who had been to him before. Yes, love and truth and goodness of\\nevery kind shone out on that man s face, and John, the holy John, felt, by\\nhis side, that he was only a sinner, and he said to him I have need to\\nbe baptized of thee, and comest thou to me\\nCan you guess who that holy man was It was Jesus. Jesus had\\ncome to be baptized before he began his work as the Messiah for two\\nreasons. He wanted to obey God in everything; and he wanted to show\\nthat he was the brother and friend of all the people whom John had been\\nbaptizing. And so, as Jesus wished it, John went into the river Jordan\\nwith him and baptized him. Jesus was praying all the time to his\\nHeavenly Father, and when he came out of the river, John saw the\\nheavens open, md the Holy Spirit of God, like a dove, coming down on\\nJesus. And lo! a voice was heard from heaven which said: This is my\\nbeloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.\\nWhen Jesus had been baptized, and was full of the Holy Spirit, he\\n20", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0337.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "306", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0338.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "JESUS BEGINS HIS WORK. 307\\ndid not go straight back to his mother and to his home in Nazareth. No.\\nHe went away into a wilderness. I dare say he wanted, like John, to\\nthink abont all the work he would soon have to do, and to be alone for a\\nlittle while with his Heavenly Father. Ah and Jesus would have some-\\nthing else too to do in that wilderness. He would have to fight with\\nSatan. God had promised Adam and Bve that Jesus would do that, and\\nthe Holy Spirit whispered in Jesus Christ s heart that the time for a great\\nbattle with Satan had come.\\nWe do not know exactly where it was that Jesus went. It must\\nhave been a very lonely place, for there were wild beasts there, and we\\nknow that wild beasts generally live as far as they can from houses and\\nmen. Perhaps he went to a wilderness near Jericho, which is full of\\nyellow and white rocks and great caves, a wilderness where no grass\\ngrows and where no trees are to be seen.\\nFor a great many days after Jesus went into .the wilderness, he did\\nnot think about eating. His mind was quite full of other thoughts. But\\nat last, at the end of forty days, he felt hungry. And then when he\\nlooked round, there was nothing to eat. All around him, on the ground,\\nthere were stones, great stones but there was nothing else at all.\\nAnd now, when Jesus was tired and hungry, and weak for want of\\nfood, Satan came to him in the lonely wilderness\u00e2\u0080\u0094 just the same as He\\ncame to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Hden on purpose to tempt him.\\nPerhaps he had come to Jesus many times before in those forty days. I\\nam not sure about that. But at all events he came now.\\nTo tempt means to try. Mother tries you sometimes, to see whether\\nyou can be trusted, and God tries us sometimes. But if God tries us it is\\nto make us better, and if Satan tries us, it is to make us worse.\\nWhen Satan came to the happy garden, how did he tempt Bve?\\nHe tried to make her take some food which God did not mean her to\\nhave. He often tempts little children like that. And that was just the\\nway he tempted Jesus now. He knew that Jesus was hungry, and so he\\nsaid If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.\\nSatan must have known that Jesus was the Son of God, as well as\\nbeing man. He need not have said If. Yes, and the Son of God could\\neasily have turned stones into bread. Doing a wonderful thing like that\\nis called working a miracle, and Jesus often afterwards worked a miracle\\nwhen he wanted to do good to other people. But he would not work a", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0339.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "308 JESUS BEGINS HIS WORK.\\nmiracle for himself. He knew quite well that his Heavenly Father would\\ngive him food when the right time came, and he was willing to wait.\\nWhen the devil found that it was of no use to tempt Jesus as a\\nman through his hungry body, he tried another plan. He knew that the\\nJews hated the Romans and wanted a king of their own, and he knew\\nthat Christ was a Jew, so he thought he would tempt him as a Jew, and\\nthis was what he did. He took Jesus to the top of a very high hill, and\\nhe showed him all the countries that belonged to the Romans. And then\\nhe said that if he would fall down at his feet, and pray to him, he would\\ngive him all those countries.\\nAh but they were not Satan s to give. Besides, Jesus had not\\ncome into the world to fight with the Romans, and to make himself King\\nof Jerusalem. He had come to fight with Satan, and to become King of\\npeople s hearts. And besides that, nothing would ever have made him\\npray to Satan. So that temptation was of no use at all.\\nSatan tried one other plan. He took Jesus to the top of the won-\\nderful marble Temple in Jerusalem, and then told him to throw himself\\ndown. He said that if Jesus were the Son of God, the angels would take\\ncare of him, and would not let him get hurt. But Jesus would not think\\nof doing such a thing as that, not even to make people see and believe\\nthat he was the Son of God. We must never do foolish and dangerous\\nthings, and say, Oh God will take care of me. That sort of faith does\\nnot please God.\\nJesus had now been tempted in three ways (i) as a man 3t\\nhungry man; (2) as a Jew; (3) as the Son of God. But it was all of no\\nuse. Satan had to go away at last, quite disappointed. He could not\\npossibly make Jesus do anything wrong. And now God s angels came to\\nbring Jesus food and everything that he wanted. It was well worth while\\nto have waited, and to have been hungry for just a little time longer, and\\nthen to be fed by angels instead of being fed by the devil.\\nJesus is sometimes called the second Adam, but the first Adam did\\nwhat Satan told him, though he had everything he wanted, and had no\\nexcuse, and the second Adam did not. Bvery time that Jesus was tempted\\nhe said, It is written, and then he told Satan something which was\\nwritten in the Bible, something that his Heavenly Father had said. That\\nis the very best way to fight Satan. The Bible is called the Sword of\\nthe Spirit, and Satan is frightened when he sees us using that Sword.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0340.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "CHRIST AND HIvS MOTHER RETURNING FROM JERUSALEM", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0341.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "CHRIST RAISING THE SON OF THE WIDOW OF NAIN", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0342.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "JESUS BEGINS HIS WORK. 309\\nLet us ask God to fill us, like Jesus, with the Holy Spirit, aud then we\\nshall soon learn how to use the Sword of the Spirit, and we too shall be\\nable to drive Satan away when he conies to tempt us. Only we must be\\nsure to read the Bible, as Jesus used to do, or else we shall never be able\\nto drive Satan away by telling him the things that God has written there.\\nJohn did not always go on baptizing in the same place. I dare say,\\nfor one thing, he was afraid that the Jews in Jerusalem would come to\\nstop him. They did one day send some priests to find out whether he\\nwas the Messiah, and to ask him what business he had to baptize the\\npeople. And John wanted to prepare everybody for the coming of Jesus.\\nSo when he had preached long enough to the people of Judsea, he went\\na long way up the river Jordan till he got to two places near Galilee\\ncalled ^Enon and Bethabara. And he preached and baptized at those\\nplaces, and the people of Galilee came to hear him and to be baptized,\\njust as the people of Judsea had done.\\nOne day, when Jesus Christ s fight with the devil in the wilderness\\nwas over, he came to Bethabara, where John was baptizing, and when John\\nsaw Jesus coming towards him, he said\\nBehold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. 1\\nThe next day John saw Jesus again, and again he said the same words\\nBehold the Lamb of God.\\nJohn called Jesus the Lamb of God because he was going to die as\\na sacrifice for our sins. Ever since the time of Adam and Kve lambs had\\nbeen killed from time to time, to remind people that Jesus would one day\\ncome to die for them. And now Jesus had come. So the Lamb of God\\nwas a beautiful name for John to give him.\\nTwo men were standing close to John when Jesus came by, and\\nthey heard what he said. The name of one of these men was Andrew,\\nand I think that the name of the other was John. Those men were called\\nJohn s disciples, because John had taught them many things. He had told\\nthem a great deal about Jesus, and now that they really saw Jesus you\\nmay imagine how delighted they felt They could not let him go out of\\ntheir sight. So they left John the Baptist and walked after Jesus as\\nclosely as they dared. Jesus knew that those two men would like to\\nspeak to him, so presently he turned round and asked them what they\\nwanted. Master, they said, where dwellest thou (that means, where\\nare you living? So Jesus invited them to come with him, and see.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0343.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "310 JESUS BEGINS HIS WORK.\\nJesus did not really live at Bethabara. His home was at Nazareth,\\nyou know. Most likely when he came to Bethabara he made himself a little\\nhut out of branches of trees just big enough to eat in and sleep in. And\\nnow he took the two disciples to his Bethabara home, and he let them stay\\nwith him the whole of the day. Oh what a happy day that must have been\\nBut Andrew was not selfish. He had a brother called Simon, and\\nhe wanted him to be happy too. So he went to find Simon, and he told\\nhim that he had found the Messiah, and then he brought him to see his\\nnew Master and Friend. So now Jesus had three disciples John, Andrew,\\nand Simon and next day he took them away with him from Betha-\\nbara to Galilee.\\nJust as they were starting, or while they were going along, Jesus\\nsaw a man called Philip, who came from the very place where Simon and\\nAndrew lived when they were at home. I dare say he was a friend of\\nthose brothers. Jesus told Philip to come with him, and he came. But\\nPhilip did something else too something that Andrew did. He went to a\\nfriend of his, a very good man called Nathanael, and he told him that he\\nhad found Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, and begged him to come and\\nsee him. How many disciples had Jesus now? Let us see. John, Andrew,\\nSimon, Philip, and Nathanael five. And I think that, very likely, John\\nhad brought his brother James to Jesus. If so, that would make six.\\nDirectly Jesus came into Galilee he was invited to come to a wedding\\nparty, at a place called Cana, and all of his disciples were asked to come\\nwith him. We should not like to ask such a number of persons all at\\nonce in our country, but the people of the Bast are very kind about\\ngiving invitations. And Jesus went to the wedding because he likes to see\\npeople happy, and loves to make them happy.\\nPeople often drink more wine at weddings and at other times than\\nis good for them, and a great many people go without any wine at all, so\\nas to set them a good example. That is a very kind and good plan. But\\nin the East it is different. The people there hardly ever take too much\\nwine. So Jesus allowed his disciples to use it, and he drank it himself.\\nThere was some wine at the wedding party to which Jesus went\\nbut presently it came to an end. I do not know how that happened.\\nPerhaps a great number of persons were invited to the wedding just at\\nthe last, on purpose to see Jesus, and they helped to drink it all up. Any\\nway the wine was all gone.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0344.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "JESUS BEGINS HIS WORK. 311\\nBut it was very awkward for the people who gave the feast to have\\nno wine left, and Mary thought to herself, If I ask my Son, he will make\\nsome more wine. Then Mary came to Jesus, and said, They have no\\nwine. Jesus knew what Mar}^ was thinking about, but he had to tell her\\nto wait and he had to make Mary understand that he could not do every-\\nthing now which she told him to do, exactly as when he was a boy. He\\nwas God s Son as well as Mary s and he had God s work to do, and he\\nmust do it at God s time.\\nBut Mary felt sure that Jesus was going to do something kind, and\\nwhen she went back, she told the servants to do whatever he told them,\\nAnd Jesus did not keep Mary and the servants waiting long. Close to\\nthe house there were six great stone jars or waterpots. Those waterpots\\nwere not very full just then. All the visitors had had to wash before\\ndinner, and they had used up a great deal of the water. But now Jesus\\nsaid to the servants, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled\\nthem up to the brim. And lo when the water was taken out of the jars,\\nit was water no longer, but wine.\\nThis was the very first miracle that Jesus did, and he did it to make\\npeople happy, and to make them believe that he was the Son of God.\\nDear children, Jesus wants you to be happy. And the very best way to\\nbe happy is to ask Jesus to go with you everywhere and always, just as\\nthose wedding people asked him to come to their party.\\nWhen the wedding party was over, Jesus and his disciples went\\naway from Cana to a town called Capernaum. The mother of Jesus went\\nto Capernaum with him, and some of his other relatives went too. Caper-\\nnaum was about thirteen miles from Cana. It was close to a lake called\\nthe Sea of Galilee. Do you know what a lake is It is a piece of water\\nwith lend all round it.\\nJesus did not stay veiy many days in Capernaum. The lovely\\nspring flowers told him that the Passover time was coming, so he went\\nup, with his disciples, to Jerusalem. On the map it looks as if Jesus went\\ndown to Jerusalem from Capernaum. But Judaea is hilly, you remember,\\nand Jerusalem is built on hills. That is why we say he went up.\\nWhen Jesus had come to Jerusalem you may be sure that his\\ndisciples and he soon went to the Temple. But what do you think they\\nsaw when they got inside the great Court of the Gentiles A regular\\nmarket was going on there. Men were selling oxen and sheep and doves", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0345.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "SI 2\\nJESUS BEGINS HIS WORK.\\nfor sacrifice. Others were sitting at little tables changing money. And\\nthere must have been plenty of noise, for people in the East shout and quar-\\nrel a great deal when they are buying or selling, or doing other business.\\nSome of the people who had come up to Jerusalem for the Passover\\nhad travelled from countries far away. Their money was not like the\\nJerusalem money, so they really wanted it changed. And the priests\\nwould only take one particular kind of money, so even the Jerusalem Jews\\nhad to go to the money-changers. But the sellers and money-changers had\\nA STREET SCENE IN JERUSALEM.\\nno business in the Courts of the Temple. How came they to be there?\\nAh they gave the priests money and the priests loved money more than\\nthey loved God. So they let the market go on.\\nWhen Jesus saw what was being done, he was angry and he made\\na whip with pieces of cord, and he drove away all the people who were\\nselling in the Temple. And he turned out the sheep and the oxen and\\nhe told the men who sold doves to take them away, and not turn his\\nFather s house into a shop. Jesus upset the tables of the money-changers", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0346.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "JESUS BEGINS HIS WORK. 313\\ntoo, and poured out their money. Those money-changers got a great deal\\nof their money by being unfair to other people. Perhaps that was one\\nreason why Jesus poured their gold and their silver away.\\nWe feel shocked about those money-changers and sellers of animals.\\nBut I am afraid that often we are very much like them. We do not take\\noxen and sheep and doves into God s house. But often we take silly\\nthoughts and idle thoughts and wrong thoughts with us. And we do not\\nchange money, and do other things like that when we go into God s house.\\nBut often when we are kneeling down, in church or at home, we begin to\\nthink about our work and our play. People who come in suppose we are\\npraying but Jesus sees into our hearts, and he whispers Send those\\nthoughts away. Do not make my Father s house a place of business.\\nJesus did a great many wonderful things when he was in Jerusalem\\nthat Passover time, and many persons saw his miracles, and thought,\\nYes, this is the Messiah. But Jesus did not trust any of those people.\\nHe knew that they did not really love him.\\nBut there was one man in Jerusalem who did want to be Jesus\\nChrist s disciple. His name was Nicodemus. He was a great Rabbi, but\\nnot proud like the other Rabbis, and he wanted to ask Jesus a great many\\nquestions. The other Rabbis and the priests did not like Jesus at all,\\nbecause he did not teach the people the same things that they did. And\\nNicodemus was quite frightened, lest those other Rabbis and the priests\\nshould see him coming to Jesus. So he came to Jesus by night in the dark.\\nWhat did Jesus say when he saw Nicodemus Did he say, You are\\nnot brave, Nicodemus I am ashamed of you; go away? Ah no! He talked\\nkindly to him, and he told him that he would have to be born again. He meant\\nthat Nicodemus must ask God to send him his Holy Spirit, and to give him\\na new heart. And then Jesus explained to Nicodemus why he had come down\\nfrom heaven. He said: God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten\\nSon, that whosoever believe th in him should not perish, but have everlasting UfeP\\nI wonder whether you can say those beautiful words. If not, I do\\nhope that some day you will learn them. Nicodemus never forgot the\\nthings Jesus taught him that night. And soon the Holy Spirit came into\\nhis heart and made it clean and new. And when Nicodemus was born\\nagain, he grew braver and braver and at last he did not care at all what\\nthe priests and the other Rabbis thought about him. No, indeed, for Nico-\\ndemus had become a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0347.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "JESUS IN GALILEE.\\nY X T HILE Jesus and his disciples were in the land of Judaea, bap-\\ntizing and teaching, and making sick people well, something\\nvery sad happened. Do you remember about Herod the Great,\\nwho was king of the Jews when Jesus was born That wicked King\\nHerod had several sons and when he died the Holy Land was divided\\ninto three parts by Augustus Caesar, the Emperor of Rome, and it was\\ngiven to three of Herod s sons. Two of those sons were called Herod,\\nlike their father. One was called Herod Antipas, and the other was called\\nHerod Philip. Galilee and Perea were given to Herod Antipas.\\nHerod Antipas ought to have been contented. Galilee was the most\\nbeautiful part of the Holy Land. But he was not contented he was\\nselfish he wanted all the good things. And he actually stole the wife of\\none of his brothers, and married her himself.\\nJohn the Baptist heard what Herod had done, and he told him that\\nit was very wicked indeed. John always told poor people about the things\\nthey did wrong, and you see he was not afraid to tell rich people even\\nkings when they had done wrong too.\\nHerod ought to have been sorry, but he was not. He was angry;\\nand he sent soldiers, who seized John and tied him fast, and carried him\\noff to a fortress of Herod s called the Black Castle by the side of the\\nDead Sea. Half of that castle was a palace, and half of it was a prison\\nand John the Baptist was shut up in the prison.\\nWhen Jesus heard that John was in prison, the Holy Spirit whis-\\npered in his heart that it was time for him to go back to Galilee. People\\nwere beginning to talk a great deal about the wonderful things he was\\ndoing, and Jesus knew that if he stayed in Judaea any longer, the Rabbis\\nor King Herod would soon try to stop him. So he went.\\nIf you wanted to go from Judaea to Galilee, the nearest way would\\nbe through Samaria. But the Jews did not like to go that way. Very\\noften they crossed the River Jordan, and went up through Perea, and then\\ncrossed the river again to get into Galilee. They did that because they\\ndid not like the Samaritans.\\nThe Samaritans used once to be heathen. And so, even when they\\nbegan to pray to God, the proud Jews would have nothing to do with\\n314", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0348.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "JESUS IN GALILEE. 315\\nthem. The Samaritans were very much disappointed about that, but they\\nthought, u Never mind, we will have a temple of our own. God will like\\nour temple better than the one at Jerusalem. So they built themselves a\\ntemple at the top of a mountain in Samaria but the Jews pulled it down.\\ni\\\\nd the Samaritans were angry with the Jews, and did unkind things to\\nthem, and the Jews did more unkind things to the Samaritans, and so it\\nwent on. The}- hated one another. The Jews would not even eat the\\nSamaritan food if they could help it.\\nBut Jesus loved them all, both the Jews and the Samaritans. And\\nwhen he had to go to Galilee, he made up his mind to pass through\\nSamaria. It was a long, rough journey, between hills, over stones, and up\\nlong rocky stairs where stinging scorpions are found. But at last they\\ncame near a town. There was a well near that town called Jacob s Well,\\nbecause Jacob made it when he lived in Shechem. Jesus was too tired to\\ngo any further, so he threw himself down to rest by the side of that well,\\nwhile his disciples went on to buy food. They did not mind eating\\nSamaritan food. Jesus had taught them better.\\nIt was the middle of the day, so I dare say Jesus was very hot, as\\nwell as tired and hungry. But he was not too hot and tired and hungry\\nto do work for his Heavenly Father. While Jesus was sitting by the well\\na woman came there to draw water. People do not go out much in hot\\ncountries in the middle of the day, and the women in the Hast generally\\ndraw water in the morning and in the evening. But this woman was\\nwicked, and I think that very likely she came in the middle of the day\\nbecause she was ashamed of herself, and did not want people to look at her.\\nBut Jesus spoke to that woman directly, although he knew how bad\\nshe was, and he asked her to do something kind for him; he said, Give\\nme to drink. The woman had a waterpot which she could let down into\\nthe water, but Jesus had nothing to draw with, and the well was deep\\nand yet she felt quite surprised that he asked her for water, and she said\\nto him, You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan. Why then do you ask\\nme for water\\nJesus said, If you knew who I am, you would have asked me, and\\nI would have given you living water. Jesus meant the Holy Spirit. He\\ngives the Holy Spirit to every one who asks him. The Holy Spirit is\\nlike water living water, because he makes our hearts clean, and because\\nhe makes them feel rested and happy. And he is better than water,", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0349.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "316\\nJESUS IN GALILEE.\\nbecause if we drink water we soon get thirsty again but the Holy Spirit\\nis ready to stay with us as long as we live.\\nThen Jesus spoke to the woman about the bad things she had done,\\nand she tried to make him talk about something else directly. But she\\ncould not stop his wonderful words. At last she said: I know that the\\nMessiah is coming. He will tell us all things. Then Jesus said to her,\\nI that speak unto thee am he.\\nJust then his disciples came up to the well, and they were very\\nl v\\nf i wkv^B\\nife..\\nWmmk\\n.f0*0P j\\nBK^lPBffifffi3\\nPB\\n^K\\ni\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Bir\\nWL\\n1\\nJf|\\n1\\n^BPv\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ^8BH\\n\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00c2\u00ab*\u00c2\u00a3*._ *io 8gd|jj\\nJESUS AND THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA.\\nmuch astonished to see him talking to the woman. The Jew men were\\ntoo proud to talk much to women, even if the women were Jews and this\\nwas a Samaritan woman And besides, Jesus was a Rabbi, a great teacher;\\nand Rabbis did not talk, even to their wives out of doors, where people\\ncould see them.\\nThe disciples did not ask Jesus any questions about why he talked\\nto the woman. They brought him the things they had been buying, and\\nsaid, Master, eat. But Jesus was so happy that he had been able to", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0350.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "IT.\\nKH 00\\no M\\nw\\nH", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0351.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "a r\\nM s\\na\\nf\\nH 1\\no\\nIs\\nto s\\nco\\nW i\\npq X\\nH\\nw l", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0352.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "JESUS IN GALILEE. 317\\nspeak good words to that poor woman that he did not feel hungry any\\nmore. He told his disciples that doing God s work was the food he liked best.\\nBut what do you think the woman of Samaria was doing now She\\nwas like Andrew and Philip, the disciples who went to find somebody else\\nto bring to Jesus. Directly Jesus had finished talking to her, she ran\\naway to fetch her friends.\\nShe was in such a hurry that she left her waterpot at the well, or\\nperhaps she left it there on purpose that all those thirsty disciples might\\nbe able to draw Avater to drink, and when she got to the town, she said\\nto the people there, Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I\\ndid. Is not this the Messiah\\nSo the Samaritans came to Jesus, and begged him to stay with\\nthem. And he came into the town and stayed with them for two days.\\nAnd a great many of the Samaritans believed on Jesus when they heard\\nhim, and the}?- said, This is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.\\nThe Christ means the Messiah.\\nNow we can see why Jesus went back to Galilee through Samaria.\\nHe wanted the Samaritans to know him and to love him. They might\\nnever have seen him if he had gone the other way. Is not Jesus loving,\\nand thoughtful, and good?\\nJesus was a missionary. The woman of Samaria was a missionary.\\nAndrew and Philip were missionaries. I hope, dear children, that all of\\nyou will be missionaries too. You can all do something or say some\\nword for Jesus even now and when you grow up, perhaps some of you will\\nbe able to go to tell the heathen about him. Jesus told his disciples, when\\nhe was talking to them at the well, that missionary work is like sowing\\nseed. Will you not then begin at once to be little sowers of good seed\\nfor Jesus\\nWhen Jesus had finished his little visit to the people of Samaria,\\nhe came into Galilee. We do not quite know where he went first, but I\\nthink most likely he went to the place where his mother lived Nazareth.\\nNazareth was his own city, where he had lived when he was a little boy,\\nand where he had worked when he was a young man. How pleased his\\nmother must have been to see him again after he had been so long in Judaea\\nGalilee is only a very small country, but when Jesus lived there it\\nwas very full of people. It had hundreds of villages and towns. The\\npeople who lived in Galilee were in the dark before Jesus came. The sua", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0353.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "318 JESUS IN GAUIvEE.\\nshone brightly on their houses every day, bnt their hearts were quite dark.\\nThey did not know what to believe, and many of them were ill and\\nunhappy. But The Light of the world is Jesus. And Jesus never tired\\nof going into those cities and villages to preach to the men and women\\nthere, and to bless the little children, and to heal the sick.\\nIn the Bast there is a dreadful illness called leprosy, and the people\\nwho have it are called lepers. No doctor can cure it. It begins with spots\\non the eyelids and on the inside of the hands, and then it spreads all\\nabout the body, and makes swellings and sore places. At last the body\\ngets so full of leprosy that the poor leper dies.\\nAt the time when Jesus lived on the earth lepers were not allowed\\nto come into cities. And they had to go about with nothing on their\\nheads, and with their dresses torn, and with their mouths covered over\\nand when they saw anybody coming they had to call out, Unclean\\nunclean That meant, Don t come near me, I am a leper. Nobody\\nwas allowed to touch a leper.\\nOne day when Jesus went into a town a leper saw him. The poor\\nman was so full of leprosy and so miserable that he felt he must come to\\nsee whether Jesus would do anything for him. He felt sure that Jesus\\ncould make him well, but oh would he have anything to do with a leper?\\nWell, he came to Jesus, and he knelt down before him, and fell on\\nhis face. People in the Bast often do that when they want something done\\nfor them. And he said, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And\\nJesus felt full of pity for the poor man, and he put out his hand and\\ntouched him, and said to him, I will be thou clean. And directly\\nJesus had said that, the leper was well. Sin is just like leprosy. A baby s\\nnaughtiness does not look very bad it is only like a little spot. But that\\nnaughtiness spreads and gets stronger as baby gets older, and nobody but\\nJesus can take it away.\\nWhen the leper was healed he was allowed to go into cities again\\namongst the people who were well. And if Jesus has washed away our\\nsins in his own blood, we are allowed to go to heaven when we die, and\\nto be with God and the angels, and with all the holy people there. I\\nwonder whether Jesus has taken away your naughty heart yet. If not,\\nwill you say this little prayer every day Create in me a clean heart, O\\nGod/ And if you really mean that prayer when you say it, Jesus will\\nmake you quite well, just as he did the leper.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0354.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "JESUS IN GALILEE.\\n319\\nJesus Christ s body must ofteu have felt very tired, for crowds\\nfollowed him about all the time. They came from Perea, aud from Judaea,\\nand from other places too, to see the wonderful new Teacher. And Jesus\\npreached to thern\\nall, and healed\\ntheir sicknesses.\\nThe most wonder-\\nful sermon that\\nwas ever preached\\nin all the world\\nis called the Ser-\\nmon on the Mount,\\nbecause Jesus sat\\ndown on a hill to\\npreach it. I think\\nthat was the day\\nJesus chose the\\nlast five of his\\ndisciples.\\nThere is a\\nmountain, or hill,\\na few miles from\\nthe Sea of Galilee,\\ncalled the Horns\\nof Hattin. People\\nwho have seen\\nthat hill think\\nthat most likely\\nJesus preached\\nthat wonderful\\nsermon there. It\\nlooks exactly like\\na great saddle, the sermon on the mount.\\nwith two pommels, or horns, on each side of it. That is why it is called\\nthe Horns of Hattin. One of the horns is flat at the top, and the saddle\\npart is flat. Most likely Jesus went to the top of the horn, and called his\\ntwelve disciples together there, because it was a quiet place and then came", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0355.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "320 JESUS IN GALILEE.\\ndown to the flat saddle part to preach, because there was plenty of rooiii\\nthere for the crowd of people to sit down.\\nThe people of Capernaum were delighted when Jesus came back to\\nthem again. They crowded to the house, as they did on that wonderful\\nSabbath evening I told you about, and Jesus preached to them, and healed\\nthem. Some Pharisees went to the house too. Presently four men came\\nalong, carrying a friend of theirs on a mat or thin mattress. They had\\nto carry him because he had palsy, and palsy is an illness that takes all\\nthe strength out of legs and arms, and prevents people from moving about\\nby themselves. We often call that illness paralysis. That sick man was\\nunhappy as well as ill, for he knew that he was a sinner.\\nThese four friends had heard about Jesus, and they were quite sure\\nthat he would make the sick man well if he saw him. But how were\\nthey to get him into the house There were a number of persons inside,\\nand all round the door there was such a crowd that it was impossible to\\nget near it. For a little while these four men looked about, and then\\nthey thought of a plan. First they went up a staircase outside the house;\\nand then they made a hole in the roof. That was very easy the roofs\\nof houses in the Hast are flat, and are often made of scarcely anything\\nelse but bits of stick and earth. And then they tied some ropes round\\nthe mattress, and let it carefully down into the large room underneath,\\njust before the place where Jesus was sitting.\\nJesus was not going to disappoint those four men. He saw that\\nthey trusted him. But he did not take away their sick friend s palsy\\ndirectly; he did something better. He said to him, Son, be of good\\ncheer (be happy) thy sins be forgiven thee. When the Pharisees who\\nwere in the room heard that, they thought to themselves, Who is this\\nWho can forgive sins but God only\\nJesus knew their thoughts, and he said, Is it easier to say to\\nthe sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee, or to say Arise, take\\nup thy bed, and .walk Then, to show that he was the Son of God,\\nand had a right to forgive sins, he said to the sick of the palsy, Arise,\\nand take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.\\nAnd strength came into the poor man s arms and legs at once. He\\ngot up, rolled up his mattress, and went away to his house, thanking and\\npraising God. He might well thank God His sins were forgiven, and\\nhis body was well. And as the crowds of people watched him walking", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0356.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "THE STORM ON THE LAKE. 321\\nalong and carrying his bed, they too praised God, an6. said, We never\\nsaw anything like this. We have seen strange things to-day. But I am\\nafraid that even then the Pharisees did not believe on Jesus.\\nTHE STORM ON THE LAKE.\\nJESUS went again into every pan of Galilee to tell people the good\\nnews that a Saviour had come. His twelve disciples went with him.\\nThree rich women went witli him too. They were called Mary,\\nSusanna, and Joanna. They bought things with their own money for\\nJesus and his disciples to eat, and they got their food ready for them\\nwhen they were tired, and waited upon them.\\nJoanna was the wife of King Herod s steward, so perhaps she was\\nthe mother of that boy who had fever the boy who was made well by\\nJesus. If so, I do not wonder that she loved to wait upon her boy s\\nFriend and Saviour. He was her Friend and Saviour too, and Susanna s\\nand Mary s, for he had made all of them well when they had been ill.\\nBut whatever the holy Jesus did, the Pharisees only hated him more.\\nOne day he sent a bad spirit out of a poor blind man who could not\\nspeak, and made him quite well. And the Jews from Jerusalem, who were\\nwatching Jesus, said that Satan had helped him to do that. Did you ever\\nhear of anything so wicked, or so silly either?\\nWhen Jesus went back to the Sea of Galilee, he preached to the\\ncrowds again out of a boat. He told them most beautiful stories. They liked\\nthese stories so much that they did not care to go away not even when it\\nwas evening. But Jesus and his disciples needed rest, so Jesus told the dis-\\nciples to go over to the other side of the lake. But even then they were\\nliindered. Some men came, and said that they wanted to be Jesus Christ s\\ndisciples. But Jesus said to them The foxes have holes, and the birds of\\nthe air have nests but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.\\nJesus meant that he had no home to call his very own, and that\\nliis true disciples must be ready to leave their homes too, if he called\\nthem. At last the boat started, and Jesus was so tired that he lay down\\nat the end, out of the way of the men who were rowing, and put his head\\nupon a pillow, and fell fast asleep. There were other little boats going\\nacross the lake with Jesus. Perhaps there was not room for all of the\\ndisciples in the same boat.\\n21", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0357.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "322\\nCHRIST AT GADARA.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0358.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "THE STORM ON THE LAKE. 323\\nSoon the wind began to blow, and it blew londer and londer. Then\\nthe waves curled over and dashed into the boat. Then more waves, and\\nthen more, till the boat was nearly full. But still Jesus slept quietly on.\\nThe disciples were afraid that their boat would sink, and they came to\\nJesus, and woke him, and said, Master! Master! we perish! Lord, save!\\nAnd Jesus arose, and told the wind to be silent, and he said to the\\nsea, Peace, be still. And suddenly the wind stopped, and the sea was\\nquite quiet. Then Jesus said gently to his disciples, Where is your\\nfaith Those disciples might have known that the boat could not sink\\nwhen Jesus was in it. The disciples were very much surprised, and they\\nfelt afraid too. And they said one to another, What manner of man is\\nthis, that even the winds and the seas obey him\\nAnd now the boat stopped. It had come to a beautiful town on a\\ndill at the other side of the lake. The town was called Gadara. The\\npeople who lived there were almost like heathen. They did one thing\\nwhich the Jews were never allowed to do. They kept pigs. When Jesus\\ncame out of the boat, there were a great many pigs on the side of the hill\\nabout two thousand.\\nJesus saw something else too. Two wild men were running down\\nthe hill to meet him. Wicked spirits had made those men wild. They\\nwere so wild that nobody could do anything with them. They would not\\nput on their clothes, and they screamed and howled, and they cut them-\\nselves with stones. Hven if they were tied fast with chains, they broke\\nthe chains off quite easily. And they were so fierce and so strong that\\nnobody liked to come near them.\\nBut when those men came near Jesus they fell down at his feet, and\\nthe bad spirits which were in them begged Jesus to let them alone. Those\\nbad spirits were Satan s servants, and they knew quite well that Jesus was\\nstronger than Satan. They knew that they would have to do whatever\\nJesus told them.\\nAnd Jesus said to one of the men, What is thy name? And he\\nsaid, My name is Legion. A legion meant six thousand soldiers but\\nthe poor man meant that he was full of evil spirits. Then those bad\\nspirits said to Jesus, If we must go away, let us go into those pigs.\\nAnd Jesus said, Go. And the wicked spirits came out of the man, and\\nwent into the pigs. And, at once, all the pigs rushed down the hill into\\nthe lake, and were drowned.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0359.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "324 THE STORM ON THE LAKE.\\nIt served the men of Gadara right to lose their pigs. They had no\\nbusiness to be keeping them. Those pigs were often used for wicked\\nheathen sacrifices to gods of wood and stone, and Jesus showed that he\\nwas not pleased about that. The men who looked after the pigs ran fast\\ninto the town of Gadara to tell all the things that had happened, and\\nevery one came out of the city to see whether it really was true. Yes.\\nThere was one of the wild men sitting quite quietly at the feet of Jesus,\\nwith his clothes on. And there was the place where the pigs had been\\neating but there was not a single pig left.\\nAnd all the people begged Jesus to go away directly. They loved\\ntheir pigs better than they loved him. There was no room for him in\\nGadara, no place where he might lay his head, even now that he was so\\ntired. So he went back again to Capernaum.\\nJust as the boat was starting, the man who was made well came to\\nJesus, and he begged him to let him stay with him always. But Jesus\\nsaid, No. Go home to thy friends, and tell them what great things the\\nLord God has done for thee. So the man stayed behind, and became a\\nmissionary to all the people he met, like the woman of Samaria; for he\\ntold them about Jesus, and about what Jesus had done for him.\\nWhen Jesus came back to Capernaum he found all the people there\\nlooking out for him. They were quite pleased that he had come back so\\nsoon. Soon a man, called Jairus, came and fell down at his feet and\\nbegged him to go to his house. Jairus had one little girl, about twelve\\nyears old, and she was dying. So Jesus and his disciples started to go to\\nJairus house, and a great crowd of people went with him.\\nThere was a woman in Capernaum just then who had been ill for\\ntwelve years. She had paid such a number of doctors for medicine that\\nall her money was gone. And the worst of it was that the doctors had\\ndone her no good. She was more ill than ever. But she heard about\\nJesus, and she believed what she had heard. She thought to herself,\\nJesus is -so good and great, that I need only touch his clothes, and I\\nshall be well.\\nSo she crept quietly with her pale face through the crowd till she\\ngot just behind Jesus, and then she put out her hand, and touched the\\nedge of his long dress. What had happened She felt suddenly well and\\nstrong again We know how that was.\\nJust at that moment Jesus turned round in the middle of the crowd", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0360.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "THE STORM ON THE LAKE. 325\\nand said, Who touched my clothes? I suppose the people thought that\\nJesus did not like to be so crowded up, for they all began to say, I\\ndidn t do it It wasn t I. Even the disciples could not understand\\nwhat Jesus meant. They said, Master, all the people are crowding thee,\\nand touching thee.\\nBut that poor, shy, frightened woman knew what Jesus meant, and\\nshe saw that he knew all about her. So she came and fell at the feet of\\nJesus before all the people, and told him what she had done. And Jesus\\nspoke comfortingly to the poor woman. He called her daughter, and he\\ntold her to go in peace. Just then some one came to Jairus, and said, It\\nis of no use to trouble the Master any more. The child is dead. Poor\\nJairus! how sad he must have felt! But Jesus said to him quickly, Do\\nnot be afraid. Only believe, and she shall be made well.\\nWhen Jesus came to the house of Jairus he heard a great noise.\\nAs soon as any one dies in the East, people come to the house, and cry\\nand howl, and play wretched music. They are paid to do that. Is it not\\na curious plan That was the noise which Jesus heard, and he asked,\\nWhy do you make this ado The little maid is sleeping. And thoo^\\nrude people laughed at Jesus just as if he did not know what he was\\ntalking about. So Jesus turned them all out. They deserved it. Death\\nis not a thing to laugh about, and it was shocking to laugh at Jesus.\\nThen Jesus took three of his disciples Peter, and James, and John\\nand Jairus and his wife and they went together to look at the child.\\nThere she was, lying quite still. Life had flown away from her body.\\nBut Jesus took hold of the little girl s hand, and said, My little lamb, I\\nsay unto thee, Arise. And life flew back to her body again, and she opened\\nher eyes, and got up, and walked. And Jesus told her father and mother\\nto give her something to eat. That was what doctors in the East used to do\\nwhen the} wanted to show that they thought a patient quite well Jesus,\\nthe Good and Great Physician, often did the same things as the other\\nphysicians of Palestine when he saw that their plans were right and good ones.\\nWhen Jesus came out of Jairus house, two blind men followed him,\\nbegging him to make them well. Jesus waited till he had got back to the\\nhouse where he was staying, and then he touched their eyes, and made\\nthem see. And then, just as they went out of the house, another man\\nwas brought in. Satan had put a wicked spirit into that man which would\\nnot let him speak.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0361.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "326", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0362.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "THE STORM ON THE LAKE. 327\\nSometimes Satan puts a bad spirit something like that into little\\nchildren s hearts, and then they will not answer when they are spoken to.\\nThey only frown, and look cross and sulky. But Jesus can send away all\\nkinds of wicked spirits. He sent away that man s dumb spirit just as\\neasily as he had sent awajr the noisy spirits at Gadara. Will you ask\\nhim to take away the sulky tempers when they come\\nThe Pharisees still kept on muttering, It is Satan who helps him\\nto do that. As if Satan would send away himself! The Pharisees could\\nnot understand Jesus loving people who were poor, or blind, or lepers.\\nThe j?- thought them all unholy and unclean, and would have nothing at all\\nto do with them. Why, those were the very people who wanted Jesus\\nChrist s help.\\nTalitha cumi the mother said.\\nAs she bent o er her darling s tiny bed,\\nAnd the baby opened her dreamy eyes,\\nAnd gazed on her mother with glad surprise.\\nTalitha acini the words so dear,\\nAnd words that the little one loved to hear,\\nSo gently the spell of her slumber broke,\\nThat the baby smiled when the mother spoke.\\nTalitha cumi the well-known word\\nOf tenderest greeting, the maiden heard,\\nAs Jesus bent o er the little bed\\nAnd laid his hand on the sleeper s head.\\nTalitha cumi my little lamb\\nAt the gentle summons the spirit came,\\nAnd the power of death in the dust was laid,\\nWhen the Saviour spoke to the little maid.\\nKing Herod Antipas had had John the Baptist s head cut off in the\\nprison, called the Black Castle, by the side of the Dead Sea. Part of the\\ncastle was a palace. It was a beautiful palace, with lovely furniture and\\na colored marble floor. One day Herod gave a grand birthday party there.\\nThe wicked woman he had married, his brother s wife, was at the party.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0363.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "328 THE STORM ON THE LAKE.\\nHer name was Herodias. Herodias hated John the Baptist because he had\\nsaid that Herod ought not to marry her. And she liked to be a king s\\nwife. She thought that was grand. So she made up her mind to have\\nJohn the Baptist killed.\\nHerodias had a daughter called Salome, who danced beautifully.\\nAnd on that birthday-party day King Herod was so pleased with Salome s\\ndancing that he said, I will give you anything you ask me for. That\\nwas a silly and a wrong promise. Salome went to her mother and said,\\nWhat shall I ask? And Herodias said, Ask for the head of John\\nthe Baptist. And Salome came back quickly, and said, I want the\\nhead of John the Baptist. I want it now. Oh, Salome Salome was\\nonly about fourteen years old, but she had learned her mother s bad ways\\nvery fast.\\nNow, dear children, it is generally wrong to break a promise. But\\nit is not wrong to break a wicked promise. It is wrong to make it.\\nHerod ought to have broken that promise. He was sorry he had made it,\\nbut he was afraid of what other people in the party would think if he\\ndid not do what he had said. So he actually sent to the prison, and had\\nJohn the Baptist s head cut off to give to that d_rmng girl.\\nJohn the Baptist s disciples took up their master s body (I suppose\\nit was thrown over the wall of the castle) and buried it. And then they\\nwent and told Jesus what had happened. That was the very best thing\\nthey could have done. I am sure that Jesus comforted them, and made\\nthem feel happy again. But Herod was not happy. He knew he had\\ndone a wicked thing, and he felt frightened. But he did not ask God to\\nforgive him.\\nAnd now Jesus Christ s twelve disciples came back from their mis-\\nsionary journey. They had a great deal to talk about, and they were\\ntired. But there were always so many people coming to see Jesus that\\nthey could get no quiet time at all, no time even to eat.\\nThey were all at the Lake of Galilee again. And Jesus told them\\nto come away with him into a desert place, and rest a while. That desert\\nplace was on the other side of the lake, near a town called Bethsaida,\\nwhere Peter, and his brother Andrew, and Philip lived once upon a time*\\nThe desert was a nice grassy place and there were no houses there, no\\nshops, no people.\\nThen Jesus and his disciples got into a boat as quietly as they", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0364.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "THE STORM ON THE LAKE. 329\\ncould, and went away. But some people near the lake caught sight of the\\nboat, and they saw who was in it and they ran, ran so fast along the\\nshore of the lake that they got to the desert before Jesus was there. It was\\nnearly Passover time, the time when everybody went up to Jerusalem. And\\nsoon an immense crowd came round Jesus. The desert place was not a desert\\nany more. No it was full of people. And when Jesus saw all these lost\\nsheep he felt very sorry for them, and he began to teach them many things.\\nBy and by it got late, and the disciples came to Jesus, and said,\\nIt is late, and this is a desert place. Send the crowds away, that they\\nmay buy some food, and find a place to sleep in. But Jesus said, They\\nneed not go away. Give them some food yourselves. And he said to\\nPhilip, Where shall we buy food, that these people may eat Jesus\\nknew very well w r hat he was going to do, but he asked Philip just to see\\nwhat he would say. And Philip said, Two hundred pennyworth of bread\\nwould not be enough for them, for every one of them to take a little.\\nJesus said, How many loaves have you Go and see. And\\nAndrew said, There is a boy here with five barley loaves and two fishes\\nbut what are they among so many? And Jesus told him to bring the\\nloaves and fishes to him. Then Jesus said, Make the people sit down.\\nSo the disciples arranged the crowds in rows on the grass. And when\\neverv one was ready, Jesus took the five loaves and the two fishes in his\\nhands, and he blessed them, and divided them, and gave them to the dis-\\nciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.\\nAnd there was plenty for everybody. Jesus made those loaves and\\nfishes last out till everybody had had enough. And then he said, Gather\\nup the fragments (that means the little pieces) that are left, that nothing\\nbe lost. And the disciples picked the little pieces up, and put them\\ntogether in baskets. And there were twelve large baskets full more than\\nthey had at first.\\nYes, Jesus can make corn grow and fishes swim and he could\\nmake food last out in that wonderful way. But all the same, he would\\nnot allow anything to be wasted. Will you remember that, dear children,\\nand try not to waste anything food or anything else There were five\\nthousand men in that grassy place, and a great many women and children\\nbesides. And when the people saw the miracle that Jesus had done they\\nsaid, This must be the Messiah and they wanted to make him their\\nking the king of their country, but not the king of their hearts.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0365.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "330\\nTHE STORM ON THE LAKE.\\nAnd Jesus, you know, did not wish to be made a king like Herod\\nor Caesar. He was God, so lie was King of kings already. So lie made\\nhis disciples go away at once in the boat to the other side of the lake,\\nand he sent the crowds away himself. I suppose the crowds were trying\\nto get the disciples to\\nhelp them to make\\nJesus a king.\\nWhen Jesus was\\nalone, he went up into\\na mountain and prayed.\\nHow glad he must have\\nbeen to have a little\\ntime quite quietly with\\nhis Heavenly Father\\nBut now a great wind\\nbegan to blow, and the\\nwaves on the Lake of\\nGalilee began to toss\\nabout. The disciples\\nrowed hard, but they\\ncould not get on the\\nwind kept trying to blow\\nthem back. But Jesus\\nsaw them, and when the\\nnight was nearly over,\\nhe came to them walk-\\ning on the sea.\\nWere not the dis-\\nciples pleased when they\\nsaw Jesus No they\\nwere actually fright-\\nened. They had never\\nseen him walking on the water before, and they could not understand who\\nhe was, and they cried out for fear. Oh, foolish disciples But Jesus was\\nsorry for them, and he spoke kindly to them directly, and said, Be of\\ngood cheer (that means, Be glad It is I. Be not afraid.\\nAnd Peter said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the\\nCHRIST SAVES PETER FROM SINKING.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0366.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "THE STORM ON THE LAKE.\\n331\\nwater. And Jesus said, Come. And Peter jumped out of the boat, and\\nwalked on the water to go to Jesus. But soon Peter began to think of the\\nrough wind and waves instead of thinking about Jesus, and then he could\\nnot get on at all,\\nand he began to\\nsink in the water,\\nand called out,\\nLord, save me!\\nA.nd Jesus put out\\nhis hand directly,\\nand caught him,\\nand said, O thou\\nof little faith where-\\nfore didst thou\\ndoubt? Then they\\nboth came into the\\nboat, and the wind\\nstopped blowing.\\nAnd the disciples\\nfell down at the feet\\nof Jesus, and said,\\nThou art the Son\\nof God.\\nThen, all at\\nonce, the} saw that\\ntheir boat was close\\nto the land. Jesus\\nhad brought it\\nthere. It was very\\nearly in the morn-\\ning when Jesus and\\nthe disciples got out\\nof the boat, but peo-\\nple found out that they had come back, and they ran at once to Jesus\\nand those people were not selfish. They sent and told their friends who\\nlived quite a long way off about the Saviour; and those friends came too,\\nand they brought sick people with them, h 7 ing on mats, and they asked\\nI AM THE BREAD OF LIFE.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0367.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "332 THE STORM ON THE LAKE.\\nJesus to allow those sick persons just to touch him. And every one who\\ntouched him was made perfectly well.\\nThe crowds near Bethsaida could not understand what had become\\nof Jesus. They had seen the disciples go away in the boat the night\\nbefore, but Jesus was not with them then. Where could he be? They\\nwanted him to give them some more food to eat. They had forgotten all\\nabout his beautiful words.\\nAt last some of those people came over to Capernaum in boats to\\nlook for Jesus, and when he saw them he said, Ye are looking for me\\nbecause ye did eat of the loaves.\\nAnd then he told them that their souls wanted food even more than\\ntheir bodies and he said that God would give them bread from heaven if\\nthey really wanted to have it. What does bread from heaven mean\\nAh, it means Jesus. Jesus said am the Bread of Life.\\nA little while after that Jesus preached in the synagogue in Caper-\\nnaum about being the Bread of Life. But the Jews there did not\\nunderstand him they did not want to understand him and a number of\\nhis friends went away after they had heard that sermon. They would\\nhave nothing more to do with him. They all wanted a king, and bread\\nfor their bodies, you see, like the poor hungry people who sat down on\\nthe grass. But they did not want a Saviour, and food for their souls.\\nA lad hath here five barley loaves\\n(Feeble the rising faith and dim),\\nBut what are they? Yet at his word\\nThey brought the barley loaves to him.\\nHow honored was the lad whose store\\nThe gracious Master deigned to spread,\\nFor lo that morsel in his hands\\nSupplied five thousand men with bread.\\nSmall is our store, nor have we power\\nTo give the multitude to eat,\\nBut we may bring our barley loaves,\\nAnd lay them at the Master s feet.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0368.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "SAMARITAN STORIES. 333\\nHe needs them not, yet will he deign\\nHis humblest servant s work to bless,\\nAs when the lad s five barley loaves\\nFed thousands in the wilderness.\\nSAMARITAN STORIES.\\nAS Jesus and his disciples went along, they saw ten lepers standing\\na long way off. Poor men they did not dare to come near Jesus,\\nbut they cried out in the strange voice which lepers have, Jesus,\\nMaster, have mercy on us. Nine of the lepers were Jews, and one was a\\nSamaritan. And Jesus was sorry for them all, and said, Go, show your-\\nselves to the priests.\\nWhen the lepers heard that, they felt sure that Jesus meant to heal\\nthem, for lepers did not show themselves to the priests till they were well.\\nSo they turned straight round to go to the priests, and lo! as they were\\ngoing along the road, they suddenly felt that they were strong and well\\nagain. When the Samaritan felt in himself that the leprosy had gone\\naway, he turned back, and threw himself down at the feet of Jesus, and\\nthanked him, and thanked God too for all his goodness. But none of the\\nnine Jews came back to thank Jesus.\\nA few days after that a man came to Jesus, and asked how he could\\nget to heaven. Jesus said that he must love God with all his heart, and\\nhis neighbor as himself. Then the man said, Who is my neighbor?\\nSo Jesus told him a story, which I will tell you now, because it was\\nabout a Samaritan.\\nA man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho such a rough road;\\nthat is, with great rocky steps leading down, down, down. There are\\nrobbers there, and they found the man, and took off all his clothes, and\\nhurt him so badly that he nearly died. Soon a priest passed by, but he\\ntook no notice of the poor man he only crossed over to the other side of\\nthe road. Then a servant of the Temple came and looked at him, and\\ncrossed over to the other side.\\nBut a Samaritan who was travelling that way came where the poor\\nman was and he felt very sorry for him, and went to him, and poured\\noil and wine on the places where the thieves had hurt him, and tied them\\nup carefully and then he put the man on his own beast, a horse or a", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0369.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0370.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "SAMARITAN STORIES. 335\\ndonkey, or a camel, and brought him safely to the inn near by. The\\nSamaritan took care of the poor man that night and next day, when he\\nhad to go away, he gave some money to the man who took care of the\\ninn, and said, Take care of him, and if j^ou spend any more money I\\nwill pay 3^011 when I come back.\\nWhen Jesus had finished that story he said, Which now of these\\nthree was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? You can\\nanswer that question, I think and I hope that you will go and do like\\nthat Samaritan. While Jesus was travelling along from Capernaum to\\nJerusalem, the Jews at the Feast of Tabernacles were looking all about the\\ncity for him, and asking one another, Where is he? Some said, He\\nis a good man but others said, No, he is not he tells the people things\\nthat are not true.\\nOne da} T about the middle of the Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus was\\nfound sitting and teaching quietly in the Temple, just as he always did.\\nAnd as the Jews listened to his words they were greatly puzzled and said r\\nHow does this man know so much, when no one has taught him?\\nThen Jesus explained that it was God who had taught him and he told\\nthe Jews that God would teach them too if they wanted to learn.\\nBut Jesus knew that those Jews did not want to learn he knew\\nthat even now they were making plans to take away his life. So he said.\\nto them, suddenly, Why go ye about to kill me The Jews were very-\\nmuch ashamed when they found that Jesus knew their thoughts. They\\ndid not know what to say, so they were rude, and angry, and said, Thou,\\nhast a devil. Who goeth about to kill thee?\\nBut some of the people who were standing by began to think,\\nPerhaps this really is the Christ. And when the priests and the\\nPharisees knew that, they sent some of the Temple police to take Jesus\\nprisoner. It was now the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles. It was\\nthe last day that the people would go down to the stream of water near\\nthe Temple hill with the priests, singing, Ho, every one that thirsteth,.\\ncome ye to the waters. And they wanted something better than that\\nwater, something that they could carry away with them they wanted living\\nwater for their thirsty hearts. And as Jesus saw the crowds, he stood and\\ncried, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.\\nAre your hearts thirsty, dear children Do you want the living\\nwater the Holy Spirit which Jesus gives to svery one who asks him to*", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0371.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "336 SAMARITAN STORIES.\\ndo so If so, come unto Jesus, aud drink. As the Temple police listened\\nto the beautiful words which the Lord Jesus spoke, they felt, It is no\\nuse, we cannot take that man prisoner. And they came back to the\\npriests and the Pharisees who sent them.\\nWhen the priests and Pharisees looked up, and saw that Jesus was\\nnot there, they said, Why have ye not brought him And the officers\\nanswered, Never man spake as this man. The priests and Pharisees\\nwere disappointed, and said rude and angry things to the police. Then\\none of the Rabbis, called Nicodemus the Rabbi who came to Jesus by\\nnight said to the others gently, Would it not be well to listen to Jesus,\\nand to see what he does, before you find fault with him It was all of\\nno good. The priests and Pharisees only turned round now to Nicodemus,\\nand were rude to him too. They did not want to believe in Jesus.\\nDid Jesus come back the next day to the Temple? Oh yes. He\\nknew that the Jews could do him no harm till God s time had come.\\nVery early in the morning he was there, and the people crowded round\\nhim directly they saw him, and he sat down and taught them again. I\\nwill tell you just one thing that Jesus told the people that day. He said,\\nam the Light of the worldP\\nThe Feast of Tabernacles was quite over now. The beautiful illu-\\nmination in the Court of the Women, which lighted up the whole city,\\nwould not be lighted up any more for a year. But Jesus lights up the\\nhearts of those who love him, and makes them bright, and happy, and\\nholy; and he is ready to be the Light of every one in the world who will\\nlet him. But the Jews would not let Jesus shine into their dark hearts.\\nAs he went on talking, they argued with him, were very rude to him, and\\nat last took up stones to throw at him. Then Jesus hid himself, and went\\nquietly away.\\nWe can t be quite sure where Jesus went. Most likely it was to a\\nvillage called Bethany. Just opposite the Temple hill, Mount Moriah,\\nthere was another hill, called the Mount of Olives. Bethany was right\\nover on the other side of the Mount of Olives, and Jesus often walked\\nover the hill to see some friends of his there, one brother and two sisters\\nwho lived in the village.\\nThe names of those friends of Jesus were Mary and Martha and\\nLazarus. Jesus loved them very much, and they loved him. But Mary\\nand Martha showed their love in very different ways. Mary sat as quiet", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0372.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "22\\nJESUS AND THE SISTERS OE BETHANY.\\n337", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0373.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "338 SAMARITAN STORIES.\\nand still as possible when Jesus came in, and listened to every word that\\nhe said and Martha wanted so ranch to make him happy and comfortable\\nthat she ran about the whole time doing things for him, instead of listen-\\ning to the beautiful words he was saying.\\nOne day when Martha saw Mary sitting still listening to Jesus, she\\nfelt so vexed that she came and asked Jesus to speak to her and make\\nher come and help. Martha was so much vexed with Mary that she\\nspoke a little crossly even to Jesus. Then Jesus explained gently to\\nMartha that he did not want her and Mary to be busy doing things for\\nhim all the time. The grand dinners which kept Martha so busy would\\nsoon be forgotten but the words which Mary was listening to could never\\nbe taken away from her.\\nOne day the Pharisees turned him out of the synagogue. He told\\nthem they could see things with their eyes, but they could not see that\\ntheir hearts were full of sin. How could blind people like that look after\\nthe poor lost sheep among the Jews?\\nThen Jesus preached one of the most beautiful little sermons he\\never preached at all. I will tell you a bit of it. He said: I am the\\ndoor of the sheep by me if any man enter in he shall be saved. I am\\nthe Good Shepherd; the Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. I\\nam the Good Shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine and\\nI lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not\\nof this fold them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and\\nthere shall be one fold under one Shepherd.\\nThe other sheep Jesus spoke about meant the Gentiles, the people\\nwho are not Jews. It meant you and me, and it meant all the heathen.\\nHe has called us. He is calling the heathen. And many sheep, many\\nquite little lambs, have heard the voice of Jesus, and are following him.\\nHave you heard him calling you Have you followed him If not, oh\\nmake haste to go after him now.\\nThat beautiful sermon makes me think of a kind of little story\\nwhich Jesus once told the people who were crowding around him. He\\nsaid: What man of you having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them,\\ndoth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that\\nwhich is lost until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it\\non his shoulders rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together\\nhis friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0374.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "SAMARITAN STORIES.\\n339\\nfound my sheep which was lost. I say unto you that likewise joy shall\\nbe m heaven over one sinner that repenteth.\\nBut the Jews of Jerusalem did not repent. They could not be sorry\\nfor their sins, because they did not think they had any. They did not\\nlisten to the voice of the Good Shepherd because they were not his sheep.\\nI do not know what Jesus did next. Perhaps he went to Perea, on the\\nother side of the River Jordan, to preach and to teach. Perhaps he stayed\\nin Bethany. But in two or three months he came to the Temple again\\nfor another feast.\\nBut the Jews were not sorry even now; they would not listen to\\nJesus even now; they behaved worse than ever, and took up stones to\\nthrow at him. This time Jesus went quite away from Jerusalem across\\nthe River Jordan to Perea, and he never came back again to Jerusalem till\\nhe came back to die.\\nJesus came back once to Bethany from Perea. Soon after Jesus had\\ngone away from Bethany his friend Lazarus became very ill. How much\\nMartha and Mary longed for Jesus now! They thought, If Jesus were\\nhere, our brother would not die and they sent a messenger to him to\\nsay, Lord, he whom thou lovest is sick. When Jesus heard that, he\\nsaid, This sickness will be for God s glory. It will not end in death.\\nAnd he stayed on quietly where he was for two days longer. Then he\\nsaid to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again. And they did not", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0375.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "340 SAMARITAN STORIES.\\nwish hiin to go, and said, Lord, the Jews of late sought to stone thee,\\nand goest thou there again Then he told them, Our friend Lazarus\\nsleepeth but I go that I may awake him out of his sleep. That sur-\\nprised the disciples. They said, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.\\nThen Jesus told them plainly that Lazarus was dead.\\nWhen those who love Jesus die, their death is called a sleep. That\\nis why Jesus said that Lazarus was sleeping. But Jesus had said a little\\nwhile before that the sickness would not end in death and yet now Lazarus\\nwas dead. How was that What did Jesus mean Ah very soon you\\nwill see. When the disciples found that Jesus really meant to go, they\\nsaid that they would go too, and die with him. They knew how much\\nthe Jews hated Jesus. They knew that they were only waiting for a\\nchance to kill him. But Jesus was never afraid to go anywhere where it\\nwas his duty to go and the disciples loved Jesus, so that made them brave.\\nIt took Jesus quite a day to get to Bethany, and by this time\\nLazarus had been in the grave for four days. The two sisters were in the\\nhouse. A number of Jews were with them. They had come over from\\nJerusalem to sit with Martha and Mary, and to try to comfort them. That\\nis always the plan in that country. Presently somebody came to Martha,\\nand said to her quietly, Jesus is coming. Directly Martha heard that,\\nshe got up, and went out to meet him. And when she saw Jesus, she\\nsaid, Lord, if thou hadst been here my brother would not have died but\\nI know that even now whatever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it\\nthee. Jesus said to her, Thy brother shall rise again. And Martha\\nsaid, I know that he shall rise again at the last day.\\nAnd Jesus said to Martha, I am the resurrection and the life he\\nthat believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whoso-\\never liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this\\nAnd Martha said, Yes, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son\\nof God, the Messiah the Jews are expecting. Then Jesus asked to see\\nMary, and Martha came back and told her very quietly that Jesus had\\ncome and Mary jumped up quickly and went out. When the Jews saw\\nthat, they said, She is going to her brother s grave to weep there, and\\nthey too went after her, crying.\\nWhen Mary saw Jesus, she said, as Martha had done, Lord, if\\nthou hadst been here, my brother would not have died. When Jesus saw\\nhow unhappy Mary and the Jews were, he too felt very sad, aud said,", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0376.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "SAMARITAN STORIES.\\n341\\nWhere have ye laid him? And they said, Lord, come and see. And\\nthen Jesus wept. See how he loved Lazarus, said the Jews and they\\nwondered that Jesus had let his friend die.\\nNow they had come to the grave. It was a hole in the side of a\\nrock, and there was a heavy stone over it. Jesus said, Take ye away\\nthe stone and they rolled it away. Then Jesus lifted up his eyes, and\\nthanked God that he had heard his prayer and given him back the life of\\nLAZARUS, COME FORTH.\\nLazarus. And then he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.\\nAnd the man who had been dead came out of the cave alive. He was all\\nwrapped round with white linen, and could not move very well, because\\nin that country it was the plan to wrap dead bodies up in long white\\nclothes, with sweet-smelling stuff inside. But Jesus told the people\\nwho were standing round to unfasten the pieces of linen, and to let\\nLazarus go home.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0377.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "342 SAMARITAN STORIES.\\nSo the sickness of Lazarus had not ended in death after all. It was\\njust as Jesus had said, it had been for the glory of God.\\nOne Sabbath day, when Jesus was teaching in the synagogue, he\\nsaw a poor woman who was doubled up with rheumatism. You have seen\\npeople, perhaps, whose hands are quite drawn out of their proper shape\\nwith rheumatism but this poor woman s whole body was bent by it, so\\n;hat she could not possibly stand upright. And when Jesus saw her he\\ncalled her to him and laid his hands on her, and told her that he had\\nmade her well, and she was well directly. Then the woman praised God\\nfor his goodness and love, and the people of the country were glad,\\nand praised God.\\nAnother Sabbath day came, and a Pharisee asked Jesus to come and\\neat at his house. While Jesus was there, a poor man came in who was\\nall swollen with an illness called dropsy, and the Pharisees watched Jesus\\nto see whether he would make him well. But they need not have watched.\\nThey might have known beforehand that Jesus would be sure to make him\\nwell, whether it was the Sabbath or whether it was any other day. And\\nwhen Jesus had healed the man and sent him away, he turned to the\\nPharisees, and said, If any of you had an ox or an ass which had fallen\\ninto a pit, would you not pull it out at once on the Sabbath day Of\\ncourse they would, and a man is worth more than an ox or an ass. The\\nPharisees were ashamed when they saw how foolish they had been, but\\nthey were not really sorry.\\nIn that country it was the plan for the Jews to bring their children\\nto the Rabbis to be blessed, and as Jesus was a great Rabbi, I dare say\\nthat little children had often been brought to him that he might put his\\nhands upon them and pray. But one day, when the mothers of Perea\\nbrought their little ones to Jesus, the disciples found fault with them for\\ncoming, and tried to keep them away.\\nWhy was that Perhaps it was because Jesus was tired, or perhaps\\nit was because the children looked dirty and wretched. In the pictures of\\nJesus blessing the little ones, the children are made to look plump, pretty,\\nand rosy but I dare say that they were really poor babies with scarcely\\nanything on, and with very sore or quite blind eyes, and poor thin little\\ngirls and boys with dreadful diseases all over them. For mothers in the\\nEast do not understand at all how to take care of their children, and,\\nthough they love them very dearly, they neglect them very much indeed.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0378.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "SAMARITAN STORIES.\\n343\\nBut when Jesus saw what the disciples were doing he was much\\ndispleased, and said to them Suffer little children, and forbid them not,\\nto come luito me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.\\nAnd he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and\\nblessed them. It did not matter to him whether they were clean or dirty,\\nsick or well, fretful or good. He just gathered all those little lambs with\\nhis arms, and folded them in his bosom. But I can t help thinking that\\nCHRIST BLESSING LITTLE CHILDREN.\\nhe took up the most wretched ones first, and held them the most closely\\nand the longest. He then blessed and prayed for the children and went away.\\nThis is one of the most touching scenes described in the Gospel\\nstory. Christ was fond of the little ones he would not send them away\\nwithout his blessing. He knew they would soon grow to be men or\\nwomen, and the lessons taught them in childhood would never be forgotten.\\nJesus loves the children now as much as he did when upon earth, and is\\nready to receive them when they come to him.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0379.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "LAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM.\\nTHE people in Jerusalem heard that Christ was coining, and crowds\\nof them poured out to meet him. They carried boughs of palm-\\ntrees in their hands, and waved them, and cried Hosanna, just as\\nthey always did at the Feast of Tabernacles. Hundreds of years before\\nthis God had said that Jesus, the King of the Jews, should come one day\\nto Jerusalem riding on a young ass. And Jesus knew now that the time\\nhad come. So he sent two of his disciples to a village a little further on\\nto fetch a young ass and its mother.\\nThere is a quick way to that village, and there is a long, easy\\nway so Jesus could go round the long way, and meet the crowds, while\\nthe disciples went the quick way, and got the ass all ready, and met Jesus\\non the road. You may be sure that the disciples went as fast as they\\ncould. And there, in the village, just where Jesus had told them to look,\\nthey found the young ass and its mother. Just as they were untying\\nthem, the people they belonged to said, What are you doing? But\\nwhen the disciples said, The Lord has need of them, they let them\\ngo directly.\\nThen the disciples brought the asses to Jesus, and they spread their\\nlong, loose outside dresses on the back of the young ass that Jesus might\\nsit upon it. And the people in the crowd took off their long, loose dresses\\nand laid them on the ground that Jesus might ride over them. They do\\nthat in Palestine now sometimes. And they cut down branches of trees,\\nand threw them down too on the ground, and they sang a beautiful song:\\nHosanna Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord I\\nPeace in heaven, and glory in the highest. Why that was almost\\nexactly the same thing that the angels said when Jesus was born.\\nAs the crowds moved along, they talked about how Jesus had raised\\nLazarus from the dead. It was hearing about that that had excited them\\nso much, and had made them come to meet Jesus. Presently Jesus came\\nto a part of the Mount of Olives where he could see the beautiful city of\\nJerusalem and the wonderful Temple straight before him and as he\\nlooked at them, he wept aloud.\\nWhy did Jesus weep? Was it because the Jews were going to kill\\nhim Yes but he was not weeping for himself, but for the Jews. He\\n344", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0380.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "THE LAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM.\\n345\\nWept because they loved their sins, and hated their Saviour. He wept\\nbecause he knew that God would have to punish them. He knew that in\\nbut a very few years the Romans would come and fight against Jerusalem,\\nand burn down that\\nbeautiful Temple,\\nand kill thousands\\nof the Jews, or carry\\nthem away as slaves.\\nWere not these\\nthings enough to\\nmake the Lord\\nJesus weep\\nWho is\\nthis the people\\nin Jerusalem asked,\\nwhen they saw Jesus\\nand the crowds\\nwhich went before\\nand followed him.\\nAnd the crowds told\\nthem that he was\\nJesus, a prophet\\n(that means, you\\nremember, a great\\npreacher) of Naza-\\nreth of Galilee.\\nAnd now Je-\\nsus went into the\\nTemple. There, in\\nthe Court of the\\nGentiles, just as\\nwhen he began his\\nwork three years Christ s entry into Jerusalem.\\nbefore, Jews were buying and selling and money-changing, and shouting\\nand quarreling, and making a noise. If any poor Gentile had tried to say\\nhis prayers there, I am sure he could not have attended to what he was\\nsaying. Jesus just looked round at everything and everybody; and then,", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0381.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "846 THE LAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM.\\nas it was getting towards evening, lie and his twelve disciples went quietly\\nback to his friends at Bethany.\\nIt was now just four days before the Passover. Next morning Jesus\\nwalked with his disciples from Bethany to Jerusalem, and as he went\\nalong he began to feel hungry, just as you do if you go out early in\\nthe morning.\\nNow there were a number of fruit-trees growing near Bethany, and\\nanybody was allowed to gather and eat the fruit, just as people can do\\nnow in Kashmir. So when Jesus saw a fig-tree covered over with leaves,\\nhe went up to it to look for some figs. It was not really quite the right\\ntime for figs just yet; but figs used to come first on the fig-trees, and\\nleaves afterwards; so when Jesus saw a fig-tree covered with leaves, he\\nkinew there ought properly to be some fruit there too. But, no that fig-\\ntree was like the Pharisees it was only pretending. It looked better than\\nthe other trees, but there were no figs on it at all. And Jesus said that\\nthere never should be any more fruit upon it; and in a very few hours it\\ndied. The tree knew no better. Jesus did not want to punish the tree.\\nBut he did want to give his disciples a lesson about not pretending to\\nbe better than they were, like the Pharisees.\\nWhen Jesus got to Jerusalem, he went into the Temple; and there,\\nin the Court of the Gentiles, the people were buying and selling and\\nmaking a noise, just the same as the evening before. A number of people\\nwho did not want to pray at all were walking through the Temple court,\\nbecause it was a quick way to get from one side of Jerusalem to another.\\nJesus was not pleased. He said they must not do it any more.\\nAnd he sent away the people who were selling too, and those who\\nwere buying; and he threw down the tables where money was being\\nchanged, and the seats of those who were selling doves; and he said to\\nthe people in the court, My house shall be called of all nations a house\\nof prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.\\nJesus wanted the Gentiles to have a quiet place to pray in as well\\nas the Jews, you see; but the Jews only thought of themselves. Jesus\\nthought of every one. The blind and the lame came to him in the\\nTemple, and he made them, well; and when the little children in the\\nTemple cried, Hosanna to the Son of David, he was pleased to hear\\ntheir song. But the priests were very angry. Why were the priests\\nangry? What did Hosanna to the Son of David mean? Why, it", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0382.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "THE LAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM.\\n347\\nmeant, Save us, Jesus our King. The priests could not bear to hear the\\nchildren call Jesus their King, and ask him to save them. And Satan is\\nvery angry now when he hears a little child say, Save me, O Jesus, my\\nKing. But Jesus is pleased. That night again Jesus went to Bethany. It\\nwas now three days\\nbefore the Passover.\\nNext day Je-\\nsus must have o-ot\\no\\nvery, very tired.\\nThe priests, and the\\nPharisees, and the\\nfriends of Herod all\\ntried, one after the\\nother, to quarrel\\nwith him, or to make\\nhim say something\\nwrong. But it was\\nall of no use. Jesus\\nanswered all their\\nquestions so wisely\\nand so well that at\\nlast they did not\\ndare to ask him\\nan3^thingmore. But\\nthe priests, and the\\nPharisees, and the\\nfriends of Herod\\ncould not answer the\\nquestions that Jesus\\nasked them. That\\nday Jesus told them\\nexactly what he thought of all their wicked ways and unholy thoughts.\\nBut now I will tell you something which must have pleased Jesus.\\nWhen people wanted to give money to the Temple, they came up into the\\nCourt of the Women. There were thirteen boxes there, each in the shape\\nof a trumpet. Jesus sat for a while by those boxes, and watched the\\npeople who were putting in money. Many rich men came, and put in\\nTHE WIDOW GIVING HER MITES.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0383.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "348\\nTHE EAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM.\\na great deal, but presently a widow came (a poor woman whose husband\\nwas dead), and she only put in two tiny bits of money. Nobody was\\nallowed to put iu less than that. And yet, what do you think? Jesus\\nsaid that that poor widow had put in more than all the rich people, for\\nshe had given all the money that she had, but the rich men had only\\ngiven what they could spare very well.\\nAnd another thing must have pleased Jesus which happened just\\nabout the same time. Some Gentiles came to the Temple and said to one\\nof the disciples, called Philip, Sir, we would see Jesus. Philip came and\\ntold Andrew about those Gentiles. I dare say he said, Do you think our\\nMaster will have anything to do with Gentiles And Andrew would\\nsay, Oh yes Do you not remember how kind he was to the woman of\\nSamaria, and the wo-\\nman near Cassarea,\\nand to the Roman\\ncenturion Then\\nPhilip and Andrew\\nwent together and\\ntold Jesus.\\nThe next day again\\nJesus stayed quietly\\nin Bethany but\\nPeter and John were\\nvery busy, for Jesus\\nhad sent them to Jerusalem to get ready for the Passover. They had\\nto take a lamb to the Temple to be killed by the priests, and they\\nhad to find a house in which to eat the Passover supper. Jesus said\\nto them, Go to Jerusalem, and when you have come into the city,\\na man will meet you, carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him into\\nthe house that he goes to, and say to the master of the house, The\\nMaster says, My time is near, I will keep the Passover at thy house.\\nWhere is the visitors room where I may eat the Passover with my dis-\\nciples And Jesus told Peter and John that the master of that house\\nwould show them a large room up stairs all made nicely ready for them.\\nAnd everything happened exactly as Jesus had said.\\nWhen Peter and John had got the Passover supper quite ready,\\nJesus came from Bethany with the rest of his disciples, and they all sat", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0384.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "THE LAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM. 349\\ndown together at the table; and Jesus told the disciples that he was very\\nglad to eat this Passover with them, because it was the very last time he\\nwould eat and drink at all before he died.\\nBut what do you suppose the disciples were thinking about? It\\nseems they had been having another squabble about who should be the\\ngreatest, so that, instead of thinking about Jesus at all, their minds were\\nfull of unkind thoughts about one another. That made the loving heart\\nCHRIST WASHING HIS DISCIPLES FEET.\\nof Jesus sad, and in the middle of supper he got up. What was he\\ngoing to do\\nFirst he took off his long, loose outside dress then he wrapt a\\ntowl round him; then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash\\nthe disciples feet, and to wipe them with the long towel which he had\\nfastened round his waist. That was the work that servants in the East\\nused to do, and Peter could not bear to let Jesus wait upon him. He said,\\nLord, thou shalt never wash my feet. But Jesus told Peter that he\\nmust let him wash him if he wanted to be his child.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0385.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "350 THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.\\nWhen Jesus had finished washing his disciples feet he put on his\\nlong coat again and sat down. And he told his disciples that he had\\ngiven them an example, so that they might be kind to one another, and\\nwait upon one another. I think that they must have been ashamed of\\ntheir quarrelling then.\\nTHE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.\\nTHE evening was fast drawing to a close, but before they parted,\\nJesus gathered together, as it were, into a few words, the teaching\\nof the last three years. He told his disciples to remember that\\nno one could come to the Father, except through him; that is, by walking\\nin the way he trod, believing the truths he taught, and accepting the life\\nhe gave, for he said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. That they\\nmust be one with him, as the branch is one with the vine, for without\\nhim they could do nothing, and the only way to show they loved him\\nwas by keeping his words. Moreover, whatever they asked the Father in\\nhis name, he would do.\\nI do not call you my servants, said he, but my friends, for I\\ntell you what will happen to you. As the world has hated me, you must\\nnot hope, as my followers, for better treatment For a little while, you\\nwill not see me but, again, after a little while you will see me. I came\\nfrom the Father, and I go back to the Father and although this night\\nyou will all be scattered from me, I am not alone, for the Father is with\\nme. And now I have told you all this, before it come to pass; but though\\nin the world you will, as I have said, have trouble, you may rejoice in\\nyour being one with me, for I have overcome the world.\\nThe little group now made their way into the streets, and through\\nthe city gate, which was open, it being Passover night. Was the Master\\ngoing to Bethany The disciples began to hope so, for he descended the\\nTemple hill and crossed the valley. Instead, however, of taking the path\\nwhich led over the Mount of Olives, he entered a garden at its foot, called\\nGethsemane, or the oil press.\\nThe Paschal moon filled the heavens with its soft quiet light, but\\nnot being yet risen over Olivet, the shadow of the hill fell on the garden,\\nand this, with the shade of the olive-trees, and the quiet seclusion of the\\nspot, made it, now, as always, dear to Christ, as his special chamber of prayer.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0386.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.\\n351\\nKind and gentle as Jesus had been all the evening, comforting the\\ndisciples in their trouble, his own great courage, which had carried him\\nthrough so many conflicts and temptations, seemed now almost to have left\\nhim. Entering the garden with Peter, James, and John, the three who had\\nbeen nearer him than\\nall the others, a\\nhorror of coming\\nwoe seemed almost\\nto overpower him,\\nand he longed to\\nbe alone with his\\nFather, while thus in\\nsore agony of spirit.\\nLeaving the three\\ndisciples, therefore,\\nafter begging them\\nto pray for him, he\\nmade his way a few\\nsteps further on,\\namong the dark\\ntrees, and gave way\\nto the feelings of\\nalmost despair that\\noppressed him.\\nHow easily he\\nmight have crushed\\nhis insolent enemies\\nHow easily called\\nangels to his aid\\nBut then ah, then,\\nhe would not have\\ndone his Father s christ in the garden of gethsemanE.\\nwill, and he had come to give all, his very life, that he might bring Life\\nto men. So terrible was the agony of the mental conflict, that his sweat\\nfell to the ground in drops of blood, while he earnestly prayed that, if it\\nwere possible, he might be spared his awful fate. Nevertheless, added\\nhe, not my will, but thine be done.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0387.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "352\\nTHE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.\\nRising, at last, to seek a little comfort from his friends, lie found\\nthat instead of praying for him in his trouble, their own grief had so tired\\nthem that they had dropped asleep. Rousing Peter, therefore, who had\\nmade such a boast of not leaving him, he sadly said, Could you not\\nwatch with me for one hour Watch and pray that you may not fall into\\ntemptation. I know your spirit is willing, he added, as though excusing\\nthem it is the flesh that is weak. Again he went away, and once more\\nfalling on his face in his sore trouble of soul, found at last the inner calm\\nFjfcfc^^, ^^j Sv\\nr\\nTHE TAKING OF CHRIST.\\nhe sought, when he had put away all thought of having any will, but\\nthat of the Eternal Father, and had lovingly said, Not my will but\\nthine be done!\\nAgain going to the disciples, he found them sleeping, but the\\nstruggle was almost over, for he had put himself wholly into the Father s\\nhands. And now an angel came and ministered to him and comforted\\nhim. The disciples had lost their last opportunity of serving him, for an\\narmed band, led by Judas, was already approaching the garden. But the\\nconflict was past. Strong in this, his final perfect submission to his\\nFather, our Lord rose, and, joining his disciples, went out to give himself up.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0388.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION. 353\\nJudas had not been with the party, he was absent, and Jesus knew\\nwhy. He awoke his disciples and said, Rise, let us be going; behold,\\nlie is at hand that doth betray me. And while he yet spake, lo, Judas,\\none of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and\\nstaves, from the chief priests and elders of the people. They did not\\nexactly know which was Jesus, and so Judas said he would go up to him\\nand salute him, and then they would know.\\nHow strangely hardened his heart must have been, and how bliuded,\\nafter Jesus had told him he was about to be betrayed, and that he would\\nbe the betrayer, to suppose that our Lord should not see through his\\nhypocritical design, in kissing him only to betray him And a worse sign\\nhe could not have given, for it only served to show his baseness in the\\nstrongest light. Had he struck him it would have been very bad, but to\\nkiss him only to show his enemies which was he, was the height of\\nwickedness Those who now pretend to love Christ, and yet do not faith-\\nfully give themselves up to his cause, do but too much resemble Judas\\nthis is like kissing Christ and betraying him.\\nMoreover, Judas added, Hail, Master that is, peace be to thee, or\\nhealth and happiness, as we sajr, and kissed him. And all this he did\\nfrom the love of mone}^. The poor disciples showed too, that while Jesus\\nwas so read} to die for them, they were then afraid to lose their lives for\\nhim they all forsook him and fled\\nPeter was always very zealous and forward in danger, and when\\nChrist was taken, he did not quite like to leave him in the hands of his\\nenemies without seeing what they were about to do, so he followed him\\nafar off unto the High Priest s palace, and went in, and sat with the\\nservants, to see the end.\\nIn the meantime the priests and elders tried to get some persons to\\nbear witness that Christ had said something in their hearing that was very\\nwicked, and according to their law deserved death. Now none could say\\nthis in truth so they were obliged to get false witnesses that is, pay\\nsome bad men to say anything they pleased, to make a reason for pro-\\nnouncing sentence on him. These vile men then declared that they had\\nheard Christ say, that he could destroy the temple and rebuild it in three\\ndays. Christ had, indeed, said something like such a thing, but he spake\\nonly of the temple of his bod} that is, that when he should be put to\\ndeath he would rise again the third day. And he ,did not say, I am\\n23", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0389.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "354 THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.\\nable to destroy the temple, but only, destroy this temple, meaning, as\\nI have just said, his body.\\nThis was, however, too trifling to affect his life so the High Priest\\ntried if he could get Christ to say something that would suit their purpose\\nbetter, and adjured him to tell them whether or not he was the Son of\\nGod. Thou hast said, said Jesus; that is, thou art right I am the\\nSou of God. Then the High Priest rent his clothes, declared he had\\nspoken blasphemy, and that there was no further need of witnesses. Had\\nhe not been the Son of God, he would, indeed, have spoken blasphemy\\nbut they did not know that he was so, though he had done miracles\\nenough in the land to prove it, and therefore, they now seized the oppor-\\ntunity of putting to death the Lord of Life and Glory.\\nAnd now the servants and soldiers spat in his face, struck him,,\\nslapped his cheeks, and having blindfolded him, asked him to tell them,\\nwho did it. This was horribly wicked and they are as horribly wicked\\nwho make sport with the name of Jesus, and use it triflingly or in jest;\\ntake care never to sport with sacred things.\\nPeter was all this while sitting among the servants of the High\\nPriest, when one of the maids espied him out, and accused him of being a.\\ndisciple; but Peter was afraid of suffering in the same way, and so denied\\nit. He then left his seat and went to the porch or entrance of the High\\nPriest s hall but there he was again discovered by another maid, and\\nthen he swore that he knew nothing of Christ.\\nAfter this some more persons charged him with being one of Christ s\\nfollowers, and they said that his dialect proved he came from the same\\npart of the country. Peter again cursed and swore, probably worse than\\nbefore, and said he knew nothing of Christ. Those that curse and swear\\nshow most plainly that they cannot belong to Christ, as Peter took a most\\neffectual and wicked method to disguise himself.\\nJesus had warned him of this, and told him that before the cock\\nshould crow twice he would deny him thrice. His words now came to-\\npass; the cock crew Peter remembered it his heart was ready to break\\nhe thought how wicked he had been, and, going away, he wept bitterly.\\nThis was a sign that he sincerely repented; but no weeping bitterly can.\\never wash away the foulness of your sins and mine that can only be\\ndone by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ, which has a particular virtue in.\\nhealing the wounded soul, and taking away its guilt and defilement.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0390.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION. 355\\nEarly in the morning Jesus was brought before the Council at the\\nTemple, where his condemnation was signed. The priests and elders, with,\\nthe soldiers, then took him to Herod s beautiful palace, in which Pilate\\nwas staying, sending in to ask the governor to come outside into the\\ncourtyard; for, were they but to enter the house of a heathen, they would\\nbe denied, and unable to enter the Temple on the festival Sabbath. How\\nblind these rulers were, to think that walking into the house of a Roman,\\nwould hurt them more than the awful sin they were committing\\nNot knowing much of the Jewish religion, Pilate did not understand? 1\\nthe strange accusation made against the Prisoner, and said they must:\\njudge him themselves, according to their law. This the priests refused to-\\ndo, for the3 T feared his friends would not allow him to be stoned, and that\\nthey should be hated were they to order it.\\nThe governor, therefore, called Jesus intc his palace, and asked i\u00c2\u00a3\\nhe were indeed a King. Our Lord admitted that he was; but that his\\nKingdom was not of this world. If it were, said he, my servants\\nwould fight to save me from the Jews I have come to be a witness o\u00c2\u00a3\\nthe truth, and whoever is of the truth, listens to me.\\nPilate knew well that the priests had only given him up from anger,,\\nand cared nothing for the truth, so he said half scornfully, What is.\\ntruth Then, bringing out Jesus to his accusers, he said he found no\\nfault in him. At this they rose up in furious anger. Pilate must find\\nhim guilty, and in their excitement some of them shouted, But he tells\\npeople not to pay tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is King\\nTurning again to the only one among the madly-excited crowd who\\nwas perfectly calm, and whom they were accusing of stirring up tumults,\\nPilate asked what Jesus had to say to that but he made no reply. He\\nknew he had taught exactly the opposite that people were to give to\\nCaesar what was due to him but it was of no use to say so, for, as Pilate\\nknew, truth was nothing to the priests.\\nI cannot say that I find any fault in him, said Pilate, much\\nperplexed.\\nBut you must not let him go, said the elders why, he is\\nalways trying to unsettle the people he began to gather multitudes\\ntogether in Galilee, and from there to Judaea, large crowds have hung on\\nhis words. Began in Galilee, repeated Pilate then is he a Gali-\\nlsean Certainly, replied the priests, He comes from Nazareth.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0391.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "356\\nTHE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.\\nOh, then, said Pilate, much pleased at thus getting out of his diffi-\\nculty, it is not for me to judge him at all. Herod Antipas, king of\\nGalilee, is just now in Jerusalem, take your Prisoner to him.\\nHow weary our\\nLord must have\\nbeen after his dread-\\nful night, at being\\nthus hurried from\\nplace to place but\\nhis accusers knew\\nno mercy.\\nKing Herod, he\\nwho had caused\\nJohn the Baptist to\\nbe beheaded, was\\nglad to see one of\\nwhom he had heard\\nso much, and hoped\\nour Lord would\\nperform a miracle\\nbefore him bat in\\nthis he was disap-\\npointed, for Christ\\nworked miracles to\\nrelieve suffering,\\nnot to glorify him-\\nself. The priests\\nand elders felt that\\nprecious time was\\nslipping by, for\\nthey wished him\\ncondemned and exe-\\ncuted before the Sab-\\nchrist before pilate. bath began, at sun-\\nset, though the law forbade them to put any one to death on the day of\\nhis condemnation. They hastened, therefore, to accuse him, as before\\nPilate, of making himself a King on which Herod and his soldiers began", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0392.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "MINISTERING TO CHRIST S AGONY", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0393.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "JUDAS BETRAYING CHRIST WITH A KISS", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0394.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION. 35 4\\nto laugh at Jesus, and to mock him, dressing him up in grand robes; and,,\\nthus arrayed, he was sent back to Pilate.\\nAs the governor again took his seat in the court of judgment,,\\nbefore the palace, a message was brought him from his wife, telling him\\nto have nothing to do with condemning this good man, as she had had a\\ndream about him, which had much disturbed her. Turning, therefore, to\\nthe priests, he told them it was impossible to pass sentence of death on\\none who had done no wrong. To please them, however, he would order\\nhim to be scourged; a most cruel punishment, for the whips often had\\npieces of lead or sharp bits of bone fastened in them, and these tore the\\nflesh dreadfully; but after that, said he, Jesus of Nazareth must be set\\nat liberty. As it is the custom, too, to release a prisoner at the Passover,,\\nshall that prisoner be he\\nNo! cried the crowd, urged on by the priests; release Barabbas.\\nThis Barabbas was the son of a rabbi, a robbei and murderer, who had\\noften tried to raise a revolt. What shall I do with your king, then?\\nWe have no king but Caesar, shouted these hypocrites, for they really\\nhated the Roman emperor. We have no king but Caesar, and if you let\\nthis man go, you are not Caesar s friend. Alarmed at the rising excite-\\nment and fury of the mob, Pilate tried to reason with them, but in vain.\\nHis words were drowned in their shrieks of Crucify him! Crucify him!\\nTo the cross with him\\nWeak, cowardly Pilate felt he must quell the disturbance, at all\\ncosts. The priests evidently meant to have the life of their prisoner, and,\\ncalling for water to wash his hands, he said, Let this water, washing all\\nstains from my hands, be a sign to you that my conscience is clear from\\nall share in this innocent man s blood. If you must have a victim for\\nyour rage, take him; but if wrong be done, let the blame be on your own\\nheads, not on mine.\\nThus did Pilate, knowing our Lord to be innocent, meanly give\\nhim up to death, although he might easily have dispersed this mob with\\nhis soldiers but he feared to offend the Jews, lest they should complain\\nto the emperor, and cause him to lose his place. We will gladly take\\nall the blame, if there be any, cried the people. We and our children\\nwill answer for his blood. When the soldiers had cruelly scourged Jesus,\\nthey pressed a crown of sharp thorns on his brow, and putting a reed in\\nhis hand, as if this were the right sceptre for such a king.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0395.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "358 THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.\\nOur Lord s strength must by this time have been nearly spent, for\\npeople often died after being scourged and Pilate tried, for the last time,\\nto move the crowd to pity, by bringing him out to them, and letting /them\\nsee him now scarcely able to walk, from ill-treatment and grief. Behold\\nthe man! Behold your king! said he. But pity found no place in their\\nhard hearts, and their only reply was to rend the air with shouts of Cru-\\ncify him Crucify him\\nThe chief priests and elders, as you read in the last chapter, had at\\nlength got their way, for Christ was condemned to die the most cruel of\\ndeaths. Although he would suffer at the hands of Roman soldiers, the sin\\nwas theirs, all the same, for had they not forced the governor, by threats,\\nto take his life? But there was one among the crowd, who did not join\\nin the murderous cries, whose heart sank within him at the awful words\\nshouted on every hand. It was the betrayer.\\nThe miserable man had gone with the crowd, backwards and for-\\nwards, from one court to another, and now, finding his Master was really\\nto die, after having already suffered such terrible agony, he was over-\\npowered with remorse and grief. No longer able to endure the thought of\\nthe thirty pieces of silver he had received, as the price of his blood, he\\nmade his way to the Temple, whither the priests had already gone, for the\\nmorning sacrifice, and flinging the money on the ground before them, cried\\nin an agony, What shall I do I have betrayed an innocent man\\nThat, they said coldly, is your affair, and has nothing to do\\nwith us. The poor wretch left their presence in despair. He could not\\nforgive himself his base deed, and in his self-accusing madness went out\\nand hanged himself. The priests, meanwhile, not daring to put the money\\ninto the Temple treasury, decided to buy a field with it, to be used for\\nfourying strangers.\\nIt was now about nine o clock. The men having brought out the\\nupper part of the cross, laid it on our Lord s shoulders, and he set forth\\non the terrible, though short, journey, to the outside of the city, for no\\none could be put to death within it. Jesus was, however, so exhausted by\\nthe cruel treatment he had received, that he was only able to go very\\nslowly along the hilly streets, carrying such a weight. Finding, soon, that\\nit was really more than he could possibly bear, the soldiers laid hold of a\\nstrong man passing by, a native of Cyrene, in the north of Africa, and\\nmade him carry it.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0396.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "to\\nW\\nt/5\\nW\\nQ\\nW\\nO\\nw\\nft\\nJ\\nfn\\nft\\nO\\nft\\n359", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0397.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "360\\nTHE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.\\nBut our Lord was not surrounded by enemies only, for the news of\\nhis arrest and trial had, by this time, spread through the city, and though\\ntoo late to save him, his friends among the Galilaeans would not allow him\\nto go to his death unattended. The women, too, who had often supplied\\nhis simple wants, pressed forward, bewailing and lamenting his terrible\\nsufferings. Even at such a moment Jesus could think of others, and turn-\\ning, told them not to weep for him, but for themselves and their children,\\nfor the misery that would come upon them, when the Romans should turn\\nCHRIST LEAVING FOR GOLGOTHA..\\nupon their nation, and destroy their city. Then they would cry to the\\nrocks to fall on them, and the hills to cover them, for their conquerors\\nwould have no mercy.\\nTwo thieves who had been condemned to die, were led out to be\\ncrucified with our Lord. At last they all reached a place named Golgotha,\\nwhich means a skull, so called because some hollows in a hill-side near,\\ngave it that appearance. The Latin name for Golgotha is Calvary. The\\nhighway to Jerusalem passed close to this spot, and as many people were\\ncoming along it, into the city, these, with the crowds who had now come\\nout, must, together, have made a very large concourse of people.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0398.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION. 361\\nHaving reached Calvary, the soldiers, according to custom, offered a.\\ndrink to the prisoners, which would cause them to feel less pain. But\\nJesus refused to take it, for fear it should also stupefy his mind. Having\\ntaken off their clothes, the soldiers placed Jesus and the thieves on the\\nthree crosses, as they lay on the ground, and performed the most cruel\\npart of their task, that of nailing them to the wood, through their hands\\nand feet. The knees were bent till the sole of the foot rested on the\\nbeam, and was thus nailed.\\nPerhaps it was at this awful moment that the first of our Saviour s\\ndying words fell from his lips. Father, he prayed, forgive them, for\\nthe} r know not what they do. With a hideous jolt the crosses were then\\nput into the holes prepared for them the accusation of each sufferer,,\\nwhich, written on a board, had been carried before him, being first fastened\\nat the top. Strange to say, the crime laid to the charge of Jesus was that.\\nhe was King of the Jews. And this was written in Hebrew, Greek and\\nLatin, that all might be able to read it.\\nThe Roman soldiers, having now only to wait till the end came,\\nsat down, and began to divide the clothes among them. They tore the\\nabba, or outward garment of Jesus, into several parts but as his inner\\ngarment was woven in one piece, and would be of no use, unless whole,,\\none of them got out some dice, and he who threw the highest number,,\\ntook the garment. How wonderful it seems that, many centuries before,\\nthe Psalms, speaking of our Lord, had said, They part my garments\\namong them, and cast lots upon my vesture\\nHaving offered the usual sacrifice, the chief priests came out from\\nthe city, that they might glory over their victim. But when they saw the\\nwords, The King of the Jews, on his cross, they were much displeased,\\nand went to Pilate, telling him he ought to have written that he said he\\nwas King of the Jews. Pilate, however, weary of their demands, and\\nperhaps angry with himself for having given in to them at all, answered\\nshortly, What I have written, I have written.\\nAs the morning wore on, the heat of the sun beating down on the\\nforms of the sufferers, must have been terrible but the Jews had no\\nmere} and could even find it in their hearts to jeer at Christ, as he hung\\nthere, saying that if he could build the Temple in three days, he had\\nbetter show his power by coming down from the cross, that they might\\nbelieve that he was God s Son; while even the Driests and elders were not", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0399.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "362 THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.\\nabove making the sneering remark, that though he had saved others, he\\ncould not save himself.\\nTo all this our Lord made no reply. He knew that, in saving\\nothers, he could not save himself, for he had come to earth, had lived, and\\nnow died, to take away the sin of the world. Had he failed at the last, he\\nwould not have saved mankind. The thieves, meanwhile had not been so\\nuncomplaining as our Lord and at last one of them shouted, that if he\\nwere the Christ, why did he not use his power in saving the lives of all\\nthree. But the other, touched by the wondrous patience of him who hung\\nso near him, silenced his companion, saying that they were both suf-\\nfering justly; but this man, said he, has done nothing amiss.\\nAnd then the thought dawned on his soul that, perhaps, Jesus was\\nindeed a King, and if so, he must have a Kingdom somewhere. It cer-\\ntainly did not seem to be here was it possible that it lay beyond death\\nOr had he heard him speak of his returning, after his death, to raise the\\ndead, and reign as the Messiah-Prince For he may have been one of the\\ncrowd round our Lord when he spoke in this way. Jesus, said he,\\nremember me when thou comest in thy kingdom.\\nThe bystanders heard the words, and those who loved our Lord\\nlistened breathlessly for the answer. Would he now tell them where his\\nkingdom was, and how they might some day reach him Verily, said\\nJesus, faintly, turning his eyes towards the thief, to-day shalt thou be\\nwith me in Paradise. It was enough. His kingdom was beyond the\\ngrave, and they now knew that, to join him, they also must pass through\\nthe gates of death. The thief, too, said no more, being quite content with\\nthe promise given him.\\nNot far from the cross stood the mother of Jesus, and some of his\\ndearest friends among whom was John. Christ saw their grief, and think-\\ning what a blank his death would make for them both, told Mary that\\nJohn must be her son now, while to the beloved disciple he gave,\\nas a sacred trust, the care of her, who was dearest to him on earth. So,\\nfrom that hour Mary was an honored guest, a second mother, in the\\nhome of John.\\nThe heat had been terrible, but now, as noon was approaching, a\\nheavy darkness gradually came on the wind was hushed, the birds ceased\\nto twitter. It was as though all nature stood still, and even the sun\\nveiled his face at the dreadful work that was being done. As the awful", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0400.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION. 363\\nhours rolled by, our Lord s sufferings increasing every moment, a horror\\nseemed to overcome him, and he cried in an agonized voice, My God, my\\nGod, why hast thou forsaken me He used the Hebrew dialect, which\\nhe had spoken as a bo}^ in Nazareth. Some of those who stood by did\\nnot understand it, and thought the words sounded as though he were\\ncalling on Elijah. But one of them, seeing how much he was suffering\\nfrom thirst, filled a sponge with some of the soldiers drink sour wine and\\nwater and putting it on a stick, taken from a plant near, held it to\\nour Lord s lips.\\nThe horror that had fallen upon him now passed away. He knew\\nthe end was approaching, and presently, with a triumphant voice, cried,\\nIt is finished; then, softly, as though speaking to one very near, he\\nadded, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit, and with a great\\ncry that startled all who heard it, he bowed his head, and was gone.\\nPale with terror, men and women looked at each other in the dim\\nlight; for the earth was trembling beneath their feet, the rocks around\\nseemed to reel and as the gloom slowly lifted, forms were seen to leave\\nthe cave-tombs in the hill-sides, and stealing quietly past, to vanish within\\nthe city, where, we are told, they were seen of many. Even the Roman\\nofficer in charge of the soldiers was alarmed at what was taking place, and\\ncried, Truly this was the Son of God.\\nThe crowd, meanwhile, turned, and in great confusiou hastened from\\nthe spot. Their alarm was, however, in no way lessened, when they heard\\nthat at the very moment when Jesus died, and the ground was shaking,\\nan invisible hand had torn the great curtain, which separated the Holy of\\nHolies from the priest s court, into two pieces thus laying open to view\\nthe sacred chamber, that was only entered once a year by the High Priest.\\nDid this mean that the Eternal Spirit would cease to own, as his\\ndwelling-place, the temple of which the murderers of his Son were the\\nservants Or was it that the death of Jesus for evermore opened the way\\nto God, with no curtain, no priest, between him and the soul who earnestly\\nseeks him? Perhaps both, for it is certain that the Holy God cannot be\\nserved acceptably by hypocrites people who pretend to be what they are\\nnot; and it is also true that, through the death of our Lord, the King-\\ndom of Heaven is opened to all believers.\\nThe Sabbath was now fast approaching, and the Jews, anxious that\\nthe city should not be defiled on that day by the men just crucified,", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0401.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "364\\nTHE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.\\nhanging on the cross during its sacred hours, dying or dead, went to Pilate,\\nasking if they might be killed at once. The governor, therefore, gave orders\\nthat their legs should be broken\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a hideous means used for speedily kill-\\ning, by the shock of\\nthe blows, those who\\nwere long in dying\\non the cross. But\\nwhen the soldiers\\nhad thus made an\\nend of the thieves,\\nthey saw that our\\nLord was already\\ndead, and did not\\nbreak his legs. One\\nof them in passing,\\nhowever, thrust a\\nspear into his side,\\nfrom which blood\\nand water flowed,\\nshowing that the\\ncavity of the heart\\nhad been pierced a\\nwound which, of it-\\nself, would have been\\nfatal, had he been\\nstill alive.\\nIt was the cus-\\ntom to throw the\\nbodies of those who\\nhad been put to\\ndeath on the con-\\nstantly burning fires\\nin the valley of Hin-\\nnom, which consumed the offal of the sacrifices but some of the\\nfriends of Jesus could not bear that his dear form should be so dis-\\nhonored. They dared not, however, take the body without permission but\\na friend, whom they might little have expected to be so loyal to the\\nTHE WOMEN AT THE TOMB", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0402.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "B\\nH\\nCO\\ns\\nU", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0403.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "DORCAS GIVING ALMS", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0404.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION. 365\\ndead Saviour, came forward in the difficulty. One of the Jewish elders,\\nnamed Joseph, a man of Arimathea, noted as owning a large garden close\\nto Jerusalem, had, like Nicodemus, believed that Jesus of Nazareth was a\\ngreat Prophet, if not the Messiah. Though not brave enough, before, to\\nown him publicly, neither had voted for his death, with the rest of the\\nCouncil but this had not saved him, there being so many against them.\\nNow that he had been so cruelly and wickedly put to death, how-\\never, the} threw awa}^ their fear, and were not ashamed to confess their\\nlove for him. Hence it was that Joseph of Arimathea, though a Jewish\\nelder, now entered the palace of Pilate and begged the bod) of Jesus.\\nThe request was unusual, but being made by one in so high a position,\\nthe governor thought well not to refuse it. Perhaps, too, his conscience\\nmade him feel how wrongly he had acted in condemning our Lord to death,\\nand he may have hoped, in some wa} r to make lip for it, by allowing him\\nhonorable burial. So, after asking of the centurion, whether Jesus were\\nactually dead alread}^ and hearing that he had indeed passed awa}^ he\\ngave the elder permission to do as he wished with the remains.\\nJoseph now immediately boiight a fine linen cloth, and, being joined\\nby Nicodemus, who, with his servants, was bringing one hundred pounds\\nweight of spices, to embalm the body, returned to the cross, near which\\nthe women were waiting. Taking our Lord carefully down from the\\ndreadful instrument of death, these loving friends washed the stains\\nfrom the wounds, and then wrapped the body in the linen cloth, putting\\nwithit the valuable spices given by Nicodemus. This done, they carried their\\nprecious burden to the sepulchre in Joseph s garden, that had been made\\nfor himself, and laid it reverently in it.\\nMeanwhile, the Jewish priests had not forgotten that Jesus had said,\\nhow, after three days, he should rise again. So, fearing that perhaps his\\ndisciples might come by night, and, after stealing his body, declare he had\\nreally risen from the dead a result which would give his name more\\npower among the people than ever they resolved to prevent this by get-\\nting Pilate to set a guard of soldiers before the tomb.\\nHaving, therefore, got leave from Pilate to make it as secure as\\npossible, they passed a cord across the stone, and sealed it to the rock at\\neach side, with clay, so that no one could enter without its being known;\\nand saw that the guard was duly stationed close by.\\nAnd thus the Sabbath quietly passed away in Joseph s garden. But", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0405.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "366 THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.\\nbefore the dawn of the third morning, the guard were startled by a sudden\\nearthquake, amidst which au angel, in dazzling white garments, descended\\nfrom heaven, and having rolled away the stone, the Lord came forth, from\\nthe tomb, victorious over death and the grave.\\nThe soldiers fled in terror. But they had scarcely left the garden,\\nwhen it was entered by two of the women, coming to finish the task of\\nembalming the body, so hurriedly performed on Friday. They did not\\nseem to have known that the stone was sealed to prevent its removal, but\\nthey wondered, as they went on, who could be got to roll it away, for it\\nwas very heavy. When they reached the spot, however, they found that\\nit was, alread}^, rolled away.\\nIn great surprise they entered the cave, when, in the dim light of\\nthe earl) dawn, they perceived first one, and then another, human form,\\nas if of young men, both arrayed in white robes. Speechless with alarm,\\nthey could only notice that the stony hollow in which the body of their\\nLord had lain, w T as empty. Be not amazed, said one of the angels, for\\nI know that ye seek Jesus, who has been crucified; he is not here, for he\\nis risen behold the place where they laid him.\\nThe elders were at once assembled to consult how best they could\\nhush up this story, and decided that they would bribe the soldiers to say\\nthat the disciples had stolen the body of Jesus while they were asleep,\\nthough they knew that Roman soldiers dared not sleep on their watch.\\nBut the elders promised to keep Pilate from harming them, if he should\\nhear of it. Thus won over, the soldiers did as they were told, scarcely\\nthinking, perhaps, how very foolish the whole story was for, if they had\\nbeen asleep, how could they have seen the disciples fetch the body away?\\nAnd if they did see them, why had they not stopped them\\nOn the afternoon of this ever-memorable day, two of the followers\\nof Jesus, one of whom was named Cleopas, left Jerusalem for a village\\ncalled Emmaus, about seven miles distant. Their hearts were very sad,\\nfor they had firmly believed that Jesus would be the Saviour of Israel, and\\nnow that he was taken from them, all hope seemed lost. Passover week\\nhad no longer any attraction for them, and they felt that the quiet of their\\ncountry home would better suit their sad spirits. Presently, a companion\\njoined them, and seeing how grave they looked, asked what they were\\ntalking about.\\nIs it possible, said Cleopas, that you can be staying in Jerusalem", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0406.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.\\n367\\nand do not know the things that have happened siuee Friday? What\\nthings? said the stranger.\\nWhy, the things about Jesus of Nazareth, replied they, that\\ngreat Prophet, mighty in word and deed. Have you not heard how the\\nchief priests and elders took him, and crucified him, three days ago? But\\nthe great wonder is, that this morning, when some of the women of our\\ncompanjr went to his tomb, they found him no longer there; but angels\\nWHILE THEY COMMUNED TOGETHER JESUS HIMSELF DREW NEAR,\\nwere sitting by the place where he had lain. Soon after some of his dis-\\nciples went, and found that the women had spoken the truth; but they\\ndid not see the Master anywhere. It is very sad, for we had so firmly\\nbelieved him to be the Messiah.\\nIf you did t ou were right, said the stranger, for Avas it not\\nforetold ages ago that the Christ should suffer this very death, and should\\nthen enter into his glory All this was prophesied by holy men of old.\\nHe then went on to explain the Scriptures to them so clearly that their", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0407.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "368 THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.\\nhearts were quite comforted; for they now saw that every word written of\\nthe Messiah, long before, had come true in the life and death of Jesus Christ.\\nTowards dusk they entered the village of Emmaus, and the c[isci-\\nples begged their new friend to come in and lodge with them and, though\\nhe seemed as if he had prepared to have gone farther, he accepted the\\ninvitation to rest with them, and share in their simple evening meal. But\\nnow, when they were at table, the guest took up one of the small loaves\\nand, having given thanks, broke it, and passed it to the two disciples.\\nThe familiar words of blessing, and the well-known gesture in handing the\\nbread, instantly opened their eyes, and made them sure that the com-\\npanion who had walked so many miles with them, was none other than\\nthe Lord himself. But at this very moment, he vanished from their sight.\\nThe disciples had not forgotten that they had been told by the\\nangels to return to Galilee, where our Lord would come to them. They,\\ntherefore, went back to their own district in the north, and resumed their\\nold occupation of fishing on the lake. One night, however, having caught\\nnothing, and being wearied with the fruitless toil, they were making for\\nthe land at break of day, when they perceived some One standing on the\\nbeach. It was Jesus but they did not at first know him some change,\\npeculiar, perhaps, to his risen body, making instant recognition difficult.\\nBut he soon revealed himself.\\nChildren, said he, have you anything to eat? They answered,\\nu No. If you cast the net on the right side of the boat, he said, you\\nwill find something; and when they swept their net round, lo it enclosed\\nsuch a number of fish, that it was like to break. It is the Lord,\\nwhispered John to Peter, it must be and the next instant Simon,\\nalways lovingly eager, leaped into the water, and swam to the shore to\\ngreet him, while the others slowly brought in the boat, dragging the heavy\\nnet after them.\\nSeveral times after this our Lord appeared to his loved ones once,\\nto as many as five hundred of those who had formerly listened to him.\\nHis last commands were, that the disciples, or apostles, as they were called,\\nshould go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the\\nname of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and that\\nwhen thus admitted to his Church, they were to be taught to do all the\\nthings he had urged on his followers, as the only way of really inheriting\\nhis kingdom. The disciples who had, for so long, listened to his divine", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0408.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.\\n369\\nteaching, and witnessed his perfect life, could not fail to know what\\nthese things were.\\nAnd 3 ou too, children, if you have carefully listened to the story,\\nwhich has now come to\\nan end, understand, I am\\nsure, that to belong to\\nChrist means to be like\\nChrist that if you wish\\nto show that t ou love\\nhim, you must do as he\\nsaid. And thus conquer-\\ning self-will, bad temper,\\nand all that is unlovely,\\nand becoming daily more\\nunselfish and good, you\\nwill grow more and more\\nlike him, and be, as he\\nsaid of the disciples,\\none with him, as the\\nbranch is one with the\\nvine. And then, trust-\\ning in the mercy of God\\nand the forgiveness of\\nsins for our Saviour s\\nsake having spent a life\\nin his service here, you\\nwill one day meet him\\nin his heavenly king-\\ndom for he said, Where\\nI am, there shall my\\nservants be.\\nThe last we hear\\nof our Lord s life on\\nearth, was, that once Christ s ascension.\\nmore ascending the Mount of Olives with his dear ones, he raised his hands\\nin blessing, and so was parted from them, and carried up to heaven. As the\\ngroup still looked upward, two shining ones appeared beside them, and\\n24", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0409.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "370 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nasked why they were gazing into heaven, telling them that Jesus who\\nhad just left them, would, one day, come again in the same manner as\\nthey had seen him go.\\nSo the disciples went down the slope of Olivet, henceforth to be\\nsacred ground to all who love the Master, and returned to Jerusalem with,\\ngreat joy; for they knew he was only gone for a little while, and would\\nsoon come again to take them to himself. And, indeed, they scarcely felt\\nthey had lost him, even for a time for his touch yet lingered in their\\nhands, his love filled their hearts, and his last words were still sounding\\nin their ears, Lo I am with you a/way, even unto the end of the world\\nFarewell in hope, and love,\\nIn faith and peace, and prayer\\nTill he, whose home is ours above,\\nUnite us there.\\nTHE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nAFTER Jesus had ascended into heaven, the disciples all returned to\\nJerusalem, to wait there for the promise of the Father, as Jesus\\nhad told them. They used to meet together in an upper room,\\nwith. Mary the mother of Jesus, and the other women, and many more\\nwho believed; and they spent their time in prayer and praise.\\nOne day, when about a hundred and twenty of this happy company\\nwere gathered together, Peter stood up and spoke to them. He reminded\\nthem, that one of the twelve apostles was parted from them for ever the\\nwicked Judas; and then he said, Let us now choose from among the dis-\\nciples another man to take the place of Judas, and to be witness with us\\nof the resurrection of Jesus. The disciples were all willing to do this\\nand they soon chose out two men, Joseph called Barsabas, and Matthias.\\nBut the}^ would not themselves determine which of these two should be\\nthe apostle. They prayed to God, and asked him to choose for them.\\nThey said, thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all, show which of\\nthese two Thou hast chosen, that he may take part of this ministry and\\napostleship. Then they cast lots and God made the lot fall upon Mat-\\nthias and he was numbered with the twelve apostles.\\nIt was very right of the apostles to ask God to direct them in what", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0410.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 371\\nthey did. This is what we should always do, when we have any business\\nor duty to perform. We are so ignorant, that we know not of ourselves\\nwhat to do, nor how to do it aright but if we ask God, he will give us\\nholy wisdom to teach and direct us. St. James says, If any of you lack\\nwisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraid-\\neth not, and it shall be given him.\\nTen da}-s after the ascension, was the feast of Pentecost. God com-\\nmanded the Israelites to keep it, when he gave them the land of Canaan,\\nso many years ago. It was kept in remembrance of the law being given on\\nMount Sinai, fifty days after the children of Israel came out of Egypt. It\\nwas called, too, the feast of weeks, because it was seven weeks after the Passover.\\nA great many Jews were now gathered together at Jerusalem, to\\nkeep the feast of Pentecost. And many people of other nations were there\\ntoo. These were Gentiles who had learnt to believe in the God of Israel,\\nand to obey his laws. They were called proselytes. All these people\\nassembled in one place, on the day of the feast. As they were sitting\\ntogether, they suddenly heard a sound from heaven, like a rushing mighty\\nwind, and it filled all the house in which they were. And there appeared\\nto them tongues of fire, which came and rested upon every one of them\\nand they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and were enabled, by his\\npower, to speak with other tongues, in new languages which they had\\nnever heard before.\\nHow very wonderful this was Jesus was now fulfilling his prom-\\nise he was sending to them that Spirit whom he had told them before he\\nwould send. We know how hard it is to learn a new language. We\\nstud}^ it, perhaps, maiw months or years before we quite understand it,\\nand can speak it. But the disciples, at the feast of Pentecost, had no\\nneed to learn the different languages which they then began to speak. In\\none moment, they knew them perfectly. And why was this Why did\\nGod give such wonderful power to his disciples at that time? Because-\\nGod wished his gospel to be then made known in many parts of the\\nworld, and to nations who had never heard it before. Many people from\\nthose nations were in Jerusalem at this very time; but they all spoke lan-\\nguages quite different from the language which the disciples spoke. So\\nGod sent the Holy Ghost to give the disciples this miraculous power of\\nspeaking different tongues, that they might be able to make known at\\nonce, to all the strangers in Jerusalem, the wonderful works of God.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0411.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "372 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nAll those people who came from other countries and heard the dis-\\nciples speak in their own languages, were very much surprised. They\\nsaid, How is this Are not these men Galileans How is it they can\\nspeak to us in our own tongues But the Jews who did not understand\\nthe different languages spoken by the apostles, mocked, and said, These\\nmen are full of new Mane. But Peter stood up in the midst, and said,\\nYe men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, these wonderful\\nthings, which you now hear and see, are only the fulfilment of what God s\\nprophet Joel foretold many years ago. He said that God would, in the\\nlast days, pour out his Spirit upon his servants, and teach them to\\nprophesy. And so it is. And now hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth\\ncame among you, and worked miracles, as you know. He was taken hy\\nwicked men, and crucified, and slain. But God raised him up and we\\nare witnesses of his resurrection, and say to yom, that he is the Son of\\nGod, the true Messiah. And now he is ascended up to heaven and it is\\nhe who has sent the Holy Ghost upon us, and given us this wonderful\\npower of speaking which you have heard to-day.\\nWere the people willing to attend to Peter, and to believe what he\\nsaid Yes they were so much struck with his words, that they cried\\nout, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Peter answered, Repent,\\nand be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the\\nremission of sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Then\\nthose who believed were baptized, as Christ had commanded. They were\\nabout three thousand.\\nGod is not now pleased to give his people that wonderful power of\\nspeaking different tongues, and of working miracles, which he gave to the\\ndisciples on the day of Pentecost. Those gifts were very useful and neces-\\nsary at that time, to enable the disciples to preach the gospel to many\\nnations at once, and to make the people believe that what they preached\\nwas really true. But this is not so necessary now for the Bible is printed\\nin almost every language in the world, and people may read it for them-\\nselves and many missionaries go out to teach it. But God does still give\\nthe Holy Spirit to all who ask him, to renew and sanctify their hearts, to\\nteach and comfort them, and to make them meet for heaven. Let us pray,\\nthen, for this good gift, and say, Lord, for Christ s sake, give us the\\nHoly Spirit.\\nOne day, Peter and John went to the temple to pray. A poor lame", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0412.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 373\\nman lay at the Beautiful Gate of the temple begging. He had been lame\\nall his life, and could do nothiug for himself; so every day he was carried\\nto the gate, and there he lay, asking money from those who went into the\\ntemple. When he saw Peter and John, he began to beg something from,\\nthem but the}?- were poor men, and had no money to give. What did.\\nthey do Did they pass on, and take no notice of the poor lame man\\nNo Peter and John had learned from their Master, Jesus Christ, to be\\nkind and pitiful, and to go about, as he did, doing good.\\nSo they spoke to the beggar, and said, Look on us. The poor\\nman did so direct^, hoping to receive some money from them. But Peter\\nsaid, Silver and gold have I none but what I have, give I thee in the\\nname of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. Then Peter took\\nhim b}^ the right hand, and lifted him up and immediately his feet\\nbecame strong, and he stood up, and walked, and went into the temple\\nwith Peter and John, leaping and praising God.\\nAll the people who saw this were very much astonished, and they\\nran to the disciples, greatly wondering. Then Peter said, Why do you\\nwonder at this Do 3 r ou think that it is our power which has cured this\\nlame man? No, it is not our power; it is the power of Jesus which has\\ncured him that same Jesus whom you denied and crucified. God raised\\nhim from the dead we are witnesses of this and his name, through faith\\nin his name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. And\\nnow repent, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for God sent him to\\nbless 7 ou, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.\\nAs Peter was speaking, the priests, and the ruler of the temple, and\\nthe Sadducees came to them. These wicked men would not believe them-\\nselves, and they wished to prevent the people from believing, if they could.\\nSo they laid hold of the two disciples, and shut them up in prison. But\\nGod blessed what Peter had said and many more of the people believed.\\nThe next da} the rulers, and scribes, and priests, all came to.\\ngether; and they brought out Peter and John, and made them stand before\\nthem, and asked, Tell us now, by what power have you cured this lame\\nman Then Peter, being full of the Holy Ghost, spoke boldly, and said^\\nIt is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, that the man has been\\nmade whole that same Jesus whom God raised from the dead and we tell\\nyou plainly that there is salvation only in him for there is no other\\nname under heaven given among men, by which we can be saved. Then", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0413.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "374 THE STORY OF THE APOSTEES.\\nthe priests and rulers wondered very much at the boldness of Peter and\\nJohn for they saw that they were ignorant and unlearned men and\\nthey took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.\\nThe priests and rulers wanted very much to punish Peter and John\\nbut they could not at that time for the man who had been healed was\\nstanding b}^, and all the people saw him, and believed in the miracle, and\\neven the wicked priests themselves could not deny it so they called the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2disciples again, and commanded them not to speak at all, nor teach, in\\nthe name of Jesus, and then let them go. And did the disciples promise\\nto obey the command No they would make no such promise. They\\nsaid, It is not right to attend to you more than to God. We must speak\\nthe things which we have seen and heard. Then their enemies threatened\\nto punish them if they did so but the disciples put their trust in God,\\nand asked him to give them strength, to preach the gospel without fear.\\nAnd God heard their prayer, and filled them with holy boldness, and\\nblessed their words to ver}^ many of tne people.\\nWe should learn, from these apostles, the duty of holy boldness for\\nthe sake of Christ. We are commanded in the Bible to be subject to the\\nhigher powers, and this command we must remember and obey. But\\nthen, it may sometimes happen that earthly rulers order things which are\\ncontrary to God s word; just as those priests and rulers did of whom we\\nhave been reading and just as, you remember, king Darius did, when he\\ncommanded the people not to pray for thirty days. And what would it be\\nour duty to do then? We must, as the apostles did, and as Daniel did,\\nobey God rather than man. But when we do this, we must do it in a\\nspirit of love, and gentleness, and humility; because we wish to obey God,\\nnot because we wish to resist the lawful authority of man. And we must\\nnever forget to love even our enemies, to bless them that curse us, and to\\npray for them who despitefully use us, and persecute us.\\nThe apostles now went about preaching the gospel, and healing the\\nsick, in the name and by the power of Jesus. When their enemies saw\\nthat they had not attended to the command given them, they became very\\nangry again, and laid hold of the apostles, and put them into prison. But\\nthese wicked men were not able to hurt the apostles at that time for God\\nsent an angel by night to open the prison door, and bring out his servants.\\nAnd then God commanded them, by his angel, to go into the temple, and\\npreach the gospel again to the people there.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0414.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 373\\nThe next morning, the priests, not knowing what was done, sent to\\nthe prison to bring out the apostles. The messengers soon returned in\\ngreat wonder, and said, We found the prison safely shut, and the keepers\\nstanding before the doors but when we went in, we saw no man. The\\nprisoners were gone. Then the priests began to wonder how this could\\nbe. But soon some one came in, and said, We have seen these men\\nwhom ye put in prison. They are now standing quietly in the temple,\\nteaching the people. Then the ruler of the temple, and the officers, went\\nand brought out the apostles.\\nWhen they came in, the priest spoke very harshly to them, and\\nsaid, Did we not command 3 t ou to teach no more in the name of Jesus\\nyet ye have disobeyed our command, and preached to all the people in\\nJerusalem. Then the apostles answered, We ought to obey God more\\nthan man. God raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, and hanged upon the\\ncross. He raised him to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance\\nand remission of sins. And we are his witnesses for we have seen all\\nthese things, and we must tell them to the people, because God has com-\\nmanded us so to do. Then those that heard what the apostles said, grew\\nvery angry, and wished to kill them. But there was a Pharisee in the\\ncouncil, named Gamaliel, a learned man, who was honored very much\\namong the people.\\nGamaliel hated the apostles, and the gospel they preached, as much\\nas the priests and Sadducees did; but he was wiser and calmer than they.\\nSo he commanded that the apostles should be put out for a little time,\\nand then he said, Ye men of Israel, take care what you do to these men.\\nI advise you to be quiet, and to let them alone. If what they preach be\\nfalse, it will soon come to nothing; and then we need not trouble ourselves\\nabout it. But if it be true, if it be of God, it must prosper, and we cannot\\noverthrow it. If we try to do so, we shall only be found to fight against\\nGod. All the council were pleased with what Gamaliel said. So they\\ncalled back the apostles, and beat them, and commanded them not to speak\\nin the name of Jesus, and then let them go.\\nThe apostles bore this cruelty with patience for they remembered\\nthe holy lessons which Jesus had given them about loving their enemies\\nand his example too, when he suffered so meekly before Pilate and Herod.\\nThey even rejoiced that they were allowed to suffer shame for their Saviour s\\nsake. So they went away; and taught and preached Jesus Christ daily, in", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0415.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "376 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nthe temple, and from house to house. This is another example for us of\\nholy boldness, and patience, and diligence in doing God s work. We should\\nimitate the apostles, as far as we can, in all these Christian graces, and be\\nthankful that we live in a time when people may hear and speak of Jesus\\nwithout fear of persecution such as these holy men had to endure.\\nIn those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, the\\napostles had much to do, not only in preaching the gospel, but in other\\nthings also. At last they found all this work too much for them they\\nhad not time and strength for it. So they called the disciples, and told\\nthem to choose from among themselves seven wise and holy men, who\\nmight help them in small things and then the apostles said, We will\\ngive ourselves to prayer, and the ministry of the word. This saying\\npleased all the disciples they were willing to help the apostles, and thus\\nto give them more time for prayer and preaching so they chose out seven\\nfaithful and holy men.\\nThe names of these men were Stephen, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor,\\nTimon, Parmenas, and Nicolas. Then they brought them to the apostles,\\nwho prayed, and laid their hands upon them, and set them apart for the\\nservice of God. These seven men were called deacons. Their business was\\nto attend particularly to the poor widows and also to collect money, and\\ndistribute it to those who were in need.\\nGod still blessed his word more and more and a great number,,\\neven of the priests, became obedient to the faith. At last, some other\\nenemies began to trouble the servants of God. Whenever God s people\\nare busy in making known the gospel, Satan is busy too among his\\nservants, stirring them up to resist the truth, and fight against it; and\\nso it was now.\\nThese wicked men were very angry with Stephen, one of the seven\\ndeacons, for he was full of faith and power, and did great wonders and\\nmiracles among the people. So they falsely accused him of speaking\\nagainst Moses and against God and then they caught him, and brought\\nhim before the council, and said, We have heard him say that Jesus\\nof Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which\\nMoses delivered to us.\\nAll this time Stephen stood calmly before his enemies. He looked\\nso holy and so gentle, that those who gazed at him saw his face as it\\nhad been the face of an angel.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0416.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 377\\nAt last the high priest spoke to Stephen, and asked, Are these\\nthings so? Then Stephen began to defend himself, but he did this very\\nwisely and gently. First, he reminded his enemies of their own past\\nhistory. He told them of Abraham, of God s command to him to go into\\nthe land of Canaan, and of Abraham s faith and obedience. Then he spoke\\nof the sufferings of the people of Israel in Egypt, for four hundred years,\\nas God had said, and of their deliverance by Moses. He reminded them\\nof all the wonders God did for his people in the Red Sea, and in the\\nwilderness, by the hand of Moses.\\nStephen was accused of speaking against Moses but he showed, in\\nhis defence, that this accusation was untrue, and that he loved and honored\\nhim very much as God s faithful servant. Then Stephen told them that\\nMoses himself had prophesied of Christ, of that Saviour whom they rejected.\\nThe prophecy was this The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a\\nprophet from the midst of thee, like unto me unto him ye shall hearken. n\\nThis prophet was the Lord Jesus Christ himself.\\nThen Stephen spoke of the disobedience of the Israelites, and of the\\npunishments with which they were threatened. And he told them of the\\ntabernacle which was built for God s service in the wilderness, and of the\\ntemple which was afterwards built at Jerusalem by king Solomon. But\\nStephen said, The Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands;\\nas saith the prophet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool:\\nwhat house will ye build me saith the Lord or what is the place of my\\nrest Hath not my hand made all these things\\nStephen had now answered the false accusations of his enemies. He\\nhad shown them that he did not speak against Moses and against God;\\nbut that he loved and feared God, and honored Moses his servant. He\\nhad told them about the tabernacle in the wilderness, and about the temple\\nat Jerusalem and perhaps he wished now to explain to them how the\\nservices of the tabernacle and the temple, the sacrifices and the ceremonies\\nwere done away in Christ, the Prophet of whom Moses had spoken. And\\nthen he would have warned them of the destruction which must come upon\\nthem if they rejected that Prophet and this would have explained the\\nmeaning of the words he was accused of saying Jesus shall destroy\\nthis place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.\\nBut the enemies of Stephen were beginning to be impatient, so he\\nhastened to the end of his speech. He wished to make them feel their", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0417.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "378 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\ngreat wickedness, and lie spoke to them very solemnly indeed. He said,\\nYour fathers persecuted the prophets who foretold the coming of Christ;\\nand you have betrayed and murdered that Just One. When they heard\\nthis, they grew very angry, and gnashed on Stephen with their teeth. But\\nhe was still calm and gentle and being full of the Holy Ghost, he looked\\nup to heaven, and saw Jesus standing on the right hand of God. That\\nJesus who had himself suffered so much, was now looking down in love\\nupon his faithful servant, to comfort him in his sufferings.\\nThen Stephen said, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man\\nstanding on the right hand of God. But his enemies would not attend\\nto what he said. They cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears,\\nand ran upon him, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him. Then\\nStephen called upon God, and said, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And\\nhe kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord! lay not this sin to\\ntheir charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.\\nSo Stephen died; but the Bible does not say he died; it only\\nsays he fell, asleep. His death was so happy, so peaceful, that it was\\nnot like death it was like calm and quiet sleep. Yet Stephen died in\\ngreat pain. What could make him forget the pain, and fall asleep so\\npeacefully The sight of his Saviour standing at God s right hand to take\\nhim up to heaven. That sight was so bright and glorious that it made\\nStephen forget all the pain of his cruel death, and all the rage of his\\nwicked murderers. And Stephen s heart was so full of holy love, that he\\ncould pray for his enemies, even when they were throwing stones upon\\nhim to kill him. He remembered the example of his Saviour who, when\\non the cross, cried, Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.\\nStephen is called the first martyr. He was the first who suffered\\ndeath for the sake of Christ. There have been many martyrs since\\nStephen died. First, the apostles then the early Christians and very\\nmany more in after times. There have been martyrs even in Christian\\ncountries. Good men and women have been persecuted unto prison and\\ndeath, because they would not conform to the errors and delusions of\\nbigoted, cruel men, and tyrannical rulers. And where are all these holy\\nmartyrs now? They are happy with Jesus, and will be so for ever.\\nThey have come out of great tribulation, and now they are before the\\nthrone of God, and he shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.\\nWe should be thankful that we do not live in a time when people", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0418.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 379\\nare put to death for believing the truth, and for serving the Lord Jesus\\nChrist. But we ought to pray, too, for the spirit of these holy martyrs\\nfor if ever we should be called upon to suffer for the sake of Christ, we\\nmay be enabled to do so with their faith, and love, and boldness; remem-\\nbering that if we thus suffer with Christ, we shall also reign with him.\\nThe apostles now returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in\\nmany villages of the Samaritans. Then an angel of the Lord came to\\nPhilip, and said, Arise, and go to the south, unto the way that goeth\\nfrom Jerusalem to Gaza, which is desert.\\nWhy was Philip to go there What could he do in a desert where\\nno people were living Philip did not know but as soon as the command\\nwas given him, he obeyed, without asking why. Philip knew that God\\nwas wiser than he; and that every command of God is right and good;\\nso he obeyed in faith. God had a very particular reason for sending Philip\\nto the desert just at this time we shall soon see what it was.\\nThere was a country called Ethiopia, south of Egypt, and a queen ruled\\nover it called Candace. Candace had a eunuch, or officer, who took care of all\\nher treasures, and was ver} useful to her in her kingdom. This man was\\na Jewish prosefyte that is, he had learnt to believe in the God of Israel,\\nand to attend to the law of Moses. So this eunuch used to go sometimes\\nto worship, and keep the feasts at Jerusalem. It happened that he had been\\nto Jerusalem a little time before and now he was returning to Ethiopia\\nacross the desert, just when Philip was sent there. The eunuch was\\ntravelling in his chariot, and as he rode along, he was not idle he had\\na book with him which he was reading very attentively. Perhaps he was\\nreading it aloud to his friends and servants who were travelling with him.\\nWhat book was he reading? The best book that any one can read the\\nHoly Scriptures.\\nThen the Spirit of God said to Philip, Go and join thyself to the\\nchariot. So Philip ran directly to the chariot and when he came nearer he\\nheard the words which the eunuch was reading, and spoke to him, and\\nasked, Understandest thou what thou readest? The eunuch answered,\\nHow can I, except some man should teach me And then he asked\\nPhilip to come and sit with him in the chariot, and explain what he was\\nreading. So Philip did as the eunuch wished.\\nThe place of the Scripture which he read was this He was led\\nas a sheep to the slaughter and like a lamb dumb before the shearer, so", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0419.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "380 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nopened he not his mouth. These words were written by Isaiah many\\nyears before. They were a prophecy of Jesus Christ but the eunuch did\\nnot know this so he said to Philip, I pray thee, of whom did the\\nprophet speak this of himself, or of some other man Then Philip\\nbegan at that very text, and preached unto him Jesus. He told him that\\nthese words were spoken of the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin\\nof the world, of the Lord Jesus Christ who was slain for us, and whose\\nblood cleanseth from all sin.\\nThe eunuch liked to hear Philip talk and Philip was willing to\\nanswer his questions, and explain his difficulties. And God blessed what\\nPhilip said, and the eunuch believed in Jesus Christ as the true Messiah,\\nthe Saviour of sinners. At last they came to some water. Then the\\neunuch said to Philip, See, here is water; may I be baptized? For\\nthe eunuch wished to obey the command of that Saviour in whom he now\\nbelieved. Philip answered, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou\\nmayest. The eunuch said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of\\nGod. And no doubt the confession came from his heart, and not from\\nhis lips only for this eunuch was a true believer, and not a mere pro-\\nfessor like Simon the sorcerer.\\nThen the chariot was stopped and they both went down into the\\nwater, and Philip baptized the eunuch. But as soon as they came out of\\nthe water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, in a wonderful way,\\nwhich we cannot understand, and brought him to a place many miles off,\\nwhere there was more holy work for Philip to do.\\nBut what became of the eunuch after Philip was gone He went\\non his way rejoicing. He had much to make him rejoice. Pie had learnt\\nto believe in Jesus Christ, who came into the world to save sinners; and\\nhe had a good hope that, when he died, he should go to that Saviour, and\\nbe with him for ever. He and Philip never met again on earth, but they\\nhave long ago met in heaven and Philip knows now why he was sent\\nso far off to the desert, and rejoices that he obeyed the command.\\nAnd what may we learn from this story? We may learn the duty\\nand blessing of searching the Scriptures, and of seeking and praying to\\nunderstand them. It was when the eunuch was diligently studying Isaiah,\\nthe prophet, that Philip was sent to preach unto him Jesus. And\\nChrist says to us, Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have\\neternal life, and they testify of me. But, like the eunuch, we cannot", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0420.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 381\\nalways understand what we read, without some one to teach us. How\\nthankful we ought to be, then, for wise and holy ministers of God s word,\\nwho are willing and able to explain it\\nBut we must remember, that the teaching of man alone will do us\\nno real good. We should pray to be taught of the Spirit. He is the best\\nteacher and we must ask him to take of the things of Christ, and show\\nthem unto us. Then we shall rightty understand the Scriptures, not\\nonly with our heads, but with our hearts and find them able to make\\nus wise unto salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.\\nWe are now going to read a very wonderful story about the cruel\\npersecutor, Saul, who had driven away so many Christians from Jerusalem.\\nSaul was a Jew, of the tribe of Benjamin. He was born at Tarsus in\\nCilicia, and brought up in Jerusalem by Gamaliel, the learned Jew of\\nwhom we have heard before. Saul was very learned, like his master; and\\nlike him, too, he was a Pharisee, and very particular in keeping the law\\nof Moses. And because of all this, Saul thought himself very righteous\\nand good; too good to need a Saviour; for he did not then know the sin-\\nfulness of his own heart, nor feel the truth of the text which says, There\\nis not a just man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.\\nSo when Saul first heard of Jesus of Nazareth, instead of believing\\non him as the true Messiah, he despised, and rejected, and hated him.\\nAnd when some of the people began to believe the Gospel, Saul hated and\\npersecuted them, because they loved Christ. He even thought it was his\\nduty to do this, and to try to prevent them from believing in the Lord\\nJesus. How ignorant Saul was then And so are all who have not been\\ntaught, by the Holy Spirit, to feel themselves sinners, and to go to Christ\\nfor salvation. After persecuting the Christians in Jerusalem, Saul deter-\\nmined to persecute them in other cities also. So he went to the high\\npriest, and asked for letters to the rulers of the synagogues in Damascus,\\ngiving him leave, if he found there any disciples of the Lord, to bring\\nthem bound to Jerusalem. Then the high priest gave him letters, and\\nSaul set off to Damascus.\\nBut as he journeyed, and came near to Damascus, there suddenly\\nshone round about him a light from heaven; and he fell to the ground,\\nand heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?\\nThen Saul cried, Who art thou, Lord And the voice said again, I\\nam Jesus, whom thou persecutest. It was the same Jesus whom Saul", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0421.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "382 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nhad despised, and whose disciples he had persecuted, who was now calling\\nto him. But why did Jesus say that Saul persecuted him f Because Jesus\\nregards his people as himself. He says, He that toucheth them toucheth\\nthe apple of his e} r e.\\nBut Saul did not despise Jesus now. The voice came with power\\nto his heart, and conquered and subdued it and Saul cried humbly, as he\\nhad never done before, Lord what wilt thou have me to do The\\nLord answered, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee\\nwhat thou must do. Then Saul arose; but he. was not able to see, for\\nthe bright light had taken away his sight; so those who were with him\\nled him by the hand, and brought him to Damascus.\\nSaul was three days at Damascus, without eating or drinking and\\nhe was blind, too, all that time. Yet all was sent in mercy to Saul, to\\nbring him to repentance. As he sat alone, blind and unhappy, he thought\\nof his past life and he felt for the first time, that he was a sinner before\\nGod and then he began to pray for pardon. And did God hear his\\nprayer Yes God had been looking upon Saul all this time and as\\nsoon as Saul began really to pray, God heard and answered him.\\nThere was a disciple living at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord\\nappeared to this good man in a vision, and said, Ananias, arise, and go\\ninto the street called Straight, and ask in the house of Judas, for a man\\nnamed Saul of Tarsus for, behold, he prayeth. And he has seen thee, in\\na vision, coining in, and putting thine hand upon him, that he may\\nreceive sight. But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard of this man\\nbefore, and how much evil he has done to thy disciples in Jerusalem.\\nAnd now he is come here with power from the priests, to bind all those\\nwho call upon thy name. Ananias did not believe, at first, that this\\nSaul could be really humble and penitent and perhaps he felt afraid to\\ngo to him.\\nBut God taught Ananias that he had power to soften the hardest\\nheart he said, Go thy way for I have chosen Saul to preach my\\nGospel to the Gentiles, and to kings, and to the children of Israel and\\nhe shall suffer many things for my name s sake. Then Ananias obeyed\\ndirectly. He went into the street called Straight, and to the house of\\nJudas, and there he asked for Saul of Tarsus. Then Ananias went into\\nthe room where Saul was, and laid his hands upon him, and said, Brother\\nSaul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to thee in the way, has sent me that", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0422.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "SJ.G uvej. la. L\\nANANIAS RESTORING PAUL S SIGHT.\\nF\u00c2\u00a3orqo\\\\$, a\\n383", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0423.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "384 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nthou mayest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. And\\nimmediately he received sight, and arose, and was baptized. Then he ate\\nsome meat and was strengthened and he stayed with the disciples in\\nDamascus, and preached Christ in the synagogues.\\nWhat wonderful power and mercy God showed in thus turning the\\nheart of Saul of Tarsus And God is still able and willing to soften the\\nhardest hearts, and to pardon the greatest sinners who come to him as\\nSaul did, when God said of him, Behold, he prayeth. Saul had often\\nsaid prayers, as the Pharisees did, with his lips, to be seen of men but\\nhe had never before prayed with his heart to God in secret and therefore\\nhis prayers had never before been heard nor answered. Do you wish to be\\npardoned as Saul was Then you must come to God as he did, when he\\nwas lying blind at Damascus, and as the poor publican did in the parable\\nand say, God be merciful to me a sinner!\\nAbout this time, Barnabas went to Tarsus, to seek for Saul and\\nwhen he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. Saul and Barnabas\\nstayed together at Antioch a whole year. They preached the gospel there,\\nu and many believed and turned unto the Lord.\\nThe disciples were called Christians first at Antioch. This was\\na new name then given to them what did it mean The word Christian\\nmeans a follower of Christ one who professes to be his servant, and to\\nown him for a Master. We who live in this country are called Christians.\\nWe profess to belong to his Church, his people, his family. But many\\npeople profess to be Christians, and are not really Christians. A real\\nChristian loves the Saviour more than anything in the world believes in\\nhim with all his heart, and tries to please and honor him in all he says\\nand does. Those people, then, cannot be true Christians, who love the\\nworld, and its follies, and vanities, and sins. They cannot be true Chris-\\ntians if they try to please themselves more than to please Christ, and if\\nthey seek their own honor more than his. It is a very awful thing to\\nprofess to belong to Christ, and yet in heart to be none of his. At the\\nday of judgment Jesus will say to all such people, I never knew you;\\ndepart from me, ye that work iniquity.\\nThe early Christians at Antioch were really sincere they truly\\nloved Jesus, and showed their love by their kindness to their poor brethren.\\nThe disciples determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in\\nJudea; which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0424.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 385\\nBarnabas and Saul. This was a good way of showing their love to Jesus,\\nfor he himself had said, By this shall all men know that ye are my\\ndisciples, if ye have love one to another.\\nChrist had told his disciples that they would have much to suffer\\nfor his sake and now trouble and persecution had begun. About this\\ntime, Herod, king of Judea, grandson of the wicked Herod who killed the\\nchildren at Bethlehem, stretched forth his hand to vex certain of the\\nchurch. And he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword. And\\nbecause he saw that it pleased the Jews he determined to take Peter also.\\nPeter was now at Jerusalem so Herod sent, and took him, and put him\\ninto prison, and commanded a number of soldiers to keep him safely.\\nHerod did not wish to put him to death directly but he determined after\\nBaster to bring him out to the people, to be judged.\\nIt was a sad time for the other disciples when Peter was in prison.\\nThey all loved him very much, and could not bear to be parted from him.\\nAnd then they thought, perhaps, that they should never have him with\\nthem again. They had lost James he had been cruelly killed and they\\nwell knew that their enemies would kill Peter too, if they could. So they all\\nfelt very, ver}^ sad. Could they do nothing for him Yes there was one\\nthing they could do. They could not take him out of prison, they could not\\nsave him from Herod s power, but they could pray for him, and so they did.\\nPrayer was made without ceasing, of the church, unto God for\\nhim. This teaches us something. We may lose our friends they may\\ngo far away from us they may be in pain, and suffering, and trouble,\\nand we may not be able to help and comfort them. But then we can pray\\nfor them. God can help them, though we cannot and if he sees right,\\nhe will answer our prayers for them, as he did the prayers of the dis-\\nciples for Peter.\\nOne night, the night before Peter was to be brought out, he was\\nsleeping in the prison, between two soldiers he was bound with two\\nchains, and the keepers before the door kept the prison. How could Peter\\nsleep? Was he not too anxious, too unhappy, to rest quietly? No; Peter\\ncould be peaceful and happy even in prison he could sleep quietly, though\\nhe expected to be brought before his enemies the next morning, and\\nperhaps put to a cruel death. And why was he so calm and happy?\\nBecause he was at peace with God, through Jesus Christ. Peter was ready\\nto die, and therefore he had no cause for fear.\\n25", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0425.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "386 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nWhile Peter was sleeping, suddenly, in the middle of the night, a\\nlight shone in the prison, and an angel of the Lord came, and smote him\\non the side, and said, Arise up quickly. And immediately the chains\\nfell off from Peter s hands. Then the angel said again, Gird thyself, and\\nput on thy sandals. And Peter did so. Once more the angel said, Cast\\nthy garment about thee, and follow me. Then Peter arose, and followed\\nthe angel. They passed through the prison, but the soldiers did not\\nawake then they came to the door, but the keepers were still sleeping\\nso they went out, and came to the iron gate. How could they open the\\ngate Did the angel undo the lock and move away the great bars No v\\nhe had no need to do this the gate opened of itself; for God made it\\nopen that his servant Peter might be delivered. So Peter and the angel\\nwent through, and came into the city. Then they passed along one street,,\\nand, in a moment, the angel was gone.\\nAll this was done so suddenly, and so quickly, that Peter hardly\\nknew what had happened, but thought he saw a vision. But when he was\\ncome to himself, he said, Now I know that the Lord has sent his angel,,\\nand delivered me out of the hand of Herod. So Peter, full of joy and\\nthankfulness, went on, and came to the house of Mary, the mother of John,,\\nsurnamed Mark, and knocked at the door. Were not all the people in the\\nhouse asleep No though it was so late, they were awake for they had\\na great work to do, and they could not rest till it was done. What was\\nthat work It was prayer. They were all gathered together praying.\\nPerhaps they were too busy with their daily duties to come together\\nearlier so these good people met in the night-time for prayer, and none\\nof them complained of being too tired and sleepy to attend to holy things.\\nNo they all thought it was the best and happiest time of the day for\\nthey had learnt to love the work of prayer and praise, better than any\\nother work they had to do. They were praying, too, for Peter. They\\nhad not forgotten their dear friend who had been so long in prison. They\\nprayed for him again and again for, though God did not answer their\\nprayers directly, they felt quite sure that he would at last, when the right\\nand best time came. And so he did. This very night, while they were\\npraying, Peter came and knocked at the door.\\nA young maid, named Rhoda, went out to ask who was there and\\nwhen she heard Peter s voice answering, she was so glad, that, without\\nopening the gate, she ran back, and told those in the house that Peter was.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0426.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 387\\ncome. But they would uot believe it. They said, No; it caunot be; thou\\nart mad. But Rhoda told them she was quite sure that it was really\\nPeter. All this time Peter stood knocking at the gate so at last they\\nopened it, and found, to their great joy, that Peter was there indeed. Then\\nhe told them how he had been delivered, and said, Go, and show these\\nthings unto the brethren. So he left them, and went to another place,.\\nwhere he would be safe from his enemies.\\nIn the morning, when the soldiers came to look for Peter, they were\\nvery much astonished not to find him and no one knew how he had escaped,\\nnor where he was. Herod sought for him a long time in vain and then\\nhe became angry, and commanded the keepers to be put to death. This\\nwas very unjust and cruel of Herod. The keepers were not to blame; but\\nHerod was so angry that he did not care what cruel or unjust thing he did.\\nAnd now Ave come to the sad end of this wicked king. He was\\nsoon punished for all his crimes in a very dreadful way. Not long after\\nPeter s escape, Herod was one day seated upon his throne in his palace at\\nCesarea, dressed in his royal garments. All his lords and his nobles were\\nthere, and Herod made a speech to them as they stood before him. Then\\nthey all gave a shout, and cried, It is the voice of a god, and not of a\\nman. But Herod did not reprove them for this foolish and wicked flat-\\ntery; he loved to hear himself praised, and to think of his power, and\\ngreatness, and riches; forgetting that it was God who had given him these\\nthings, and that he could, in one moment, take them all away. And God\\nsoon showed the people, and Herod himself, too, how vain and foolish this\\nflattery was. He showed them that this wicked king was not a god, but a\\nweak, helpless man, unable to save himself from sickness and death when\\nthey came upon him. The angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave\\nnot God the glory; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.\\nSaul and Barnabas went to Jerusalem, with the money sent from the\\nChristians at Antioch and when they had finished their work there, they\\nreturned to Antioch. Then they were told by the Holy Ghost to go and\\npreach the gospel in other places so after prayer for God s blessing, they\\nleft their friends at Antioch, and sailed to Cyprus.\\nThere was living at Paphos, in Cyprus, a governor named Sergius\\nPaulus. He was a Gentile; a wise man; and he showed that he had\\nwisdom by wishing to hear the apostles preach. He wanted to know the\\nword of God. But there was a sad enemy of the gospel living at Paphos", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0427.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "388 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\ntoo. This was a man named Elymas lie was a sorcerer, or magician, and\\nhe not only hated the truth himself, but he wished to prevent Sergius\\nPaulus also from believing it. But Saul, being filled with the Holy Ghost,\\nand knowing the wickedness of Elymas, fixed his eyes upon him, and said,\\nO thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not\\ncease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? Behold, now the hand of the\\nLord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season.\\nAnd as Saul said this, there fell a darkness upon Blynias, and he\\nwent about seeking some one to lead him by the hand. We do not read\\nwhether this wicked man ever repented of his great sin, and became will-\\n.ing to receive the gospel. But the governor, Sergius Paulus, when he saw\\nwhat was done, believed and we may hope that he became a true disciple\\nof the Lord Jesus. How dangerous it is to fight against God and his\\ngospel We have often seen this before. Many times we have read of\\nwicked men trying to destroy the truth but they never could, and they\\nnever will for God is stronger than they, and his word must prosper at last.\\nThen Saul, who was now called Paul, left Paphos with his company,\\n:and went to Perga, and afterwards to Antioch not the Antioch we read\\nabout before, but another Antioch, in Pisidia. There they went into the\\nsynagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down. After reading the law and\\nthe prophets, the ruler of the S}magogue asked the apostles to preach to\\nthe people. So Paul stood up, and spoke to them for a long time about\\nthe history of Israel in past times, and particularly about king David.\\nAnd then he told them of that Son of David, according to promise, the\\nLord Jesus Christ, the Saviour. And he explained to them how Jesus\\ncame into the world, and died, and rose again, to save sinners who will\\nbelieve in him.\\nSome of the people, particularly among the Gentiles, were willing to\\nbelieve the gospel and they begged the apostles to preach the same\\nthings to them again; and the next Sabbath almost all the city came to\\nhear the word of God. But many of the Jews were filled with envy and\\nhatred, and could not bear to see the people coming to hear the gospel,\\nand contradicted all that Paul and Barnabas said. Then the apostles\\nspoke very faithfully and boldly to these unbelieving Jews, and said, It\\nwas right that the word of God should be preached to you first, for this\\nwas the command of Christ; but as you have put it away from you, and\\nare careless about everlasting life in heaven, we shall now leave you, and", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0428.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 389\\ngo to the Gentiles. For the Lord has commanded us also to make known\\nhis salvation to the ends of the earth.\\nWhen the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and many of them\\nbelieved; but the Jews raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and.\\ndrove them from the city. So the disciples left Antioch and went to\\nIconium. There again they were persecuted by Jews and Gentiles too; SO\\nthey escaped to Derbe and Lystra, cities of Lycaonia.\\nHow very sad all these stories are They show us this truth, and\\na very awful truth it is, that the natural heart is enmity against God.\\nAll our hearts are, by nature, like the hearts of these unbelieving, perse-\\ncuting Jews and Gentiles. Let us pray, then, to be made children of\\ngrace to be received into the family of Christ, and to become followers\\nof God as his dear children.\\nPaul and his companions went through Phrygia, and Galatia, and\\nMysia, and at last they came to Troas. A Christian church was formed\\nin Galatia, to which Paul afterwards sent the epistle called the epistle to\\nthe Galatians.\\nWhile Paul was at Troas, he saw, in a vision, a man of Macedonia,\\nsaying to him, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. As soon as\\nPaul had seen this vision, he determined to go directly to Macedonia; for\\nhe knew the vision came from God, and that it was sent to tell him that\\nthere was work to do in Macedonia. So he took a ship, and sailed to\\nSamothracia, and the next day to Neapolis and then he came to Philippi,\\na chief city in Macedonia, peopled by Romans.\\nPaul and his friends stayed some days at Philippi and on the Sab-\\nbath they went to the river s side, to a place where the people used to\\nmeet for prayer; and Paul sat down, and taught the women who came\\nthere. One of these women was named Lydia. She was a seller of purple,,\\nof the cit}^ of Thyatira, and a worshipper of the true God. The Lord.\\nopened the heart of Lydia to attend to the things which Paul said; and\\nshe became a believer in Christ, and was baptized. Lydia begged them to\\ncome into her house, and stay there.\\nPeople may hear the gospel preached to them, but they will never\\nbe the better for it, unless God opens their hearts, as he did Lydia s. All\\nour hearts are by nature shut against the truth and therefore, whenever\\nwe read or hear the Scriptures, we should pray, Lord, open our hearts,\\nthat we may understand and receive thy word.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0429.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "390 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nThere was another person at Philippi, to whom Paul was useful.\\nThis was a young woman who was possessed with an evil spirit, and pre-\\ntended to foretell future things. She was a slave and her wicked and\\ncruel masters gained a great deal of mone}^ by her; for many people came\\nto see her, and to hear the things she said. When this young woman\\nsaw Paul and his companions, she followed them for many days, crying,\\nThese men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us\\nthe way of salvation. This was the truth; but the evil spirit did not\\nmean the people to think it was nor did the poor slave herself under-\\nstand rightl} what she said.\\nBut, at last, Paul being grieved, and full of pit}^ turned, and said\\nto the spirit, I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out\\nof her; and the evil spirit came out that same hour. And then the poor\\nslave no longer said the wicked things she had said before but became,\\nAve may hope, a true disciple of the Lord Jesus. But when her masters\\nsaw what was done, they were very angry, because now they would gain\\nno more money by her; so they caught Paul and Silas, and brought them\\nbefore the judges, and said, These Jews greatly trouble our city, and\\nteach things which are unlawful for us to receive, boing Romans.\\nThen the multitude rose up, and the judges commanded that the\\nlapostles should be beaten. So first they were beaten very cruelly, and\\nthen cast into prison and the jailor was told to keep them safely. This\\njailor was a cruel, hard-hearted man, and very willing to do all the judges\\nwished. So he thrust Paul and Silas into the inner prison, and made\\ntheir feet fast in the stocks.\\nHow sad it was for these two good men to be so cruelly punished\\nfor preaching the gospel, and trying to do good! But Paul and Silas did\\nnot feel sad. They could be peaceful and happy even in the prison for\\nthey knew that God was with them there, and they rejoiced to suffer for\\nhis sake. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises\\nunto God; and the prisoners heard them. And God heard them too, and\\nanswered their prayer in a very wonderful way. He sent a great earth-\\nquake, which shook the prison to the foundations and all the doors were\\nopened, and every one s chains were loosed. The noise awoke the jailor\\nout of his sleep and when he saw what had happened, he thought that\\nall the prisoners had escaped; and he drew his sword, and was going to\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2kill himself.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0430.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "PAUL AND THE PHILIPPIAN JAILOR.\\n391", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0431.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "392 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nBut Paul cried out, Do thyself no harm for we are all here.\\nTheu the jailor called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and\\nfell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs,,\\nwhat must I do to be saved Then they answered, Believe on the\\nLord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved; and they preached the gospel\\nto him, and to all who were in the house. And that same hour, the jailor\\nbrought them out, and took them into his own house, and gave them food\\nto eat and was baptized with all his fainity, believing and rejoicing in\\nthe Lord.\\nWhat a wonderful change this was in the jailor A few hours be-\\nfore, he was cruel and hard-hearted and hated the apostles, and the gospel\\nthey preached. Now, he was gentle and willing to be taughc and had\\nbecome a humble believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. The grace of God\\ncan change any heart and he is willing to pardon and to save the greatest\\nsinners. But there is only one way of being saved and that is the way\\nwhich Paul and Silas showed to the poor penitent jailor: Believe in the\\nLord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.\\nIn the morning the magistrates sent to the prison, saying, Let\\nthese men go. For the earthquake had frightened the magistrates as well\\nas the jailor; but we are not told that they learnt to believe in Jesus\\nChrist, as he did. Then the jailor went to Paul and Silas, and said, The\\nmagistrates have sent to let you go now then depart, and go in peace.\\nBut Paul answered, No they have punished us openly, uncondemnned,,\\nand they should not send us away secretly. Let them come themselves,\\nand fetch us out. When the magistrates heard this they were afraid; for\\nthey thought they might perhaps displease the emperor of Rome if they\\nill-treated Roman citizens so they came directly, and brought out the\\napostles, and sent them away. Then Paul and Silas went to the house of\\nLydia, and saw the brethren there, and comforted them and departed.\\nThus began a little Christian church at Philippi. Paul, some years\\nafter, wrote a very beautiful letter to these Christians. It is called in the\\nTestament, the epistle to the Philippians. The Philippians loved Paul\\nvery much, and often comforted him in his sorrows, and helped him in\\ntimes of need. And Paul loved them too, and remembered and prayed for\\nthem when he was far distant from Philippi and he sent them this letter\\nby Timothy, to encourage them to go on serving the Lord that, at last,\\nhe and they might meet in heaven, and never be parted again. He said,", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0432.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 39S\\nTherefore, iny brethren, dearty beloved aud longed for, my joy and crown,,\\nso stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. Rejoice in the Lord alway\\nand again I say, rejoice. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing;\\nbut in eve^thing by prayer, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made\\nknown unto God. And the peace of God shall keep your hearts and minds\\nthrough Christ Jesus.\\nPaul and his friends then went on to Thessalonica, where was a\\nJewish synagogue, and taught there on the Sabbath day. Some of the\\nJews believed, and so did many of the Greeks. But the Jews who did not\\nbelieve were angry, and called together some wicked men, and went to the\\nhouse where the apostles lodged, to seek for them. The house belonged to\\na good man named Jason. These cruel enemies could not find the apostles\\nso they laid hold of Jason and the other brethren, and brought them before\\nthe rulers of the city, and said, Those men who have troubled the world\\nin other places, are come here also and Jason has received them into his\\nhouse. They are teaching people to disobey our laws they say that there\\nis another king, named Jesus.\\nThis troubled the rulers very much but they did no hurt at that\\ntime to Jason and the others, but let them go. Then the brethren sent\\naway Paul and Silas by night and they came to Berea. God blessed\\nPaul s preaching to many people at Thessalonica and a Christian church\\nwas formed there, to which Paul afterwards wrote the two epistles to\\nthe Thessalonians.\\nWere the Jews at Berea more willing to attend to Paul than the\\nJews at Thessalonica? Yes; we are told they were more noble than\\nthose in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness of\\nmind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so\\ntherefore many of them believed. The Jews at Thessalonica hardly\\nattended to what the apostles preached those at Berea not only attended,\\nbut thought a good deal about it afterwards. They searched the Old\\nTestament Scriptures to see if they could find in them anything like what\\nPaul said. And they did find much there about the Lord Jesus Christ, of\\nwhom Moses, and David, and Isaiah, and others, had prophesied.\\nAnd then many of these Bereans believed for God blessed their\\nsearching of his word, and taught them more and more by his Spirit, and\\nhelped them to understand and believe the truth. This is a lesson for us.\\nWe ought not only to hear the gospel preached, but to read and search", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0433.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "394 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\ninto the Bible for ourselves. We should prove all things by the Scrip-\\ntures asking God to enable us to understand them aright and then he\\nwill lead us, by his Holy Spirit, into all truth, as he did the wise and\\nnoble Bereans. But Paul could not stay long at this place for the\\nunbelieving Jews of Thessalonica came, and stirred up the people of Berea\\ntoo so the brethren sent Paul awa} and he went to Athens.\\nWe read a great deal about Athens in history. It was a place very\\nfamous for learning, and wisdom, and knowledge, and politeness. But yet\\nthese people at Athens had no true wisdom for they were ignorant of\\nGod, and of the Bible, and of the way to heaven. They worshipped many\\nfalse gods, and had feasts in honor of them and these gods, they thought,\\nwere not holy and good, as the God of the Bible- is but bad and wicked;\\nof like passions with themselves. Yet the Athenians worshipped them\\nstill and thus, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools\\nfor they were vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart\\nwas darkened.\\nWhen Paul saw all this, he was grieved to the heart. He too was\\nlearned, and able to enjoy much which the Athenians enjoyed; and to\\nadmire many things which they admired. But Paul had that true wisdom\\nof which they knew nothing. He had learnt to know nothing among\\nmen save Jesus Christ, and him crucified and he could not feel happy\\nat Athens, beautiful as it was, because he saw the city wholly given to\\nidolatry. So Paul went about, among the Jews, and the Greeks too,\\nspeaking to them of Jesus and the resurrection. At last, some of the\\nphilosophers, or wise men, met him, and asked him to explain to them\\nwhat these new doctrines meant.\\nSo Paul stood on the top of a rock, called Mars Hill, and said, Ye\\nmen of Athens, as I passed by, and looked at the gods ye worship, I saw\\nan altar with this written on it To the Unknown God. Now this God\\nwhom ye ignorantly worship, him I preach unto you. The true God of\\nwhom I tell you, made the world, and all things that are in it; and he\\ngives to us life, and breath, and all things. And it is his will that we should\\nseek him, and feel after him, and find him for he is not far from any of\\nus for in him we live, and move, and have our being. Then we ought\\nnot to think that this great God is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, as\\nmany ignorantly do. God is now making himself known in all the world\\nand he commands people everywhere to repent, and to turn to him and", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0434.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 395\\nbelieve. For a da}- will come, when God will judge the world in righteous-\\nness, by that man whom he raised from the dead, even this same Jesus\\nthat I preach to you.\\nWhen Paul began to talk about the resurrection of the dead, some\\nmocked others said, We will hear thee again another time. So Paul\\ndeparted from them. Yet there were some, even in Athens, who believed\\nwhat Paul preached. Among them was a man named Dionysius, and a\\nwoman called Damaris, and others with them. And thus while Paul\\npreached Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the\\nGreeks foolishness, those who believed found Christ to be the power of\\nGod, and the wisdom of God.\\nSo Paul left Athens, and went to Corinth, another city in Greece.\\nThere he found a Jew named Aquila, who had just come from Italy with\\nhis wife Priscilla, because the Roman emperor had commanded all Jews to\\ngo away from Rome. Aquila and Priscilla were believing Jews, and very\\nkind and friendly to Paul so he went and stayed at their house. But\\nPaul, and Aquila, and Priscilla, did not live in idleness they had to work\\nfor their daily bread and as they were of the same trade, they worked\\ntogether for they were tentmakers.\\nThis is a lesson for us. God s people should be anxious to do good,\\nand be useful to others but they must remember, too, not to neglect their\\nown daily duties. If they are poor, as Paul and his friends were, they\\nshould work diligentty to get their own living, that they may not be\\ntroublesome to those around them. And if, while they work with their\\nhands, the} r think of God, and love him in their hearts, he will bless them\\nin everything they do. St. Paul sa} r s a great deal in his Epistles about\\nindustry and diligence and he reproves the idle and slothful, commanding\\nthem, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat\\ntheir own bread. And he sa}^s again, that if any would not work, neither\\nshould he eat.\\nEvery Sabbath da} P^ul went into the synagogue, and talked to the\\nJews and Greeks. The ruler of the synagogue, who was named Crispus,\\nattended to what Paul preached, and believed with all his family and so\\ndid many of the Corinthians. There were enemies of the gospel at Corinth,\\nas at other places but God appeared to Paul in a vision by night, and\\ntold him not to fear them. He said, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold\\nnot thy peace for I am with thee, and no man shall hurt thee for I have", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0435.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "396 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nmuch people in this city. This encouraged Paul so he stayed a year\\nand six mouths at Corinth, teaching the word of God to the people.\\nAt last the Jews were so angry with Paul, that they laid hold of\\nhim, and brought him before Gallio, the Roman governor of Achaia, to be\\njudged. The}- said, a This man teaches people to worship God contrary to\\nthe law. This was untrue; and Paul was just going to explain that what\\nhe preached was not contrary to the law but Gallio was impatient, and\\nwould not hear. He said, All this is no business of mine. I understand\\nnothing of your law you must look to the matter yourselves for I will\\nbe no judge of such things; and then he drove them away from the\\njudgment-seat. So the Greeks took Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue,\\na friend of Paul, and beat him but Gallio said nothing to them, for he\\ncared for none of these things.\\nGallio was not so persecuting and cruel as many of the enemies of\\nthe Gospel were but he was really, perhaps, as much an enemy as any\\nof them. He knew nothing of God, nor Christ, nor the way of salvation\\nand he wished to know nothing of them for Gallio cared for none of\\nthese things. But how sad it is to be careless about such matters\\nThey are far more necessary for us to care about than any worldly things\\nand at the day of judgment we shall find them to be so. All will care\\nfor these things then but at that awful time, caring for them will\\ndo no good: for it will be too late then to seek foi pardon, and salvation,\\nand eternal life in heaven. Let us care for the things that belong unto\\nthe Lord, and unto salvation, now; and then we shall be ready for death\\nand judgment, whenever they may come.\\nPaul stayed at Corinth some time after this and then he took\\nleave of the brethren there, and sailed towards Syria, with Priscilla and\\nAquila. A great many of the Corinthians became true believers in the\\nLord Jesus Christ and Paul loved them, and afterwards wrote them two\\nlong letters the two epistles to the Corinthians. These letters are full of\\ngood advice, and kind warnings, and faithful reproofs, too; for the Corin-\\nthians often did things which were wrong and Paul loved them too well\\nnot to tell them of their faults.\\nBut he did all in affection, and like a kind and wise father; and\\nthey received his advice and reproofs like obedient and affectionate children.\\nAnd then he comforted them when they were sorrowful, and prayed God\\nto comfort them too; and he ended his last letter by telling them how", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0436.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 397\\nthey might be truly happy happjr in this world, and eternally happy in\\nheaven Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect be of good comfort be\\nof one mind live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you.\\nOu his way to Syria, Paul stopped at Bphesus, and left Aquila and\\nPriscilla there and then he went on, promising soon to return if it should\\nbe the will of God. Another faithful minister came to Bphesus about this\\ntime a Jew, named Apollos. He was a sincere believer in the Lord\\nJesus Christ, and learned in the Scriptures, and bold, and diligent, and full\\nof love. But Apollos was young, and did not yet understand the way of\\nGod perfectly so Aquila and Priscilla used to ask him to their house\\nand then they talked to him about holy things, and explained to him\\nwhat he did not know before.\\nThis was very useful to Apollos for Aquila and Priscilla were older\\nthan he, and had served God longer, and had more knowledge. It was\\nright and kind of them to instruct him and Apollos was very grateful\\nfor their instructions. It is pleasant to see young people and older ones\\nliving as Priscilla and Aquila and Apollos did and it is the way in\\nwhich all Christians ought to live together.\\nAnd after a little time, Apollos left Bphesus, and went to other\\nplaces, preaching to the Jews, and showing by the Scriptures that Jesus\\nis the Christ and while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, after visiting\\nmany different countries, came again to Bphesus. There were many dis-\\nciples at Bphesus; but they had not yet received the Holy Ghost in that\\nwonderful way in which it had been given to many others. Their hearts\\nhad been changed and made new by the Spirit but they had not yet\\nbeen taught by him to speak with tongues, and to prophesy. So Paul,\\nafter he had baptized them in the name of the Lord Jesus, laid his hands on\\nthem, and prayed and then the Holy Ghost came upon them, and they\\nspoke with tongues, and prophesied. Paul stayed two years at Bphesus,\\npreaching and working miracles in the name of Jesus.\\nAt last, some of the unbelieving Jews in Bphesus pretended that\\nthey could do these wonders too so they called, over a man who had an\\nevil spirit, the name of Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom\\nPaul preacheth. But the evil spirit answered, Jesus I know, and Paul\\nI know; but who are ye? And the man who had the evil spirit leaped\\nupon them, and overcame them so they fled from the house wounded\\nand frightened. This was soon known among all the people at Bphesus", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0437.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "398 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nand many of them, when they heard it, believed for it showed them that\\nPaul worked miracles by the power of God, and that he was not a mere\\npretender, like those wicked, unbelieving Jews.\\nAnd many of those who had been magicians, or sorcerers, when they\\nbelieved the gospel, and found how foolish and sinful their arts were, r\\nbrought their books, and burnt them before all men. Those books were\\nfull of what was wicked, and could do good to no one so the Bphesians\\ndid right to burn them.\\nBut after a time, there was great trouble in the city of Ephesus;\\nfor the enemies of the truth began to persecute the disciples there, as in\\nother places. There was a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who\\nmade silver images of Diana, the idol-goddess of the Ephesians. Demetrius\\nwas an idolater, and he gained his living by this wicked trade of image-\\nmaking. But when the people of Ephesus became believers in the Lord\\nJesus Christ, they gave up their idolatry, and wanted no more silver images\\nfrom Demetrius. Then the silversmith began to fear that he should lose\\nhis business so he called together all the other silversmiths in the place r\\nand said to them, Sirs, you know that by this trade we have our wealth.\\nNow this Paul, who preaches here, is turning away the people from\\nthe worship of Diana, and telling them that those are no gods which are\\nmade with hands. So now our trade is thought nothing of; no one comes\\nto buy our silver images and the temple of our great goddess Diana is\\ndespised. Then those who heard what Demetrius said were very angry y\\nand cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. All the people in the\\ncity, when they heard the noise, came together and some of them caught\\nhold of two of the friends of Paul, and hurried them away. Paul wished\\nto go to them but his other friends would not let him put himself into\\ndanger: so they kept him safely.\\nThe tumult in the city lasted a long time. Some cried one thing,\\nand some another; and many did not know why they had come together\\nat all. Then a Jew, named Alexander, tried to defend himself; but as\\nsoon as he began to speak, the people cried out again, Great is Diana\\nof the Ephesians; and they would not attend to any thing he said, because\\nhe was a Jew. At last, the town cleric came out to quiet the people.\\nHe said to them, Ye men of Ephesus, all the world knows that the\\npeople of this city worship the great goddess Diana, and the image which\\nfell down from our god Jupiter; you need not cry out so loudly what every", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0438.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 399\\none believes. You ought to be quiet, aud do nothing hastily; for these\\nmen, whom you accuse, have done you no hurt they are not robbers of\\nchurches, nor blasphemers of your goddess. If Demetrius has any thing to\\nsay against them, let the matter be decided by law for we are in danger\\nof being called in question ourselves about this day s uproar. And when\\nthe town clerk had said this, he sent away the multitude. So all was quiet;\\nand then Paul called the disciples, and took leave of them, and departed.,\\nThe Bphesians were wise in many things yet they were so foolish,\\nand so ignorant, that they could believe the silly stories which they were\\ntaught about the goddess Diana, and the image which fell down from\\nJupiter. There are many heathen nations as foolish now. Let us pray-\\nthat God would send his gospel to them, and turn their hearts from idols\\nto serve the living and true God.\\nBut there were some true Christians among the Ephesians and to\\nthem Paul afterwards wrote a beautiful epistle, when he himself was a\\nprisoner at Rome. And in that letter he reminded them how wicked and\\nignorant they had once been and thanked God who had pardoned their\\nsins, and made them his own children through faith in Christ Jesus.\\nHe said, And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and\\nsins \u00e2\u0096\u00a0wherein, in times past, ye walked according to the course of this\\nworld. At that time ye were without Christ, having no hope, and without\\nGod in the world but now, in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were afar\\noff, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.\\nPaul went into Macedonia again; and after visiting other places, came\\nat last to Troas, on his way to Syria, and stayed there seven days. On\\nthe first day of the week, the disciples came together, and Paul preached\\nto them, ready to depart on the morrow. The first day of the week is our\\nSunday, the Christian Sabbath. The Jewish Sabbath was on the seventh\\nday of the week because on that day God rested from his work of crea-\\ntion, and blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it. But after Christ s\\nresurrection, the Sabbath was kept on the first day of the week; for Chris-\\ntians remember a still more glorious work which happened on that day. It\\nwas on the first day of the week that the Lord Jesus Christ arose from\\nthe grave, and so finished the work of our redemption.\\nIt was in the evening, when the little company of Christians at\\nTroas met together to hear Paul preach. They assembled in an upper\\nroom; there were many lights in the room; and as Paul had much to say", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0439.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "400 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nto the people, lie went on preaching till midnight. There sat in a window\\nof the room a young man named Eutychus and as Paul was long preach-\\ning, this young man fell asleep, and at last sank down with sleep, and\\nfell from the window, and was taken up dead.\\nAll the disciples were in great trouble, when they saw what had\\nhappened but Paul went down to the place where the dead body lay, and\\nfell on it, and prayed God to raise Eutychus to life again. And God, who\\nhad before raised the dead at the prayers of Elijah and Elisha, was pleased\\nto hear the prayer of Paul now, and to assure him that Eutychus should\\nlive again. So Paul said to those who were sorrowing around, Trouble\\nnot yourselves for his life is in him. Then Paul came up again, and ate\\nbread with the disciples, and talked to them till morning, and then departed.\\nPaul left Troas, and went on foot to Assos then he took ship, and\\nsailed to Miletus. He was anxious to be at Jerusalem on the day of\\nPentecost so he hastened on his journey from place to place. But he\\nwould not leave Miletus without seeing some very dear friends. These\\nwere the elders of the church of Ephesus. He sent for them, that he\\nmight talk to them once more, before he took leave of them for ever. So\\nwhen they were come, he spoke to them very affectionately and tenderly.\\nHe reminded them of all that he had said in times past and then told\\nthem, that now he was going to Jerusalem, not knowing what might hap-\\npen to him there.\\nBut he said, The Holy Ghost tells me that, in every place, bonds\\nand troubles await me. Yet none of these things move me neither think\\nI my life dear untc myself; I only wish to finish my course with joy, and\\nthe ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus. And now I know\\nthat all you among whom I have preached shall see my face no more.\\nRemember, then, what I have told you, and take care of the flock which\\nGod has given you to feed the church which he has bought with his own\\nblood. I know that wolves will soon come among you, and try to destroy\\nthat little flock. Enemies will come, and try to lead you away from the\\ntruth of the gospel. Watch, then, and pray and remember how I have\\nwarned you for three years, night and day, with tears. And now I give\\nyou up to God, and to the word of his grace for he is able to keep you,\\nand at last bring you safely to the inheritance he has prepared for them\\nthat are sanctified.\\nAnd when Paul had said this, he knelt down and prayed with them", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0440.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "PAUL TAKING LEAVE OF THE ELDERS OF EPHESUS.\\n26 401", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0441.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "402 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nall. And they wept sore, and fell on Paul s neck, and kissed him sor-\\nrowing most of all for the words that he spoke that they should see his\\nface no more. So they went with him to the ship then they again bid\\nhim farewell, and watched him for a long while, till at last the ship sailed\\nfar away be} 7 ond their sight, and they saw him no more.\\nOn his voyage to Jerusalem, Paul stopped at many places. He\\nstayed seven days at Tyre, where he found some disciples and when the\\ntime came for him to go away, these disciples all went with him to the\\nseashore and then they kneeled down, and prayed together. When they\\nhad taken leave of one another, the disciples returned home and Paul and\\nhis companions sailed on first to Ptolemais, and then to Csesarea.\\nWhile Paul was there, a prophet came from Judea, named Agabus.\\nThis prophet had been taught, by the Holy Spirit, the things which\\nshould happen to Paul at Jerusalem. So he took Paul s girdle, and bound\\nhis own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, so shall\\nthe Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owneth this girdle, and shall\\ngive him up to the Gentiles.\\nWhen the friends of Paul heard this, they all begged him not to go\\nto Jerusalem. They loved him very much, and could not bear that he\\nshould suffer; and they wished to keep him with them, if they could.\\nBut what Agabus prophesied did not frighten Paul, nor trouble him at all.\\nHe turned to his friends, who. were all weeping around him, and said,\\nWhat mean ye to weep, and to break my heart I am ready not only\\nto be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.\\nHis own sufferings he cared nothing for; but it troubled him very much\\nto see others in sorrow for his sake.\\nThere was no selfishness in Paul. His only care was to be useful\\nto others, and to glorify God in everything either by preaching the gos-\\npel, or by suffering and dying for it. So when his friends saw how deter-\\nmined he was, they did not try to persuade him any more; but only said,\\nThe will of the Lord be done. They knew that whatever God should\\nappoint must be right, though it might be painful to Paul, and to them\\nalso, for his sake and they left all to his will. And this is what we\\nought to do, in times of sorrow; we should say, Lord, not as we will,\\nbut as thou wilt.\\nSo Paul came to Jerusalem. The brethren there received him with\\ngreat joy but very soon, the unbelieving Jews began to persecute him, as", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0442.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\n40$\\n^^PMsoH-\\nAgabus had prophesied. They accused hiiu of speaking against the law,,\\nnot understanding what it was that he really preached and then they laid\\nhold of him in the Temple, and drew him out, and tried to kill him. All\\nJerusalem was in an uproar but at last the\\nRoman captain, Lysias, came out with some sol-\\ndiers and then they became quieter, and left off\\nbeating Paul. So Lysias took him, and bound\\nhim with two chains and then he asked the\\npeople who Paul was, and what he had done.\\nSome cried one thing and some another, and the\\nchief captain could not understand what they\\nmeant but he commanded Paul to be taken to\\nthe castle. As he was carried along by the sol-\\ndiers, the multitude followed, crying, Away with\\nhim just as many had cried when Christ him-\\nself was taken to be put to death. Paul was\\nnow hated, and despised, and persecuted for his\\nMaster s sake.\\nWhen they came to the castle, Paul said\\nto the chief captain, May I speak to thee?\\nPaul said this in the Greek language, which sur-\\nprised Lysias very much for he had thought all\\nthis time that Paul was an Egyptian, who had\\nmade a rebellion in the country some time before.\\nSo the chief captain said, Canst thou speak\\nGreek Art thou not the Egyptian who led into\\nthe wilderness four thousand men that were mur-\\nderers Then Paul answered, No I am a\\nJew, of Tarsus in Cilicia. I pray thee let me\\nspeak now to these people. So Lysias gave\\nhim leave and all the people stood quite still\\nto hear what Paul would say.\\nAnd what did Paul speak to them about? He\\ntold them his past history the wonderful stories which we have been reading,\\nof his cruelties to the Christians at first, and his conversion to the faith of\\nChrist afterwards, when going to Damascus and of the command which God\\ngave him, to go and preach to the Gentiles. The people heard Paul patiently\\nfo Kill Paul\\nMARE. PvtVVDV 2.00 _J\\nSOLDIERS r^m\\nTo GO To CESAREA -s^", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0443.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "404 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\ntill lie came to this, and then they grew very angry indeed. Why?\\nBecause, as Jews, they felt jealous of the Gentiles, and could not bear that\\nGod should show them any love or favor. This was a very bad, spirit\\nquite different from the spirit of the gospel, which tells us that there is no\\ndifference between Jews and Gentiles, but that all are one in Christ\\nJesus. But these Jews were not believers in the gospel of love and peace;\\nso the} r cried out, Away with this man it is not right that he should live.\\nThen the chief captain brought Paul into the castle, and commanded\\nthat he should be beaten. But while the} were binding him, Paul said to\\na centurion who stood by, Is it lawful to beat a man who is a Roman,\\nand uncondemned When the centurion heard this, he went to Lysias\\nand said, Take care what thou doest for this man is a Roman. Then\\nthe chief captain asked Paul himself, Art thou a Roman And he\\nanswered, Yes. Lysias began to be frightened at this; for it was\\nunlawful to treat a free citizen of Rome as Paul had been treated. So the\\nnext day, Lysias called together the chief priests and their council and\\nloosed Paul from his bonds, and brought him before them to be examined.\\nThen Paul began to defend himself, and said, Men and brethren,\\nI have lived honestly before God until this day. Paul did not mean\\nby this that he had never done anything to displease God for he well\\nknew how weak and sinful he was. But he meant that he had not done\\nthose things of which his enemies accused him, and that he did not\\ndeserve to be brought there to be judged.\\nThen the high priest, Ananias, commanded those that stood by to\\nsmite Paul upon the mouth. This was cruel and unjust too, and Paul\\nfelt that it was so he turned to Ananias, and said, God shall smite\\nthee, for sittest thou to judge me according to the law, and commandest\\nme to be smitten contrary to the law? Some of the standers by said,\\nRevilest thou God s high priest Then Paul answered, I did not\\nknow, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written in God s\\nlaw, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people. Paul remem-\\nbered, even before his cruel and unjust enemies, that he ought to give\\nlionor to those to whom honor is due. But what Paul said to Ananias\\nwas afterwards fearfully fulfilled. God did smite that wicked man.\\nAnanias was killed, some years after, in a rebellion headed by his own son.\\nPaul then began to speak of the resurrection of the dead. But as\\nsome of those who heard him were Pharisees, who believed in the resur-", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0444.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 405\\nrection, and some were Sadducees, who did not believe in it, they began to\\nquarrel among themselves and the confusion was so great, that Lysias\\nfeared that Paul would be torn to pieces by the multitude so he com-\\nmanded the soldiers to take him away, and carry him into the castle-\\nThat very night, the Lord stood by him, and said, Fear not, Paul; thou,\\nhast testified of me in Jerusalem, and so thou must also in Rome.\\nThe next day, some of the Jews made a conspiracy against Paul,\\nand determined that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed\\nhim. Then they went to the chief priests, and told them, and said, We\\nhave determined neither to eat nor drink till we have killed Paul. Now.\\nthen, to-morrow ask the chief captain to bring him down to you again\\nand we, before he come near, are ready to kill him. But God had deter-\\nmined that Paul should not die at Jerusalem, and he found a way of\\nescape for him.\\nIt happened that a nephew of Paul heard something of this con-\\nspiracy, and he went directly to the castle, and told his uncle. Then Paul\\ncalled a centurion, and asked him to take the young man to the chief\\ncaptain. So the centurion went with Paul s nephew to Lysias, and said,,\\nPaul, the prisoner, asked me to bring this young man to thee he has\\nsomething to tell thee. Then Lysias took Paul s nephew by the hand\\nand drew him aside, and said, What hast thou to tell me?\\nThe young man answered, The Jews are going to-morrow to ask\\nthee to bring Paul again into the council but do not yield to them for\\nthere are more than forty men who have made a vow neither to eat nor\\ndrink till they have killed him and now they are ready, looking for a\\npromise from thee. Then the chief captain told the young man to keep\\nall secret, and sent him away. As soon as he was gone Lysias called two\\ncenturions, and told them to make ready a number of soldiers, and horse-\\nmen, and spearsmen, and send them that night with Paul, to Csesarea, to\\nFelix, the governor.\\nThen he wrote a letter to Felix, telling him all about Paul, and\\nhow he had been accused, and how his enemies had conspired against him;\\nand he asked Felix to hear for himself what Paul had to say. So the\\nsoldiers did as they were commanded, and brought Paul to Caesarea, and\\ngave the letter to the governor. When Felix had read it, he said he would\\nhear Paul s defence as soon as his accusers were come, and commanded,\\nthat Paul should be kept in Herod s judgment-hall at Caesarea.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0445.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "406\\nTHE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nIu a few da} r s Ananias, the high priest, came to Csesarea, and with\\nhim a man named Tertnllns, one of Paul s enemies. Then Paul was\\ncalled out, and brought before Felix and Tertullus began to accuse him,\\nas others had done, of despising the temple, and troubling the Jewish\\npeople. All the Jews who heard Tertullus speak agreed with him, and\\nsaid that what he had spoken was true. Then Paul defended himself,\\nsaying that his enemies falsely accused him of making a tumult or dis-\\nturbance in Jerusalem. But there was one thing they accused him of,\\nwhich he confessed was quite true and that was his preaching about the\\nresurrection of the dead.\\nfA\\\\!h ^EFcTrTe Feu* and pRUSILLA.\\nThen Felix said he would\\nhear Paul again another\\ntime so he commanded\\nthe centurion to keep him,\\nbut to treat him kindly,\\nand to let his friends\\ncome and see him.\\nAfter some days, Felix\\nsent for Paul again, and\\nheard him speak about\\nthe faith in Christ.\\nAnd as Paul reasoned\\nof righteousness, temper-\\nance, and judgment to\\ncome, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time when I\\nhave a convenient season I will call for thee. And Felix used often to\\nsend for him, and hear him talk hoping that Paul would offer him money,\\nthat he might loose him. But we do not read that Felix ever found a\\nconvenient season for seeking to become righteous, and -ready for the\\njudgment to come, though he trembled so much when Paul spoke to him\\nof these things.\\nPerhaps Felix thought, I will attend to all this another day; there\\nis time enough yet and so he put off repentance till it was too late and\\nat last died without pardon, and without hope. Learn from Felix to attend\\nto heavenly things now; and not to wait for a more convenient season.\\nThe Bible tells us that the best season is the present Now is the\\naccepted time now is the day of salvation.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0446.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 407\\nAfter two years a new governor came to Caesarea, named Festus\\nand Felix went away, leaving Panl bonnd. Then the Jews told Festus all\\nabout Paul and Festus commanded that he should be brought before his\\njudgment-seat. Paul again answered for himself, that he had done nothing\\nagainst the Jews, nor against their law, nor their temple and then he said\\nthat he wished to be judged by Caesar, the Roman emperor.\\nPaul bore all his sufferings patiently, but he wished for justice; he\\nhad a right, as a Roman citizen, to be judged by Caesar and he thought\\nthis the best way of saving himself from his cruel enemies, the Jews.\\nFestus was willing that it should be so. He said, Hast thou appealed\\nunto Cassar? unto Caesar shalt thou go. But after some days king\\nAgrippa came to Caesarea with his sister Bernice, to see Festus. This\\nAgrippa was son of the wicked Herod who put Peter into prison. He was\\nking of Judea, Galilee, Samaria, and some other places.\\nFestus told Agrippa a great deal about the prisoner Paul, and\\nAgrippa became very anxious to see him so the next day, when Agrippa,\\nand Bernice, and the chief captains, and the nobles of the city, were come\\ninto the place of hearing, Festus commanded that Paul should be brought\\nbefore them and then Agrippa said to him, Thou art permitted to speak\\nfor thyself. So Paul stretched out his hand, and answered for himself.\\nHe told them all his histor}^ how he was brought up, how he at\\nfirst hated and persecuted the Christians and how, at last, he was con-\\nverted, and became a Christian himself, and a preacher of the Gospel.\\nAnd then he told them what it was he preached. It was about the Lord\\nJesus Christ, of whom Moses and the prophets wrote, who died for sinners,\\nand rose again the third day. When Paul said this, Festus cried out, with\\na loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make\\nthee mad. For Festus did not believe what Paul said.\\nBut Paul answered calmly, I am not mad, most noble Festus, but\\nspeak the words of truth and soberness. And then he turned to Agrippa\\nand said, The king knoweth these things; they are not hidden from him.\\nKing Agrippa, believest thou the prophets I know that thou believest.\\nFor Agrippa professed the Jewish religion, and had often heard and read\\nAloses and the prophets. Agrippa felt the power of what Paul said, and\\nanswered, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. Then Paul\\nsaid, I would to God, that not only thou, but all those who hear me this\\nday, were both almost and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0447.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "408 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nWhen he had spoken these words, Agrippa, and Bernice, and Festus,\\nand all the company, rose lip, and went apart by themselves, and began\\nto talk together about Paul. They agreed that he was innocent but as\\nhe had appealed to Caesar, it was determined that he should be sent to\\nRome. And did Agrippa become a Christian No we do not read that\\nhe ever did. He was half inclined to believe almost determined to love\\nthe Saviour whom Paul loved but he never was, we may fear, really and\\ntruly a Christian. And therefore, like Felix, when death came, Agrippa\\nwas not ready for it his sins were not pardoned his heart was not made\\nnew and he died without hope, notwithstanding all he had felt and\\nwished, perhaps, when Paul preached to him.\\nLet this sad story teach you to be decided in religion and to be\\ndecided at once. Choose ye this day whom ye will serve and pray\\nthat you may be enabled to say with all your heart, as Joshua did, As\\nfor me, I will serve the Lord.\\nWhen all was ready, Paul and some of his fellow-prisoners were\\ngiven up to the care of a centurion, and began their voyage towards Rome.\\nAs they sailed along, they touched at Sidon; and the centurion kindly\\nallowed Paul to go on shore, and see his friends, and refresh himself.\\nThen they left Sidon, and passed by Cyprus, and sailed over the seas of\\nCilicia and Pamphylia, and came to Myra in Lycia. There the centurion\\nfound another ship sailing to Italy, so he put the prisoners into it. Then\\nthey sailed very slowly for some days, for the wind was against them*\\nand at last they came to Crete, to a place called the Fair Havens.\\nIt was now late in the year, and sailing became dangerous, because\\nof the storms which were very common and very violent in those seas;\\nso Paul called to those in the ship, and said, Sirs, I see that this voyage\\nwall be with much hurt and danger, not only to the ship, but also to our\\nlives. But most of them were anxious to sail to Phenice, another haven\\nof Crete, and there to winter. So they would not attend to Paul, who\\nwished them to stay quietly where they were but as the south wind blew\\nsoftly, they loosed from the Fair Havens, and sailed close by Crete.\\nNot long after, a stormy wind arose, and the ship -was tossed about\\nupon the waves, and the sky became black with clouds, and they saw\\nneither sun nor stars for many days. Then they wished they had taken\\nPaul s advice but it was too late now. So they cast their goods out of\\nthe ship, to lighten it, and thought only how they might save their lives.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0448.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\n409\\nSoon all nope was taken away every one was in terror, expecting that\\nthe ship must sink, and that they would be swallowed up in the deep\\nwaters, and rise no more.\\nBut Paul was peaceful and happy still; and when the others were\\nso much frightened, he stood in the midst of them,\\nand said, Fear not there shall be no loss of any\\nman s life, but only of the ship. For there stood by\\nme this night the angel of God, whose I am, and\\nwhom I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul, thcu must be\\nbrought before Caesar and God has given thee all\\nthem that sail in the ship with thee. Be of good\\ncomfort, then for I believe God, that it shall be as it\\nwas told me. But we must be cast on a certain island.\\nSoon after, the shipmen found that they were\\ncoming near to some country. Then they feared they\\nmight fall upon the rocks, as it was now night, so\\nthey cast out their anchors, and wished for day. The\\nsailors wanted to leave the ship, and escape in a boat\\nbut Paul said to the centurion and soldiers, If these\\nmen do not stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.\\nSo the soldiers prevented these selfish men from leaving\\nthe ship, at a time when they were wanted so much.\\nThen Paul comforted them, and told them to take\\nsome meat, for they had fasted a long time, and he\\ngave thanks to God before them all, and broke bread,\\nund ate.\\nWhen it was da}^ they found themselves close\\nto the land. They did not know what the name of\\nthe country was, nor who lived in it; but they deter-\\nmined to seek safety there. The cruel soldiers wanted\\nto kill the prisoners, fearing that some of them might\\nswim out and escape. But the centurion was willing\\nto save Paul, and would not let the soldiers do as\\nthey wished.\\nThe ship was now almost broken to pieces by the violence of the\\nwaves; so the centurion commanded that those who could swim should cast\\nthemselves first into the sea, and get to land and the rest, some on", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0449.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "410 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nboards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass,\\nthat they all escaped safe to land.\\nA storm at sea is a very fearful thing. The Psalmist tells us so,\\nwhen he says, They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business\\nin great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the\\ndeep. For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up\\nthe waves thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to\\nthe depths their soul is melted because of trouble. They cry unto the\\nLord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. Then\\nare they glad because they be quiet so he bringeth them to the haven\\nwhere they would be.\\nYou may never have seen a storm at sea, and perhaps you never\\nwill. But there are storms of another kind, which we must all meet with\\nsome time or other. Life is like a voyage, and troubles and sorrows are\\nlike the storms and tempests on the sea. At the beginning of life, every-\\nthing, perhaps, looks fair and sunny; and young people think it will\\nalways be so: just as these shipmen thought that their voyage would be\\nsafe and pleasant, when the south wind blew softly.\\nBut a storm soon came upon them, and so sorrow will come upon\\nus; for, as the Bible says, we are born to trouble. And what can comfort\\nus then Only what comforted Paul, and what comforted the poor disciples\\nwhen they were tossed upon the waves in the sea of Galilee believing\\nthat Christ is near, saying, Fear not it is I be not afraid. If he is\\nwith us, we need fear none of the storms of life; for he will keep us in\\nthem all, and bring us safely through the waves of this troublesome\\nworld, to the land of everlasting life.\\nPaul and his companions soon found that the land to which they\\nhad escaped was called Melita. It is an island in the Mediterranean Sea,\\nsouth of Sicily, and is now called Malta. The people then living at Melita\\nwere ignorant heathens but they were very kind to the poor shipwrecked\\npeople for they lighted a fire, and invited them to come and warm them-\\nselves by it, because of the rain and cold. So Paul gathered some sticks,\\nand threw them on the fire, and they all stood round warming themselves.\\nBut Paul, and the others, had not seen a viper which was hid among\\nthe sticks and now the heat brought it out, and it fastened upon Paul s\\nhand. When the heathens saw this, they said one to another, No doubt\\nthat man is a murderer; he has escaped from the sea; but he will be", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0450.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "PAUL KEEPS THE SAILORS ON BOARD THE SHIP.\\n411", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0451.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "412 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\npunished for his wickedness here he will not be suffered to live. But\\nPaul shook off the viper into the fire, and felt no hurt. The islanders\\nlooked on for a long time, thinking that Paul would certainly die but\\nwhen they found that he was not hurt, they changed their minds, and said\\nhe must be a god. These poor people were sadly ignorant, but Paul was\\nable and willing to teach them better; and so he did.\\nOne of the chief men in the island was named Publius. He was\\nvery kind to Paul, and lodged him in his house three days. The father\\nof Publius was very ill of a fever; so Paul went in to see him, and prayed,\\nand laid his hands on him, and healed him. When the people heard of\\nthis, many others came to Paul to be cured, and he did good to them all.\\nBut Paul was most anxious to do good to their souls; so he used to speak\\nto them of the Lord Jesus Christ, the good physician, who could heal them\\nof a disease much worse than any bodily sickness. We may believe that\\nmany of these poor islanders became true Christians, through the preaching\\nof Paul and this made him so happy, that he forgot all his past\\nsufferings and dangers.\\nAfter three months, Paul and his companions took leave of their\\nkind friends at Melita, and sailed in a new ship to Rome. There were\\nsome Christians at Rome, to whom Paul had before written the epistle to\\nthe Romans and when these Christians heard that he was coming, they\\nwent to meet him, as far as Appii Forum. Paul was very glad to see\\nthem, and thanked God, and took courage.\\nThen they all went on to Rome. As soon as they were come there,\\nthe centurion delivered the other prisoners to the captain of the guard;\\nbut Paul was suffered to live by himself, with a soldier that kept him. A\\ngreat many Jews came to see Paul and he told them all that had hap-\\npened to him, and why he was sent to Rome for they had heard nothing\\nof it before. Then they asked him to tell them those things which, lit\\npreached, and for which he was accused so he invited them to his lodg-\\ning, and there spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and about Jesus\\nthe Messiah teaching them from the law of Moses and the prophets, from\\nmorning until evening. And some believed the things which were\\nspoken, and some believed not. Paul spoke very faithfully and solemnly\\nto the unbelievers and then they departed. Perhaps they never again\\nheard the Gospel preached to them.\\nPaul stayed in his own house at Rome two years, teaching those", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0452.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 413\\ntilings which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, no man forbidding him. He\\nwrote many of his epistles while at Rome. Besides those of which we\\nhave read before, he sent one to the Colossians, and another to Titus, the\\nfirst bishop of Crete; it is thought also that the epistle to the Hebrews, or\\nJewish Christians, was written by Paul. Thus he could be useful even\\nwhen a prisoner and he was enabled to bear all his sufferings with\\npatience, knowing that he was the prisoner of the Lord; an ambas-\\nsador in bonds for Christ s sake and he could say, even with joy, for\\nthe hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.\\nOne of the last letters that Paul wrote, was the epistle to Philemon.\\nPhilemon was a rich man of Colosse, who had learnt to believe the Gospel\\nfrom hearing Paul preach. Philemon had a servant named Onesimus but\\nthis servant was very unlike his good master, and very unlike what ser-\\nvants should be. He was a dishonest and wicked man. He stole some of\\nPhilemon s property, and then ran away with it, and escaped to Rome.\\nBut while there, Onesimus heard Paul preach and God blessed what was\\nsaid, so that it brought Onesimus to repent of his sins, and to ask for\\npardon through Jesus Christ, and for grace to serve God for the time to\\ncome. Thus Onesimus became a true Christian and then he wished to\\ngo back to his master, and tell him how sorry he was, and ask for forgiveness.\\nBut perhaps Onesimus felt half afraid at first, lest Philemon should\\nnot receive him, nor believe what he said. So Paul wrote a letter, telling\\nPhilemon all about Onesimus, and asking him to forgive him and then\\nhe sent the servant with it to Colosse. Paul said in this letter, I beseech\\nthee for vij son Onesimus, which in time past was unprofitable, but now\\nprofitable to thee and to me whom I have sent again. Thou therefore\\nreceive him not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved.\\nFor Onesimus was now a believer in Jesus, as well as Philemon and in\\nChrist there is neither bond nor free; for all are one in him; therefore\\nPhilemon was not only to pardon his servant, but to love him too.\\nPaul remembered that Onesimus had injured Philemon; he had\\nstolen some of his property and perhaps Onesimus was not now able to\\nrepay him though, no doubt, he would try to do so, if he could so Paul\\nsaid, If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee anything, put that on my\\naccount I will repay it. How kind and generous Paul was And we\\nmay believe that Philemon was kind and generous too, and that he re-\\nceived Onesimus, and forgave and forgot all his past wickedness, and did", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0453.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "414 THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nnot wish to be repaid by Paul. For Philemon himself owed much to Paul,\\nmore than he could ever pay; he had learnt from him to seek the sal-\\nvation of his soul.\\nWhat became of Paul at last We are now very near the end of\\nhis history. After two years, he was set free and then he visited those\\nplaces where he had formed churches and warned, and advised, and com-\\nforted the Christians in them. Paul also went to other and more distant\\ncountries. It is thought that he travelled even as far as England, and\\nwas the first who preached the gospel in Britain. At last he returned\\nto Rome. He was now very old. When he wrote to Philemon, he called\\nhimself Paul the aged and he had long been looking forward to death,\\nto a violent and cruel death but he looked forward to it with peace and joy.\\nHe said to Timothy, I am now ready to be offered, and the time\\nof my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished\\nmy course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a\\ncrown of righteousness, which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, shall give\\nme at that day. And now the time was come for Paul to be offered. He\\nhad labored, and preached, and suffered for Christ and at last he died for\\nhis sake. He was beheaded at Rome, by the command of Nero, the\\nwicked and cruel emperor. We are not told anything about his last hours,\\nand his dying words but we know that he must have died happily, be-\\ncause he died trusting in Christ, and for his sake and now he has re-\\nceived a crown of glory that fadeth not away.\\nWhat happened to the other apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ\\nAll suffered, and most of them were put to death, for their Master s sake.\\nPeter, after laboring and preaching much, particularly among the Jews,\\nand writing two beautiful epistles, was crucified in his old age, as Christ\\nhad foretold. He remembered his Saviour s words, Follow me; and he\\ndid follow him faithfully, even unto death.\\nJames was slain by Herod, as we read before. The other James,\\ncalled the Less, Andrew, Thomas, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon,\\nJude, and Matthias, were put to death at different places, and in different\\nways. James the Less wrote an epistle so also did Jude.\\nThomas, it is supposed, went as far as Persia and India, and preached\\nto the heathens in those countries and was, at last, put to death by the\\nidolatrous Brahmins, or priests of India. Yet God blessed the labors of his\\nfaithful servant and martyr, even long after his death. Churches were", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0454.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES. 415\\nformed among the wild mountains of India and Christians are still found\\nthere, who, it is thought, are descended from those first converted by the\\npreaching of Thomas.\\nThe apostle who lived the longest was John, the disciple whom\\nJesus loved. He was not put to death, as the others were but he was\\ncruelly persecuted, and at last sent to the isle called Patmos, far away\\nfrom his country and his friends. But John had the peace of God in his.\\nheart, and therefore he could be contented and happy even in a desert island.\\nOne Lord s day, the first day of the week, the Christian Sabbath,.\\nJohn was sitting alone, thinking on heavenly things. He could not go\\nnow to the house of God, and worship there with his people but John\\ncould still keep the Sabbath in his own heart he was in the Spirit on\\nthe Lord s day. Suddenly he heard behind him a great voice, like the\\nsound of a trumpet and turning round, he saw standing by him one\\nlike unto the Son of man. It was the Lord Jesus Christ himself, who-\\nhad come to comfort his servant John but he did not now look as he\\nhad done when he was on earth, as a man of sorrows, when John saw\\nhim suffering in the garden of Gethsemane, and on the cross of Calvary.\\nHe appeared now in glory. His head and his hairs were white like\\nwool, as white as snow and his eyes were as a flame of fire and his\\nfeet like unto fine brass and his voice as the sound of many waters and\\nhis countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.\\nThe sight was too bright and glorious for John to bear, and he fell at\\nhis feet as dead, as he had done once before, when Jesus appeared in glory\\nat his transfiguration. But Jesus laid his hand on John, and said, Fear\\nnot I am the first and the last I am he that liveth and was dead and\\nbehold I am alive for evermore. Amen. Then John was comforted for\\nhe felt that Jesus was still the same as merciful and full of love now, as\\nwhen John had followed him, and listened to his words, so many years before.\\nJesus never changes. He is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.\\nThe book of Revelation is very difficult to explain, and can only in\\npart be understood by those who are of riper years, and who well study\\nand pray over it. The prophecies are written in dark terms, on purpose,,\\nbecause otherwise all the world would know them and they are only\\ndesigned to be a guide to those who wish to know the mind of God, and\\nto mark his providence in his dealings with his Church.\\nI cannot therefore attempt to do more than to tell you that most of", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0455.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "41 G THE STORY OF THE APOSTLES.\\nthe language here used is the language of signs that is, certain things are\\nmade to mean other things. John, in his inspired visions, saw all that he\\nstates but then what he saw only represented realities in other forms.\\nJohn wrote several Epistles. The first was called general, because\\nit was not sent to any particular church or person. The design of writing\\nit was to promote brotherly love, to warn against doctrines that allowed\\nmen to live in sin, and give clear notions of the nature of God, and the\\ndivine glory of Jesus Christ. There is an anecdote of this apostle worthy\\nof being remembered, both by young and old, whom the venerable John\\nwas used to address alike by the tender names of little children. It is\\nsaid, in some early histories, that he spent his last days at Ephesus, where\\nhe died and that, when he was too old to walk, he was carried to the\\nplace of worship in the arms of some of the disciples. He could then only\\nspeak a few words very feebly and these words always were, Little\\nchildren, love one another.\\nThe Second Epistle of John is not called general. It was written\\nto a pious lady. The scope of it is to urge this pious lady to hold fast\\nher Christian faith, to avoid error, and to love God and those who loved him.\\nThe Third Bpistle of John was to a particular person also. His\\nname was Gaius or Caius, and, most likely, the same mentioned by the\\napostle Paul for his kindness in receiving, and lodging, and entertaining\\ngood people. See the sixteenth chapter of Romans, near the end. In this\\nEpistle, John speaks of one Diotrephes, who was a very haughty man,\\nwhich was not a proper mark of a Christian, and of one Demetrius, who\\nhad a good report of all men, as every Christian should have, as far as\\nrespects his life, temper, and behavior. The former he mentions, that Gaius\\nmay not imitate him and the latter he holds up as an excellent example.\\nWe should always imitate the example of the truly wise and good.", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0456.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3192", "width": "2048", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0457.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3239", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0458.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0459.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3412", "width": "2444", "jp2-path": "beautifulbiblest00pres_0460.jp2"}}