{"1": {"fulltext": "F\\nKjp\\nFOR YOUNG PEOPLE\\nWith Illustrations in CO", "height": "4287", "width": "3172", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap. Copyright No*_\\nBhelfJ3Xa02.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERJCA.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S\\nLIFE OF CHRIST", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "JESUS QUESTIONING THE DOCTORS.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S\\nLIFE OF CHRIST\\nWITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLORS\\n1*\\nN E\u00c2\u00a5 YORK\\nGILBERT H. McKIBBLN\\nMDCCCXCIX", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES RECEIVED,\\nLibra* s%\\nOffice o f the\\nJAN 27 1900\\nhegister of Copyrights\\n,C5\\n51954\\nCopyright, 1899,\\nBy G. H. McKIBBIN\\nSECOND GOf\\nPrinted by the Manhattan Press,\\n474 W Broadway, Neiv York\\nJV\\\\5 -V^^S", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE,\\nIt is delightful to witness the deep interest which\\nchildren take in the History of their Saviour; they\\nare earl/ attracted and sweetly riveted by the\\nwonderful Story of the Master from the Manger\\nto the Throne.\\nIf God has implanted in the infant heart a desire\\nto hear of Jesus, surely it behooves the friends of\\nlittle children (whom Jesus delighted so to gather\\naround him) to bring together from Scripture\\nevery incident, expression, and description within\\nthe verge of their comprehension, and to weave\\nthem into a memorial garland of their Saviour.\\nChildren will gaze with admiring love upon each\\nwondrous act and word from the pure snow-drop\\nof innocence in the manger to the passion-flower of\\nagony in the Garden of Gethsemane, and thence to\\nthe glorious Ascension of our Divine Saviour into\\nHeaven.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 PREFACE.\\nThe command given by our Lord to those He\\nsent forth was to Preach and Teach. We, in\\nthis little book, humbly try to follow in their steps.\\nWe have introduced a profusion of illustrations, re-\\ngarding them as being very important in a narra-\\ntive of occurrences so distant from this modern life\\nof ours, both in time and place.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S\\nLIFE OF CHEIST.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nPALESTINE AT THE BIRTH OF OUR LORD THE ANNUNCIA-\\nTION TO MAKY THE SAVIOUR BORN IN BETHLEHEM\\nTHE WISE MEN AND THE STAR.\\nVery far away from our own country lies the\\nland where Jesus Christ was born. More than five\\nthousand miles stretch between us and it. It rests\\nin the very heart and centre of the Old World, en-\\ncircled by Asia, Europe, and Africa. A little land,\\nit is only about two hundred miles in length and\\nbut fifty miles broad; but its hills and valleys, its\\ndusty roads and green pastures, its vineyards and\\nolive yards, and its village streets have been trod-\\nden by the feet of our Lord and for us, as well as\\nfor the Jews, it is the Holy Land.\\nNearly nineteen hundred years ago there lived in\\nthe quiet town of Nazareth a pious Jewish maiden\\nher name was Mary. She was going to be married", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nto a poor man named Joseph, who was a carpenter\\nby trade. Though living thus in humble life, they\\nwere of the royal family of Judah, and were the\\ndescendants of King David.\\nThe Jews were very particular to keep exact lists\\nof the names of their families genealogies they\\ncalled them and these lists went back for many\\nhundred years.\\nThough Joseph and Mary belonged to the royal\\nfamily of David, yet they lived in Nazareth of Gali-\\nlee, far away from King David s city, Bethlehem.\\nThe Roman Emperor Augustus had conquered\\nPalestine and put a king of his own choosing on the\\nthrone of Judah. His name was Herod the Great\\nand he was obliged to rule as the emperor ordered.\\nWe now go back to Nazareth, and see Mary, who\\nis sitting alone in her own house. A glorious\\nvisitor stands before her, and says, Peace be with\\nyou, Mary. Be glad, for the Lord is with you, and\\nhas blessed you more than any other woman. Mary\\nsaw that her bright visitor was an angel of God,\\nand she felt troubled at his saying. What did it\\nmean, why was he sent to her? she asked herself.\\nThen the angel told her not to fear; for he came\\nto tell her that God would send her a baby a\\nwonderful baby. It would be no other than Jesus,\\nthe long-promised Saviour of the world.\\nOh, how long the world had waited for this Seed\\nof the woman, which was to undo the mischief\\ncaused by Satan, according to the promise made\\nthousands of years ago to Adam and Eve! And", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 11\\nhow often from that time had the prophets foretold\\nhis coming, how a maiden should have a son, who\\nwould be Christ the Lord\\nMary had heard all these wonderful sayings of\\nGod, and she was glad to find that, of all the\\nwomen of Israel, she was the one chosen to be the\\nmother of this child.\\nBut the old prophets said that this child was to\\nbe born at Bethlehem, whereas Mary lived at Naz-\\nareth. This old saying, however, came exactly\\ntrue in a strange way.\\nThe Emperor Augustus, who was the master of\\nthe land of Palestine, said that he wanted a list of\\nthe names of every man and woman, their ages,\\ntheir rank, and their trades, throughout the land.\\nThis list was called a census and was taken every\\nten years.\\nHerod was to make out the list; and he said, to\\nprevent mistakes, he must take the people accord-\\ning to the tribe to which they belonged. Every\\none was, therefore, obliged to go to the city to\\nwhich his tribe or family belonged, however trouble-\\nsome or however far it might be for some of them.\\nThey could not help it the will of Augustus was\\nlaw and had to be obeyed.\\nYes, into every city, into every town, into every\\nvillage, there came a messenger to say, Ever} 7 one\\nmust go to his right place, to have his name put\\ndown in the list for the Emperor.\\nNow Joseph and Mary belonged to the family of\\nDavid, of the tribe of Judah; so they had to go to", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nBethlehem, for that was David s city, to have their\\nnames written down.\\nIt was about sixty miles from Nazareth to Beth-\\nlehem, a very long journey in those days.\\nHow tired they are, and how glad to see the\\nwhite walls of the little city through the olive trees\\nand vines which grew around it\\nIt is evening, and the city is full, for others, like\\nthem, have come from a distance to be registered.\\nThey go to the inn, but there is no place for them\\nwhere shall they sleep for the night?\\nThe master of the inn pities them, and says, They\\nmay rest in the stable for the night. How glad\\nJoseph and Mary are even of that lowly place!\\nThere is straw for them to lie upon, and a roof over\\ntheir heads; but that is all. The oxen and asses\\nare around them, and many are going and coming;\\nbut they are thankful, after their long and weary\\njourney, to find any shelter in Bethlehem.\\nThat night the old saying of Micah the prophet\\ncame true; for there, at Bethlehem, did God send\\nto Mary the promised baby. Yes, that night was\\nthe most wonderful and most joyous in the world s\\nhistory, for then was born the Son of God.\\nMary took her baby, and dressed him in some long\\nclothes, called swaddling clothes, and laid him in a\\nmanger. She had no soft cradle near she dared\\nnot lay him on the ground, lest the beasts should\\ntread on him, so she put him into one of the troughs\\nfrom which the cattle ate their food.\\nOn the night that Jesus was born in Bethlehem,", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nsome shepherds were watching their flocks in the\\nfields around the city.\\nMore than a thousand years before had David,\\nwhen a lad, kept his father s sheep in the very same\\nplace. Now, these shepherds were guarding their\\nflocks from the wolves and foxes, which still lived\\nin the hills and woods of Palestine.\\nAll at once, they see a strange bright light. It\\nis night, so it is not the sun nor is it the moon\\nnor the stars. Brighter than the brightest day is\\nthis light from Heaven.\\nThe glory of the Lord shines round about them.\\nNo wonder they are afraid. Then an angel spoke\\nto them, and said, Fear not: for behold, I bring\\nyou good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all\\npeople. For unto you is born, in the city of David,\\na Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. He is a new-\\nborn baby, lying in a manger at the inn of Beth-\\nlehem. Go, and you will find him.\\nNow they saw in the sky a great number of\\nangels, who filled the air with their praises; and\\nthe shepherds heard the words of the angels cradle-\\nsong. It was this:\\nGlory to God in the highest,\\nOn earth peace, and good-will to men.\\nHaving sung this song, the angels went back to\\nHeaven the light faded away, and all was dark as\\nbefore.\\nThe shepherds now began talking together about\\nthese strange sights and sounds. And they said,", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST, 15\\nLet us go the nearest way to Bethlehem, and see\\nthis thing which has come to pass.\\nThey did not say, Let us wait till morning, be-\\ncause of our flocks no, the event was so great they\\ncould not wait till then to see its truth.\\nAt once, they went to the inn of Bethlehem, into\\nthe court-yard, around which were the stables.\\nThere, even as the angels had said, and as they ex-\\npected to find, was the babe lying in a manger,\\nwith Mary and Joseph by his side.\\nSaid they to Mary, This baby is the Saviour of\\nthe world, the long-promised Messiah we knew\\nwe should find him here, for God has sent his angels\\nto-night to tell us of his birth. The whole air was\\nfilled with music from Heaven, and we heard the\\nangels sing,\\nGlory to God in the highest,\\nOn earth peace, and good-will\\nto men.\\nMary, like all other mothers, kept these sayings\\nabout her baby like treasures in her heart. Often\\nand often, in after years, did she think over all the\\nstrange things that had happened at the birth of\\nthis child.\\nThe shepherds could not stay any longer in Beth-\\nlehem, for their flocks were alone; but they told\\nmany in the city what they had heard and seen.\\nEvery one who heard the good news wondered at\\nthe things which were told them by the shepherds.\\nMany heard but all did not believe. As it was\\nthen, so it is now.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nTo you is the Saviour sent do you know it and\\ndo you love him?\\nMany pious men in Israel were at this time look-\\ning for the birth of a great Prince, and this expecta-\\ntion was shared in by many people in other parts of\\nthe world.\\nIn one of the countries east of Palestine, probably\\nArabia, there lived some Wise Men magi, sages,\\nor, perhaps, priests. As they lived near the bor-\\nders of the old kingdom of Chaldea, no doubt they\\nhad heard of the prophecy of Daniel in which he\\nspoke of the coming, about this time, of Messiah\\nthe Prince, to whom should be given glory and a\\nkingdom.\\nOr they had most likely heard from the children\\nof Moab, whose country was also near theirs, of the\\nsaying of Balaam, I shall see him, but not now;\\nI shall behold him, but not nigh. There shall come\\na Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of\\nIsrael. Out of Jacob shall come he that hath\\ndominion.\\nIt was more than fourteen hundred years before\\nthat these words were spoken, and now that Star\\nhas arisen.\\nThese Eastern sages were one night looking at\\nthe sli3 r studying, as was their way, the movements\\nof the stars. As they gazed into the quiet depths\\nof the midnight sky, they saw a new bright star.\\nIs this the star of Jacob s Euler? said they; surely\\nit is the sign of that Great King s coming! With\\nfeelings of awe and wonder they continued to gaze", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THE STAR IN THE EAST.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\non. At last they said, We will go to Jerusalem,\\nwhere the God of Israel has his temple and per-\\nhaps there we shall hear that he has come. We\\nwill go and worship him, and will take some gifts\\nfor his acceptance.\\nWhen they reached Jerusalem, they earnestly\\nasked the people whom they met, Where is he that\\nis born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star\\nin the East, and are come to worship him\\nKing Herod and the people of Jerusalem had not\\nyet heard of his birth, and these inquiries of the\\nWise Men troubled them.\\nHerod was afraid. The King of the Jews, did\\nthe Wise Men say? Perhaps he will one day take\\naway my crown, and himself sit upon the ancient\\nthrone of David. Thus thought this wicked king.\\nHerod became more and more frightened, for he\\nmust have heard something of the old prophecies,\\nwhich people were expecting to be fulfilled. His\\nown conscience must have troubled him, too, as the\\nthought of many of his crimes arose in his mind.\\nBut he need not have feared this King of the Jews,\\nfor his kingdom was to.be one over the hearts of\\nmen: it was not of this world.\\nThen Herod said, Call all the men together who\\nare wise in the Hebrew Scriptures.\\nThen the chief priests, and the scribes, who were\\nthe writers of the law, met together at Herod s\\ncommand. Tell me where your writings say that\\nChrist should be born, demanded he.\\nThey quickly answered, In Bethlehem of Judea,", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 19\\nas they unrolled the parchment on which Micah s\\nancient prophecy was written.\\nThey showed him the words most plainly writ-\\nten, But thou, Bethlehem-Ephratah, though thou\\nbe little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of\\nthee shall he come forth unto me, that is to be Kuler\\nin Israel.\\nIt is enough said Herod and he sent for the\\nWise Men. He asked them when they had first\\nseen the star, for he felt sure that it was the star of\\nthe King of Israel. Go, said he, to Bethlehem, for\\nit is there, and not at Jerusalem, that the prophets\\nsay this child is to be born. When you have found\\nhim, come back and tell me, that I also may go and\\nworship him.\\nThese Eastern sages now turned from Jerusalem\\nto go to Bethlehem, which was a few miles off.\\nThey felt quite sure now that they were walking in\\nthe right road, for lo! they saw again the beautiful\\nstar that they had seen in their own land. Exceed-\\ning great was their joy; and the star never left\\nthem again till they came to the place where the\\nyoung child was.\\nThey went to the house in which Joseph and\\nMary now lived, and there they saw the baby in the\\narms of his mother.\\nDid they turn away and say, This poor infant\\ncannot be a king; if he were, he would have come\\nto a kingly dwelling, in the midst of the well-born\\nand the noble?\\nNo had not the star guided them With faith", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nand reverence these Wise Men at once fell down\\nand worshipped him and when they had opened\\ntheir treasures, they presented unto him gifts;\\ngold, and frankincense, and myrrh.\\nThat night God told them in a dream not to re-\\nturn to Jerusalem to tell Herod what they had seen,\\nbut to go straight home some other way.\\nCHAPTER II.\\nHEROD SLAYS THE YOUNG CHILDREN THE FLIGHT INTO\\nEGYPT THE PREACHING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST\\nTHE BAPTISM OF CHRIST.\\nHerod was waiting with great impatience for the\\nreturn of the Wise Men to Jerusalem. He was\\ncontinually asking his servants if they had heard or\\nseen anything of them. At last, after waiting some\\ntime, he said, They must have gone home again by\\nnow; they have found the infant King, and they\\nwould not come to tell me about him. In great\\nanger he sent for some Roman soldiers, and said,\\nMake haste, and go to Bethlehem. A young King\\nhas lately been born there, and I will have him\\nkilled at once. I do not know in which house this\\nbaby is; but to make sure of his death, you shall\\ngo into every house in the place, and kill every child\\nunder two years old.\\nDo you think that these soldiers said, Sureiy King\\nHerod will alter his mind when his passion is gone?", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nNo they knew too well that he was old in cruelty,\\nand that it was of no use for them to refuse to obey\\nhis orders.\\nHis soldiers enter Bethlehem. Why are these\\nmen come here? the people ask. They had not long\\nto wait for an answer. The soldiers went into one\\nhouse after another, and snatched every baby from\\nits mother s breast, and threw it down again a life-\\nless corpse. Every little child that was just able\\nto walk about they caught up in their arms, and\\npierced it with their swords. In vain the mothers\\nran with their babies to the tops of their houses in\\nvain the fathers carried their little ones to the\\nvineyards round; every garden was searched, every\\ndoor was opened, and every child under two years\\nold was killed. And from the city of Bethlehem\\nthere arose an exceeding bitter cry.\\nBut I think I hear you ask, Did they find the\\nbaby Jesus, and kill him? No; God would not let\\nthem do that. He knew what the wicked king\\nwould do, so he took care that Jesus should be in a\\nsafe place far away.\\nThe night after the Wise Men had left, God sent\\nan angel to Joseph, and said to him, Eise from your\\nbed, and get ready for a journey to Egypt. Take\\nMary and the baby away directly, for Herod will\\nseek for the infant to kill him. I will tell you when\\nit will be time for you to return home.\\nJoseph did not wait a moment. In the stillness\\nof the night they went through the village gate,\\nand were soon far away in the desert.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 23\\nJoseph and Mary and the baby did not long live\\nin Egypt, for Herod died very soon afterward.\\nThen God sent an angel to Joseph, to tell him that\\nnow he might go back again, because they were\\ndead who sought the young child s life.\\nBut Joseph felt afraid to go and live at Bethlehem\\nagain, so he went back to his old home at Nazareth\\nin Galilee.\\nFor tw T elve years the life of Jesus is wrapped in\\nunbroken silence. We only know that he grew,\\nand waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and\\nthe grace of God was upon him.\\nWhen Jesus was about twelve years old Joseph\\nand Mary took him to Jerusalem to the feast of the\\nPassover. This was a long journey from Nazareth,\\nbut it happened a t a good season of the year, after\\nthe summer s heat and before the winter s rain be-\\ngan to fall. When the feast was over, Joseph and\\nMary set out on their return journey, but Jesus\\ntarried in Jerusalem, and Joseph and Mary were\\nsome distance from Jerusalem before Jesus was\\nmissed. Not finding him among their kinsfolk and\\nfriends, they returned to Jerusalem, and after three\\ndays they found him in the temple among the\\nteachers of the law, both hearing and asking them\\nquestions. And when they saw him they were\\namazed, and his mother said, Son, why hast thou\\nthus dealt with us? Behold, thy father and I have\\nsought thee sorrowing. Jesus answered, How is\\nit that ye sought me? Wist ye not that I must be\\nabout my Father s business? He would have his", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nmother know that implicit obedience to his Heavenly\\nFather was the first rule of his life. Still, although\\nthe Son of God, he yielded to them the true obedi-\\nence of a son, and returned with them to Nazareth,\\nwhere, we doubt not, he labored with Joseph at the\\ncarpenter s bench for his own support and that of\\nthe family.\\nFor the next eighteen years there is silence re-\\nspecting the life of Jesus. We only know that he\\ngrew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God\\nand man.\\nIf you had been living in the land of Palestine,\\nthirty years after the birth of Christ, you would\\nhave heard of a man called John the Baptist.\\nHe lived mostly among the wild places and desert\\nparts of Judea, and by the river side of Jordan.\\nHe wore the coarsest clothing, and lived on the\\nplainest food. Yet he was a greater prophet than\\nall those who had come before him. He was a\\nman sent from God to prepare the Jews for the\\nteaching of Jesus.\\nUp to this time Jesus had been living quietly\\nwith his parents at Nazareth. Now the time had\\ncome for him to begin to teach and to preach to the\\npeople.\\nSome time, however, before Jesus began his work,\\nJohn told the Jews to get ready for the teaching of\\nJesus. Some one is coming who is greater than I\\nam. He already stands among you, though you\\nknow him not. Put away, he cried, all that will\\nhinder his coming to you. He is the Holy One of", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "JOHN THE BAPTIST.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nIsrael, turn awa3 r from your sins. Kepent! the\\nkingdom of God is come nigh unto you.\\nThese sayings of John roused the whole Jewish\\npeople. Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all\\nJudea, and all the region round about Jordan, and\\nwere baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their\\nsins. Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan\\nunto John, to be baptized of him. But John for-\\nbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of\\nthee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answer-\\ning, said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus\\nit becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he\\nsuffered him. And Jesus, when he was baptized,\\nwent up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the\\nheavens were opened unto him, and he saw the\\nSpirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting\\nupon him and, lo, a voice from Heaven, saying,\\nThis is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.\\nThe Pharisees and Sadducees, too, came to John.\\nThey were mostly proud men, who thought a great\\ndeal of themselves.\\nJohn was surprised to see them come, and said,\\nWho has told you to flee from the wrath to come?\\nYou think you are safe because you are the children\\nof faithful Abraham but I tell you that each one\\nof you must give up his sins, his pride, and all un-\\nrighteousness, or he can have no part in Messiah s\\nkingdom; that kingdom is close at hand. Kepent!\\nfor he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.\\nThese plain words of John made the Pharisees\\nangry they thought themselves so much better", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 27\\nthan others, that they had no need to repent. But\\nno one can enter the kingdom of Jesus unless he\\nturns away from his sins.\\nI cannot tell you of all the people who came to\\nJohn but some there were who felt very sorry for\\ntheir sins, and to them he spoke words of love and\\npeace. He told them to look to Jesus as the Lamb\\nof God who taketh away the sins of the world.\\nCHAPTER III.\\nChrist s temptation the calling of the disciples\\njesus begins his public ministry the miracle of\\nthe fishes his first miracle at cana drives\\nthe buyers and sellers out of the temple jesus\\nand nicodemus.\\nBefore Jesus began to teach, he went into the\\nwilderness for forty days. The quiet of the desert\\nwas only broken by the roar of wild beasts, as they\\nwent about at night seeking for their food.\\nBut Jesus was not afraid of them he wanted to\\nbe all by himself, that he might pray to God, his\\nFather, and think over the great work which he was\\nso soon going to begin.\\nGod kept him alive without food for these forty\\ndays. At the end of that time, Jesus was hungry.\\nNow, thought Satan, will be a good time for me to\\ntry to make him do wrong. So he came to Jesus", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nand said, You are very hungry, and there is no food\\nto be had in this desert, but that will not matter.\\nIf you really are the Son of God you can soon turn\\nthese stones that lie around you into bread.\\nBut Jesus said, No; I will trust to God to feed\\nme in any way that he thinks fit. Man does not\\nlive by bread alone.\\nYou see it was like meat and drink to Jesus to do\\nthe will of his Father.\\nThen Satan took Jesus to the temple at Jerusalem,\\nto the top of a very high tower.\\nNow, said Satan, throw yourself down you will\\nnot be hurt, for God your Father will take care of\\nyou. It is said in the Scriptures, The angels shall\\nbear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot\\nagainst a stone.\\nJesus said, No, I will not do as you wish. It is\\nwritten in the Scriptures, Thou shalt not tempt the\\nLord thy God. God only works miracles for wise\\nends, not for the sake of making a wonder. Jesus\\nknew that he could not expect his Father to take\\ncare of him, if he went into danger on purpose.\\nHe could come down from the tower by the steps in\\nthe usual way; he need not throw himself from the\\ntop, in order to reach the ground.\\nSatan now took Jesus to the top of a very high\\nmountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the\\nworld, and the glory of them. All these, said he,\\nI will give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship\\nme. You say you are to be King over all the earth\\nseek my help, and your kingdom shall be set up in", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE TEMPTATION OE JESUS.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nthe world, without any giving up of life and ease\\non your part.\\nBut Jesus said, Get thee hence, Satan, for it is\\nwritten, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and\\nhim only shalt thou serve. My kingdom is not one\\nof show and splendor; it is one in the hearts of men.\\nThen Satan went away. The holy Jesus would\\nnot yield to him when he tried to lead him into sin.\\nAdam and Eve listened to the Evil One, they be-\\nlieved his lies, and disobeyed God but Christ, who\\nis called the Second Adam, was tempted, and did\\nnot fall.\\nSatan comes to us all with just the temptation\\nthat he thinks we shall listen to. To one he says,\\nI would not bear that cross word give a hard word\\nback again and he tempts to revenge.\\nJesus knows how hard it is to do right, when the\\ndevil tempts us to do wrong. One reason why he\\nlet the devil come to him was, that he might know\\nhow hard it was to say No to him.\\nWhen the devil comes to tempt us, Jesus is by\\nus, too, watching to see if we mind his words, and\\nready to help us to do right if we only ask him.\\nGod sent help to Jesus as soon as Satan had gone\\naway. We are told that angels came and brought\\nhim the food he so much needed. How glad they\\nalways were to do the least thing that he wanted.\\nYou will often read in the New Testament of the\\ntwelve disciples of Jesus. Do you know what the\\nword disciple means? It means a learner. These\\ntwelve men were learners of Christ. All who", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST, 31\\nlearned of him were his disciples; but these twelve\\nwere with him always, and learned of him the most.\\nThey are called apostles, too, because Jesus sent\\nthem out into different parts of the country to teach\\nothers. The word apostle means one who is sent.\\nThe disciples were also the friends of Christ. He\\ntold them things about God and about himself that\\nhe did not tell people generally. They loved Jesus\\ndearly, and he loved them, too, and took great pains\\nto correct their mistakes, and to make them good.\\nPeter, James, and John are the three that w T e\\nread most about. John was the disciple that was\\nthe most like his Master in spirit, and he was called\\nthe disciple whom Jesus loved.\\nOne day John the Baptist was teaching his dis-\\nciples or learners, when Jesus passed by. He was\\njust talking to them about Jesus, and as he saw\\nhim looking so calm, so gentle, so meek, he said,\\nBehold the Lamb of God! Two of John s disciples\\nheard his words, and as they looked at Jesus, they\\nfelt the words were true; so they turned at once,\\nand followed him.\\nIt was about four o clock in the afternoon when\\nthey went after Jesus. They did not speak to him,\\nlest they should disturb him. Jesus knew that in\\ntheir hearts they wanted to speak to him, so he\\nturned round and said to them kindly, What is it\\nyou wish for?\\nThey said, Will you tell us where you live? Jesus\\nsaid, Come with me, and I will show you where I\\nlive.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nThen they were very glad; this was just what\\nthey wanted, only they did not like to ask.\\nJesus is the Greatest Teacher that has ever lived\\nin this world, and yet he did not make himself very\\ngrand. No; it was always easy for any one who\\nreally wanted to be his disciple, to see him and to\\ntalk with him.\\nThe names of these two young men were John,\\nwho was afterwards called the beloved disciple and\\nAndrew. They spent all that evening with Jesus,\\nand the more they saw of him the more they loved\\nhim they felt quite sure now that he was the Son\\nof God. They went and told some other young\\nmen what they knew about Jesus. Andrew went\\nfirst of all to his own brother, Simon Peter, and\\nsaid, We have found Christ. He brought him to\\nJesus, and Peter became one of Christ s disciples.\\nThese young men lived by the sea of Galilee, for\\nthey were fishermen.\\nOne day, as Jesus was walking by the seashore,\\nhe saw two ships one of them belonged to Peter.\\nThere were a great many people crowding round\\nJesus to hear him talk, so he said to Peter, Let me\\nget into your empty ship, and push it away from\\nthe land a little way then I shall be able to speak\\nto the people, so that all can hear me.\\nThen Jesus taught the people out of the ship.\\nWhen he had quite finished teaching, he said to\\nPeter, Push your ship out now into deep water, and\\nthrow your nets down into the sea.\\nPeter said, Master, we have been trying all night", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "JESUS WALKING ON THE WATER.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nto catch fish and we have caught nothing, but as\\nthou sayest, Throw in the net, I will do so.\\nPeter threw in the net, and at once it was full\\nof fishes so full that the net broke with their\\nweight.\\nThen Peter called his partners, who were in the\\nother ship, to come and help him. So James and\\nJohn went to the ship and helped to pull up the\\nnet and they filled both their ships with the fishes.\\nWhen Peter saw their number he was astonished\\nand frightened. He felt that Jesus was more than\\nman to work such a miracle. He felt that he was\\na sinful man and not worthy to be so near to him,\\nso he begged Jesus to go away from him.\\nJesus told him not to be afraid because he had\\nseen this wonderful draught of fishes. Have faith\\nin me, and you will see me do yet more wonders,\\nand I will teach you to bring men to know me too.\\nPeter and his partners, James and John, then\\nbrought their ships to land, and left them in care\\nof some hired men, while they followed Jesus wher-\\never he went.\\nThey left all that they had, to go with him:\\nthere was nothing in the world that they cared for\\nso much as to learn of him, and listen to his sayings.\\nI have now told you about John and James, who\\nwere brothers, and Simon Peter and Andrew, who\\nwere brothers.\\nThere was one young man who lived in the same\\nplace with Andrew and Peter his name was Philip.\\nJesus said to him, Follow me.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 35\\nAt once he came he knew that Jesus was the\\nMessiah for whom the Jews had so long been hoping.\\nThen there was Matthew, a tax-gatherer, who\\nhad often heard Jesus speak. One day Jesus said\\nto him, Follow me.\\nHe was very glad to hear Jesus ask him to come\\nand be with him wherever he went so he gave up\\nall at Christ s bidding, and followed him.\\nAt other times Jesus chose the rest of the twelve\\napostles. I have already told you of six, James\\nand John, Andrew and Peter, Philip and Matthew.\\nBeside these there were Thomas, Bartholomew (who\\nwas the same as Nathanael), another James, Simon\\n(called Zelotes), Judas or Jude, who wrote one of\\nthe epistles or letters in the Bible, and Judas Iscariot,\\nwho betrayed Christ.\\nWe next find our Lord at Cana of Galilee where\\na marriage was being celebrated. Mary, the moth-\\ner of Jesus, was there, and he and his disciples\\nwere invited. The bride and bridegroom were poor\\npeople, and in the midst of the feast it turned out\\nthat there was not wine enough. Mary said, in a\\nlow voice, to her Son, They have no wine.\\nNow there were six great jars standing by, and\\nJesus told the servants to fill them with water.\\nSo they filled them up to the brim and then he\\ntold the servants to draw out some of what they\\nhad poured in, and carry it to the chief person there.\\nAs soon as this man had tasted it, he found it\\nwas such good wine that he said to the bridegroom\\nthat most people began their feasts with their best", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 A CHILD S LIFE OF CUEIST.\\nwine, but that here the best had been kept for the\\nlast. This was the first wonderful thing our Lord\\ndid on earth, and it made his disciples know that\\nhe was God, for no one else could have done such a\\nwonder. We call these wonders miracles. Our\\nLord worked many more while he was on earth,\\nand most of them were cures to the blind, or the\\nlame, or the sick. He made them well directly by\\nhis power and love.\\nAfter this Jesus went with his mother and dis-\\nciples to Capernaum, a city on the Sea of Galilee,\\nand there they remained until the time for going\\nup to Jerusalem to keep the feast of the Pass-\\nover.\\nThis was Jesus first visit to Jerusalem since his\\nbaptism. On going into the temple he found men\\nselling oxen, sheep, and doves; also the changers of\\nmoney. And when he had made a scourge of small\\ncords, he drove them out of the temple with it, say-\\ning, Take these things hence make not my Father s\\nhouse an house of merchandise.\\nAnd when the Jews asked him for a sign that he\\nhad a right to do this, he replied, Destroy this\\ntemple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then\\nsaid the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple\\nin building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?\\nJesus spake of the temple of his body, but they did\\nnot understand. Neither did his disciples at that\\ntime, but after the resurrection they remembered\\nhis words.\\nDuring the Passover week Jesus wrought many", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE MARRIAGE FEAST AT CANA,", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nmiracles, and many believed on him because of the\\nmiracles, but their faith was weak.\\nThe Pharisees, as I told you before, were a party\\namong the Jews who were mostly rich and learned\\nmen. Thej r were also very proud, and thought\\nthemselves much better than other people. Their\\noutward conduct was very strict, but in general\\ntheir hearts were full of self-glorying and unkind\\nthoughts of others.\\nThey thought that when Messiah came he would\\nbe a king, just like other kings on earth; and that\\nhe would be sure to give them the chief places in\\nhis kingdom, and make much of them.\\nNow Messiah has come. He is Jesus of Nazareth.\\nHe has gone from the Sea of Galilee, where he\\ncalled some of his disciples; and he is working\\nmiracles, and is teaching in Jerusalem. The Phari-\\nsees look on, but they say, This new teacher is only\\nthe son of a carpenter. He cannot be the Christ.\\nThey turn away, and talk among themselves,\\nand say, This man from Nazareth teaches strange\\nthings. He says God is his Father. And then see\\nhow he cures all manner of diseases. If he were\\nbut rich, we might think he was the King of Israel\\nbut that cannot be. His disciples are only poor\\nfishermen we do not know that any rich men will\\nbelieve in him.\\nBut there was one among them, named Nico-\\ndemus, who, when he reached his home that day,\\nthought over all that he had seen and heard of\\nJesus.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHBIST. 39\\nHe thought to himself, I cannot understand this\\nnew teacher: I should like to talk to him all alone.\\nI will go and see him, but I will wait till it is dark,\\nfor I should not like any to know that I went to\\nlearn of him.\\nSo, when all was still in the streets of Jerusalem,\\nNicodemus quietly left his home, and went to the\\nhouse w T here Jesus was staying.\\nHe knocked at the door, and asked for Jesus.\\nJesus did not say, I am tired with teaching all day;\\nyou must go away, and let me rest now. Besides,\\nif you are ashamed to.be seen talking to me, I will\\nhave nothing to say to you. No; Jesus was always\\ncourteous, and always ready for his great work he\\nat once listened to what Nicodemus had to say.\\nMaster, he said, I know you must be sent from\\nGod to teach men, for no one could do the wonders\\nthat you do if God did not give him the power.\\nI am from God, said Jesus; I have come to set\\nup his kingdom on earth, but not the kind of king-\\ndom that you expect not one that you can see, nor\\none of earthly grandeur. Do not think that because\\nyou are a Jew and a Pharisee, you will have a share\\nin my kingdom. I tell you truly, that unless you\\nare born again you can have no part in it.\\nBorn again! cried Nicodemus: what does that\\nmean?\\nYes, said Jesus; I speak the truth. God s spirit\\nmust change a man s heart before he w 7 ill be able\\nto enter that kingdom. A man naturally loves to\\nplease himself; but, in the new life that God gives,", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nhe will be quite changed, for he will seek to please\\nGod, and care for that which he thinks much of.\\nHe is like another man, after he listens to and obeys\\nGod s Spirit.\\nNicodemus looked very much astonished.\\nJesus said, Do not wonder, Nicodemus, at my\\nsaying, You must be born again. I know that it is\\ndifficult to explain all about a man s soul. But\\nlook at the wind, it blows where it pleases; you\\ncannot tell where it comes from, nor where it goes.\\nYou can see what it does, but you cannot see it.\\nSo you can see what God s Spirit does.\\nAgain Nicodemus asked, How can it be? He did\\nnot like to think that his birth as a Jew went for\\nnothing, nor that if he was to be a sharer in the\\nkingdom of heaven, his heart must bo entirely\\nchanged.\\nJesus said, Are you a teacher in Israel, and do\\nyou not understand that God s kingdom is in the\\nhearts of men? God s way of saving men is not as\\nyou think. You think that the Messiah will come\\nand reign over the Jews with greater splendor than\\nSolomon of old but I tell you that the Messiah will\\nhave to suffer and die, and that it will be through\\nhis death that the whole world, and not the Jews\\nonly, will be saved.\\nYou may not undorstand this yet, but by and by\\nyou will see more plainly God s great love to the\\nworld in sending his Son to die for it.\\nNicodemus then left Jesus. We may be quite\\nsure that he never forgot the conversation of that", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "2*\\np%\\nstt\\nDRIVING THE SELLERS FROM THE TEMPLE.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nnight, and that he thought of it three years after-\\nward, when he saw Jesus lifted up on the cross,\\ndying to give life to the world.\\nI dare say he often came to Jesus to speak with\\nhim, after this first visit, and that he learned to\\nlove him very much. When Jesus was dead, he\\nbrought costly spices to embalm his body; a mix-\\nture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds\\nweight. What a change from the Nicodemus, who\\nat the first came to Jesus by night.\\nChildren do not say, I am sure to go to heaven,\\nbecause I am born in a Christian land, of pious\\nparents. Unless your hearts are made new by\\nGod s Spirit, you cannot enter there. You must be\\nborn again. God waits to give you his Spirit. He\\nsays, Ask and ye shall have. Will you not pray, O\\nLord, for Jesus sake, give me thy Holy Spirit?\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nTHE SAMARITAN WOMAN JESUS HEALS THE NOBLEMAN S\\nSON TEACHES IN THE SYNAGOGUE AT NAZARETH\\nSTILLING THE TEMPEST.\\nThe Pharisees in Jerusalem were very angry with\\nJesus because many people, seeing the wonders that\\nhe did, believed on him. They would not love him\\nthemselves, because he reproved their pride, and\\ndid not teach the things that they bid. Jesus, see-", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 43\\ning their dislike to him, said to his disciples, We\\nwill go back to Galilee, and leave Jerusalem for a\\nlittle time.\\nIt would take three days to go from Jerusalem to\\nGalilee, straight through the country of Samaria\\nand this was the road that Jesus now took.\\nWhen they came near a city of Samaria, called\\nSychar or Shechem, Jesus sat down by the well\\noutside the city.\\nHe was very tired, and hot and thirsty, so he\\nrested there while his disciples went into the city to\\nbuy some food.\\nIt was about twelve o clock at noon when a\\nwoman came to the well to draw some water, and\\nsaw Jesus sitting there alone.\\nHe asked her for some water she gave it, but\\nsaid, How is it that you ask me to give you water,\\nfor you are a Jew, and I am a woman of Samaria?\\nThe proud Jews are not willing to take anything\\nfrom the despised Samaritans.\\nJesus said, You do not know who I am. I have\\ntaken some water from you, but if you knew me,\\nyou would ask me to give you some ever-springing,\\nliving water.\\nSir, said she, how do you get this water? You\\nhave no pitcher with you to draw it up, and the\\nwell is deep.\\nJesus said, I am not speaking of the water at the\\nbottom of this well, for those who drink of this\\nwater will thirst again. But he that drinks of the\\nwater that I will give shall never thirst, for it shall", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nbe in him a well of water springing up into ever-\\nlasting life.\\nThe woman was glad to hear of water ever fresh,\\never springing up, which she could always carry\\nwith her. There would be no need then for weary,\\nhot, dusty walks from the city to the well. Not to\\nthirst again What a delightful thought in that\\nhot country\\nShe did not quite understand yet that it was not\\nreal water that Jesus was speaking about. It was\\nlife in the soul he meant.\\nAs water satisfies the thirst of the body, so will\\nJesus satisfy the thirst of your soul for goodness.\\nI cannot altogether explain how, for you must\\nlearn this of yourself; the well of living water is in\\nyou, Jesus says.\\nGo to him, and ask him to take away sin, which\\nis like death to the soul, and he will give you life\\nand strength to be good.\\nJesus then went on talking to the woman about\\nher past life.\\nShe said, Sir, you must be a prophet to know so\\nmuch about me, for you have never seen me be-\\nfore.\\nJesus told her he was more than a prophet, he\\nwas the Messiah the Christ promised to the world\\nso long ago.\\nThe woman then left her pitcher, and ran back\\nto the city to tell her neighbors that she had found\\nthe promised Christ.\\nWhile she was gone, the disciples, who had by", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "JESUS AND THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nthis time come back from Sychar with the food they\\nhad bought, said, Master, why do you not eat?\\nThey had left Jesus hungry and tired, and now\\nhe did not seem to notice the food they offered him.\\nThey thought that perhaps some one had given him\\nsomething to eat.\\nHe then explained to them that he had been so\\nbusy that he had forgotten his hunger. It was\\nmeat and drink to him to do his heavenly Father s\\nwill.\\nThe woman came back again with man3 r more\\npeople, and they asked Jesus if he would stay in\\ntheir city a little while. Jesus stopped two days,\\nteaching them and answering their questions; and\\nthe people said to the woman, Now we believe, not\\nbecause of what you have said, for we have heard\\nhim ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the\\nChrist, the Saviour of the world.\\nAfter two days, Jesus and his disciples left Sy-\\nchar, and continued their journey to Galilee.\\nThere was great sorrow in the house of a noble-\\nman at Capernaum, for one of his children was\\nvery ill. In vain did the doctors come, for no\\nmedicine would cure him and the parents, in deep\\ngrief, watched the progress of the fever.\\nAt last some one said, Jesus of Nazareth has re-\\nturned from Jerusalem; he is now at Cana, per-\\nhaps he will make the child well.\\nCana was not far from Capernaum, so the noble-\\nman said, I will go at once to Jesus, and see if he\\nwill come here to heal my son.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 47\\nHe soon found Jesus, for his fame was very great;\\nand he begged him very earnestly to go back with\\nhim at once to Capernaum before the child was\\ndead.\\nHe believed that when Jesus saw him, he could\\ncure him, but he thought if the child was dead,\\nthen even lie could do nothing.\\nJesus now showed the nobleman that he had\\nmore power than he thought God had put into the\\nhands of his Son power to do any miracle.\\nJesus could make the child well again, if he stayed\\nat Cana, just as easily as if he went to Capernaum\\nand saw him. He said to the father, Go home again,\\nyour son is cured.\\nThe nobleman believed that Jesus had cured his\\nson, when he spake these words so he turned to go\\nhome again.\\nOn the way back to Capernaum he met some of\\nhis servants, who were bringing him the good news\\nthat his son was better.\\nWhen did he begin to get well? the father asked.\\nThey replied, Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the\\nfever left him.\\nThe father knew that that was the exact time\\nwhen Jesus had told him his son should live. Now\\nhe knew that Jesus could do anything. He and all\\nhis family, when they saw the kindness and power\\nof Jesus in sending health to this sick child knew\\nthat he must be the Son of God.\\nThe fame of Jesus now grew exceedingly. They\\nwho had sick friends brought them to Jesus, and", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nhe healed them all. No disease was too bad, no one\\nhad been ill too long, for Jesus to cure.\\nYou would have thought that all men would have\\nloved him but they did not.\\nAbout this time Jesus went to Nazareth, where\\nhe had spent his childhood and 3 r outh.\\nThe people there had heard of his miracles, and all\\neyes were turned on him one Sabbath day, when he\\nentered the synagogue, or Jewish place of worship.\\nHe took the roll of parchment on which the\\nprophecies were written, which they handed to him\\nto read aloud to them. He unrolled the scroll, and\\nread from Isaiah. It was where the prophet was\\ntelling how in time to come, God would send\\nMessiah to preach good news to the poor, to heal\\nthe broken-hearted, to set the captives free, to give\\nsight to the blind. After Jesus had read these\\nwords, he closed the scroll and sat down. Every\\none looked up in astonishment and in silence.\\nJesus then said, I am the Messiah of whom the\\nprophet speaks. I am come for the very purpose\\nto set men free from the power of Satan and from\\nhabits of sin. I am come to bring light to the\\nminds of men, by teaching them about God. I am\\ncome to speak words of pardon and comfort to\\nthose who are sorry for their sin.\\nAt first, all who heard Jesus speak wondered very\\nmuch that a man whom they had known from a\\nlittle child should say that he came to do these great\\nthings. They said, Is he not the son of Joseph? we\\ncannot believe him.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "JESUS IN THE SYNAGOGUE.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nOne evening Jesus said that he should like to\\ncross over to the other side of the lake. Then he\\nand his disciples, and a few more men, went into a\\nship. All at once a strong wind began to blow, and\\nthe water became very rough. Now the waves get\\nstronger and stronger, and rise higher and higher,\\ntill they dash over the little ship. The wind roars,\\nand a black tempest darkens the sky.\\nThough the men on board were used to the sea,\\nthey could not manage the vessel in this terrible\\nstorm. The waves begin to fill the ship with water,\\nand in great alarm the disciples went to Jesus.\\nWhere was he all this time? He was fast asleep.\\nHe was very tired, for he had been teaching a great\\nmany people all day long and as soon as he got\\ninto the ship he went to the farther end of it, and\\nlaid his head upon a pillow, and the movement of\\nthe vessel soon rocked him to sleep.\\nThe noise of the wind and the waves had not\\nawaked him, but he awoke at once when he heard\\nthe voice of his disciples asking his help.\\nMaster, Master, they cried, we perish! Do you\\nnot care for us? O Lord, save us!\\nHe arose at once, and said to the wind, Be still;\\nand then he turned to the waves, and said, Be still.\\nAnd the noisy wind heard that calm voice above\\nall its roar, and was hushed to stillness; and the\\nraging waves listened to the commands of their\\nLord and Master, and became smooth and quiet.\\nThe angry storm, at one word from Jesus,\\nchanged to a great calm.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF C Hit 1ST. 51\\nThe men in the ship feared exceedingly. Who\\ncould he be who could make even ihe wind and the\\nsea obey his voice? They might well say, that\\nGod alone could do that. Jesus is God as well\\nas man, and that is why all things in nature owned\\nhis power.\\nWhen Jesus had quieted the fears of his disciples,\\nhe gently reproved them for their want of faith in\\nhim.\\nWhy were you afraid, ye of little faith? he\\nsaid. You should have believed that I would have\\ntaken care of you. I knew that you were tossed\\nabout, though I was asleep.\\nIt is not only raging seas that Jesus calms; he\\ncan still the angry passions of men, too.\\nHave you never felt something like a storm\\nwithin 3 7 ou, w T hen conscience begged you not to\\nyield to the power of evil habits when a sudden\\nwish to do wrong was met by the thought, How\\ncan I thus sin? In that hour of strife between\\ngood and evil, turn to Jesus and ask his help. He\\nwill send a calm, for the evil will flee at his pres-\\nence, and leave you strong for good.\\nYou will often read in the New Testament about\\nJesus curing people who were possessed with devils.\\nWe can hardly tell you what this sad disease w 7 as\\nthat Jesus cured. It seemed to be a kind of mad-\\nness, in which people lost their senses, and fancied\\nthat an evil spirit lived within them, making them\\ndo dreadful things.\\nA poor man who was thus afflicted lived at the", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 A CHILD S LIFE OF CUBIST.\\nlittle town at which Jesus landed after he had\\nstilled the tempest. This poor man lived among\\nthe dreary gravestones and old tombs of the wilder-\\nness. He was very fierce, and men were afraid to\\npass by the place where he was. It was no use to\\nchain him, for he broke his chains to pieces, and\\ngot loose again. There he was all day and all\\nnight, in lonely places, crying out and cutting him-\\nself with stones.\\nHearing the noise of the landing of the vessel, he\\nturned and saw Jesus and his disciples come out of\\nthe ship. He ran to meet Jesus, and fell down at\\nhis feet, and cried very loud.\\nJesus told the evil spirits to come out of the man.\\nThe evil spirits said, What have we to do with\\nthee, Jesus, thou Son of God? Art thou come to\\npunish us before the judgment-day?\\nJesus now spoke to the man, and said, What is\\nyour name?\\nThe devils would not let the man speak; they an-\\nswered their name was Legion, which means many.\\nThey said to Jesus, Do not make us leave the man,\\nbut if you do cast us out, let us go into the swine\\nthat are feeding on the hills.\\nJesus now spoke to the evil spirits, and told them\\nthey might go.\\nThen the devils went out of the man and entered\\ninto the swine, and the herd ran down the moun-\\ntain-side into the sea, and were drowned.\\nThe man was now quite cured, and could listen\\nto Jesus. He was in his right mind. He felt so", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 53\\nloving and grateful to Jesus for making him well,\\nthat he wished to follow him everywhere.\\nJesus said, No, go to your home, and tell all your\\nfriends what great things God hath done for you.\\nThe people who saw this wonderful cure were\\nafraid of Jesus, and begged him to go away. Did\\nthey suppose the gentle Jesus ever harmed any one?\\nHis power was always used for mercy; it was only\\nused against disease, and sin, and evil.\\nAt another time a poor man was brought to Jesus,\\nwho was troubled with an evil spirit that made him\\ndeaf and dumb.\\nJesus told the devil to leave the man, and he did so.\\nWhen he was gone, the poor man could both hear\\nand speak. All who saw the cure, wondered, and\\nsaid, This Jesus must be the Son of God.\\nThe Pharisees did not like to hear Jesus praised,\\nfor they hated him, and were wicked enough to say\\nthat his great power was given to him by Satan. It\\nis by the help of the Evil One that he casts out devils.\\nJesus told them that Satan would not cast out\\nSatan, that evil would not fight against evil. Evil\\ncould not do good, and good could come only from\\nGod.\\nIf, he said, it is thus God s power that cures\\nthese poor people, then is God very near to you, and\\nI warn you to believe my teachings. But the\\nPharisees only hated Jesus the more, because they\\nknew he spoke the truth.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nCHAPTER V.\\nTHE EAISING OF JAIRUS DAUGHTER THE HEALING OF\\nTHE WOMAN WHO TOUCHED THE HEM OF JESUS GAR-\\nMENT THE WIDOW S SON OTHER MIRACLES OF HEALING\\nA WOMAN WASHES JESUS* FEET WITH HER TEARS,\\nJesus crossed the lake again and came to Caper-\\nnaum. A large crowd of people were waiting for\\nhim. They asked him a great many questions.\\nThe Pharisees were always trying to find fault\\nwith what Jesus did. They said to his disciples,\\nHow is it that your Master goes to the houses of\\nwicked people, and eats and drinks with them? He\\nkeeps bad company.\\nJesus heard them speaking to his disciples, so he\\nturned to them and said, You do not send a doctor\\nto a man who is quite well, but you send him to a\\nsick man. So I go to those whose souls are sick,\\nthat I may cure them; I go to sinners, to make\\nthem good. You proud Pharisees say that you are\\nrighteous, so you feel no need of me; if you- felt\\nyour need of a Saviour, I would come to you too.\\nWhile Jesus was busy talking to different people,\\na man named Jairus came to him, and kneeled at\\nhis feet, and begged him very earnestly to come to\\nhis house directly.\\nHe said 3 I have onlj r one little daughter; she is\\ntwelve years old, and she is dying. Come, I pray\\nyou, at once, and put your hand on her, and make\\nher well again.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 55\\nJesus then rose up to go with the sorrowing\\nfather. His disciples went with him, and a great\\ncrowd of people besides.\\nAfter they had walked on a short distance, Jesus\\nturned round and said, Who touched my clothes?\\nThose nearest to Jesus all said that they had not\\ntouched him.\\nThen Peter said, Master, how is it you ask who\\ntouched 3 r ou? The crowd is so great, that it is no\\nwonder if somo one has pressed against you.\\nYes, said Jesus; but somebody has touched my\\nclothes on purpose to be healed by touching them.\\nWho is it?\\nThen there came from among the crowd a poor\\nwoman, and she fell down at the feet of Jesus, and\\nsaid, It was I, Lord.\\nShe said, I have been very ill for twelve years,\\nand I have gone from one doctor to another to be\\ncured, but all in vain. I have suffered a great deal\\nof pain, and I get worse rather than better, and I\\nhave spent all my money. I heard of you, Lord,\\nand how you cured all manner of diseases; so I\\nthought if I could but touch the hem of your gar-\\nment I should be made w r ell at once. It has been,\\ntoo, exactly as I hoped, for the moment I touched\\nyou I felt quite well.\\nThe poor woman trembled very much all the\\nwhile she was speaking to Jesus, for she was afraid\\nthat he would think that she had been too bold.\\nBut Jesus spoke to her very kindly, and told her\\nthat he was very much pleased with her faith in", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nhim. Daughter, he said, be of good comfort, thy\\nfaith hath made thee whole: go home in peace.\\nJust then some one came with a message from\\nthe house of Jairus, and said to him, Your daughter\\nis dead, do not trouble the Master any further, for\\nnothing can be done for her now.\\nJesus told the poor father not to be cast down at\\nthe sad news: Be not afraid, only believe in my\\npower, and she shall be made well again.\\nAt the door of the house the mother meets them,\\nand a crowd of curious persons seek to enter the\\nhouse with Jesus and his disciples. But Jesus will\\nnot let any one come in but Peter, James, and John.\\nThey then, with the father and mother of the little\\ngirl, go into the room where she lies dead. Already\\na great many people were in the room who were\\npaid, as w T as then the custom, to play sad music,\\nand sing sad songs, and make a great crying over\\nthe dead body.\\nJesus said to them, Do not weep; the child is not\\ndead, she is only sleeping.\\nJesus meant that her death would be as a sleep\\nto her, for he could raise her out of it.\\nThese people did not wait to see what Jesus\\nw r ould do, but laughed at him rudely, and said, She\\nis dead; you cannot make her alive now.\\nJesus put them all out of the room, for they were\\nnot worthy to see the great work he was going tc\\nperform.\\nWhen the noisy mourners were gone, and he was\\nalone with the father and mother, and Peter, James,", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "7 T\\nRAISING OF THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nand John, he took the hand of the little girl. Then\\nhe said unto her, Maiden, I say to thee, arise!\\nAnd the dead body heard the voice of him who is\\nthe Life of the World, and she arose and walked\\nabout the room.\\nJesus said to her parents, Give her something to\\neat; you see she is really alive and well.\\nThe parents were greatly pleased to have their\\nlittle girl well again and they, and all who heard\\nabout it, were very much surprised indeed at this\\nwonderful miracle.\\nI dare say that you have often met a funeral\\nwhen you have been out walking. Is it not a sad\\nsight to see the mourners following to the grave the\\nbody of a dear friend?\\nOnce, when Jesus was walking along the road,\\nhe saw a funeral coming out at the gates of the\\nlittle town of Nain.\\nA great many people were walking after Jesus, for\\nthey liked to hear him talk, and they also liked to see\\nthe wonderful things which he was constantly doing.\\nBy and by, they came close up to the funeral\\nprocession it was a very long one. All the people\\nwho followed the dead body seemed to be grieving\\nvery much indeed. It was a young man that they\\nwere carrying to the grave. He was lying on a\\nbier, which is something like a coffin without a lid.\\nOne poor woman was crying very much, for she\\nwas the mother of that young man, and he was her\\nonly son she was a widow too, and now she was\\nvery sad and lonely.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 59\\nEverybody felt very sorry for her, but no one had\\nany power to take away her trouble. When Jesus\\nsaw her, he felt very sorry too, and he had power\\nto help her, and make her glad again. He said to\\nher very gently, Weep not.\\nHe then went to the bier, and touched it and\\nthose who were carrying it stood still, and all the\\ncrowd also stood still.\\nXo one spoke, but every one thought, What will\\nthe Master do?\\nHis disciples knew he could raise the dead, as well\\nas cure the sick; but perhaps many thought, It is\\nof no use to stop the funeral, for he cannot make\\nthe dead hear his voice they are past cure.\\nThen Jesus spoke to the dead body, Young man,\\nI say unto thee, arise\\nWill he hear? Oh, yes! death obeys the voice of\\nits Lord, and at once, he that w r as dead sat up and\\nbegan to speak.\\nThen Jesus, with great grace and kindness, gave\\nhim to his mother, and said, Here is your son alive\\nagain.\\nSo this funeral procession was changed into a joy-\\nful company, and every one wondered at the great\\nwork that Jesus had just done.\\nHe has raised a dead man to life again, people\\nsaid, and the news spread in all the country round.\\nMany people praised God for sending such a great\\nprophet among them. Surely, they said 5 God hath\\nvisited his people.\\nThe fame of the w r onderful works of Jesus spread", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "60 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\neverywhere, and many people wanted to see the\\nman about whom every one was talking.\\nOne day a rich, proud Pharisee, named Simon,\\nasked Jesus to come and dine with him. I am\\nafraid he only asked him to come because he wanted\\nto hear him talk, and not because he loved him.\\nHowever, Jesus told Simon that he would come.\\nWhen Jesus went, Simon treated him with great\\nneglect he did not honor Jesus as his guest. He\\nought to have brought him some water to wash his\\nfeet, as this was the first thing that was done on\\ncoming into a house. As people in those countries\\nonly wore sandals, and not shoes, their feet would\\nbe very dusty after walking, and it was necessary\\nto their comfort that they should often wash their\\nfeet. Then he should have given him some sweet\\nointment, and also a kiss of welcome, which means\\nnearly the same thing as our shake of the hands.\\nBut Simon paid none of these attentions to Jesus.\\nPerhaps he thought that he was doing the Lord a\\ngreat favor by asking him to come to his house.\\nWhen Jesus sat down to dinner, a woman came\\ninto the room.\\nShe had heard that Jesus was in this rich man s\\nhouse, and she came to the place where he was\\nreclining, and stood at his feet.\\nShe began to cry, for she had been very wrong\\nand wicked, and she longed to hear Jesus pardon\\nher sins. She knew he would forgive her if she\\ncould but ask him, as she was very sorry, and\\nwished to forsake her sins. She loved him dearly,", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "ft /*J 7 \u00e2\u0096\u00a07\\nMARY ANOINTING THE FEET OF JESUS.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nand she felt sure that he would not send her away\\nunforgiven.\\nHer tears fell fast like a shower of rain on the\\nfeet of Jesus, and so she washed them.\\nShe then wiped them dry with her long hair, and\\nkissed his feet many times.\\nShe then opened a box that she had brought with\\nher. It was a box of alabaster, a kind of pure\\nwhite marble, and in it was some sweet, precious\\nointment. This she rubbed on the feet of Jesus.\\nWhile she was doing this Simon looked on, and\\nhe was very much surprised that Jesus would even\\nlet the woman touch him.\\nHe said to himself, for he did not dare say it out\\nloud, This Jesus is no prophet. If he were, he\\nwould know how wicked this woman has been, and\\nhe would have nothing to do with her; he would\\nsend her quite away.\\nBut Jesus did know, and he knew too what was\\npassing in Simon s thoughts. He turned to him,\\nand said, Simon, I have something to say to\\nyou.\\nSimon said, Master, what is it?\\nThere was once a person to whom two men owed\\nsome money. One man only owed a little, the\\nother owed a great deal. They had neither of them\\nany money at all with which to pay their debts.\\nThen the man to whom they owed the money for-\\ngave them both, and said they need not pay any-\\nthing, Tell me now which of these two men will\\nlove him the most?", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 63\\nSimon said, I suppose that he who owed the most,\\nand who had most forgiven, will love the most.\\nYes, said Jesus, that is quite right. He then\\nturned to the woman, and said to Simon, Do you\\nsee this woman?\\nYes, said Simon.\\nWhen I came to your house, you gave me no\\nwater to wash my feet but she has washed my feet\\nwith her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her\\nhead. You gave me no kiss of welcome, but she\\nhas kissed my feet ever since she has been here.\\nYou poured no sweet oil upon my head, but she has\\nrubbed my feet with precious ointment. She has\\ndone a great many sinful things, but I have for-\\ngiven her, and she loves me very much. You think\\nthat you have not much to be forgiven, so you only\\nlove me a very little.\\nJesus then turned to the woman, and said to her\\nin the kindest tones, Your many sins are all for-\\ngiven you. You believed I would forgive you, and\\nI have done so; go to your home in peace.\\nThe poor woman went away comforted at heart\\nby these kind words of Jesus, but the people who\\nwere sitting at table with Jesus were very angry\\nindeed.\\nThey would not believe that he could forgive sins,\\nand they thought that he was taking on himself the\\npower of God when he forgave the woman.\\nWho are you, that you should forgive sin? they\\nsaid to Jesus.\\nThe poor sinful woman was wiser than the proud,", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nself-righteous Pharisee. She knew that Jesus could\\npardon sin, for she felt he had done so by the peace\\nthat he had given her.\\nJesus will pardon your sins if you confess them\\nto him and desire to forsake them. Of course he\\nwill not forgive you, if you think yourself very\\ngood, as the Pharisee did. He does not love the\\nproud, but he does love those who are sorry for\\ntheir sin, and he will give them sweet comforting\\nwords of pardon.\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nTHE PARABLES THE PRODIGAL SON THE LOST SHEEP\\nAND THE LOST MONEY.\\nJesus often taught people by parables. Do you\\nknow what a parable is? It is a kind of story, in\\nwhich something is explained by showing what it\\nis like.\\nWe will tell you one of Christ s parables so you\\ncan see what is meant.\\nJesus wanted people to know what love God felt\\nfor all those who were sorry for sin, and he showed\\nthem what that love was like, by the love of an\\nearthly father for his naughty but repentant son.\\nHe said, There was a man once who had two sons.\\nOne day, the younger son said to his father, Father,\\ngive me my share of your money and goods. Then", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "ggpL 1$%,. i j\\nTHE PRODIGAL SON.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nthe father divided all that he had between his two\\nsons.\\nNot many days after this, the younger son put\\nall his things together, and took them and his\\nmoney with him, and went on a long journey into\\na country a great way off. He wished to get as\\nfar from his good father as he possibly could, for he\\nknew he would not like to see how badly he went on.\\nHe kept rude, bad company, and ate and drank\\na great deal, and not only spent his money, but\\nwasted it in a great many wicked ways.\\nAt last his money and his goods were quite gone,\\nand there was a great famine, or scarcity of food,\\nin all the country. He began to want for bread.\\nHis old companions would not help him. Now\\nthat he had no money to spend, they left him all\\nalone.\\nHe could not starve. What should he do?\\nHe went to a man, and asked him to give him\\nsome work, so that he might earn something to eat.\\nThe man said, I have no work to give you unless\\nyou like to go into the fields to feed the herds of\\nswine.\\nThere was nothing that a Jew hated worse than\\nto keep pigs. Only the very lowest and the very\\npoorest would do such a thing.\\nBut this young man, though he had once been\\nrich, and had fared sumptuously, was glad to do it,\\nand even to eat of the coarse food that he gave to\\nthe pigs. This was a kind of pulse or pea.\\nNo one gave him anything else to eat.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 67\\nSad, starving, and almost naked, he began to\\nthink of his disgrace, misery, and degradation.\\nHe thought of his old home, of his kind father,\\nof his folly in leaving him, and wanting to do as\\nhe liked. Then he thought of all the unhappiness\\nhis wicked ways had brought him to, how his money\\nwas gone, and he had nothing left, and how not\\none of his sinful companions would help him now\\nthat he was in trouble.\\nThen he thought of the servants in his father s\\nhouse; even they were better off than he was.\\nThey had food enough and to spare, while he was.\\ndying of hunger.\\nThen he said, Why should I stop here? I will go\\nback to my father, and say, Father, I have sinned\\nagainst God, and against you. I know I am not\\nworthy to be called your son, but let me come to\\nyour house and be a servant.\\nSo he began to go back to his father, and at last\\nhe came within sight of his father s house, but as\\nyet he was a great way off.\\nThe father happened to be looking along the road\\nby which his son had gone away when he left his\\nhome. I dare say he was wondering what had be-\\ncome of him, he had not heard of him for so long.\\nPerhaps ho was wishing he could hear something\\nabout him, for he did not know whether he was\\nalive or dead. At last he sees a poor ragged man\\nwalking in the distance: he comes nearer and\\nnearer, he seems coming to the house. The poor\\nragged man is just about as tall as his youngest", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nson, he is something like him too. Can it be his\\nson come back, poor and wretched? Yes, it is; he\\nknows him now, notwithstanding his rags and his\\nhalf-starved look. Oh, how glad he feels he runs\\nat once to meet him. His heart is full of pity for\\nhis poor son. As soon .as he comes up to him, and\\nbefore the son can say one word, he throws his arms\\naround his neck and kisses him.\\nFather, says the son, in a voice so full of grief\\nthat the father can only just hear him speak:\\nFather, I have sinned against God in heaven, and\\nagainst you. I do not deserve to be called your son.\\nThe father tells his servants to bring him not\\nmerely clothes, but the best robe; and to put a ring\\non his hand, as a mark of honor, and shoes on his\\nfeet.\\nHe said, Get ready the best food too; kill the\\nfatted calf, for we will have a feast and be merry.\\nI thought my son was dead, but he is here alive; I\\nthought he was lost, but now he is found.\\nNow his elder son drew nigh, and heard music\\nand dancing. And he was angry, and would not\\ngo in, and said to his father, Lo, these many years\\nhave I served thee, and have not transgressed and\\nyet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make\\nmerry with my friends. And the father said, Son,\\nthou art ever with me. It was meet that we should\\nmake merry, and be glad for this thy brother was\\ndead, and is alive again; was lost, and is found.\\nThis parable is one of the most affecting, instruc-\\ntive, and encouraging in the New Testament; and", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 69\\nthe pathos and divine simplicity of the narrative\\nare unsurpassed in the sacred writings. Let us,\\nrealizing its meaning, take the good intended in\\nit, and return to our Heavenly Father, who is the\\nmerciful receiver of all truty penitent sinners. The\\nScribes and Pharisees had, as usual, been murmur-\\ning at the condescending goodness of the great\\nShepherd to the wandering sheep of the Jewish fold,\\nsaying, This man receiveth sinners.\\nWhen you begin to think of the kind and good\\nGod whose commands you have broken, and feel\\nsorry that you have grieved him by your naughty\\nways, then you are like the young man when he\\nbegan to think of his father and his sins.\\nWhen you think, I will go to God, and tell him\\nI have sinned, and am most unworthy of his love,\\nthen you are like the young man when he said that\\nhe would go back to his father.\\nBut will God hear me when I go to him? Will\\nhe love me again, notwithstanding all my sins?\\nWill he indeed forgive me? That was the truth\\nthat Jesus wanted to teach. Yes; did not the\\nearthly father take back his son in the most loving\\nway to his home and heart?\\nSo God rejoices to see anj 7 sinner returning to\\nhim: he waits to be gracious. God s heart is kind-\\ner and more tender than any earthly father s heart.\\nJesus had lived in Heaven before he came to\\nearth, and he knew how forgivingly the Heavenly\\nFather receives the repentant sinner. He came to\\nshow us the Father.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRLST.\\nGod can show us his fatherly love, because Jesus\\ndied to bring us near to God, and because he bore\\nthe chastisement which our sins had deserved.\\nBut what about the jealous elder brother? He\\nwas like the Pharisees who outwardly obeyed God,\\nbut had no love in their hearts, and had no pity for\\nthose who did wrong, even when they were sorry\\nfor it.\\nIn the parable of the repenting son, Jesus showed\\nhow God feels to those who are sorry for their sins.\\nIn the parables of the lost sheep and of the lost\\nmoney, he shows how the angels feel when men\\nturn away from sin and pray to God.\\nJesus said, There was once a shepherd who had a\\nhundred sheep. He counted them over one day,\\nand there were but ninety-nine; one was missing.\\nHe left the ninety-nine sheep and went looking over\\nthe mountains to try to find the lost one. At last,\\nto his great joy, he found it. He laid it across his\\nshoulders, and brought it back to the flock. He\\nthen called all his friends together, and said to them,\\nBe glad with me, for I have found my lost sheep.\\nIt seemed dearer to him, now that he had found\\nit, than the ninety-nine sheep which had never\\nstrayed away.\\nThere was a woman who had ten pieces of silver\\nmoney. She lost one of the ten pieces. She swept\\nher room all over to try to find it. Then she lit a\\ncandle, so that she might search into every corner.\\nAt last she found it, and that one piece seemed more\\nprecious to her than all the other nine.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 71\\nShe called her friends together and said, Rejoice\\nwith me, for I have found my lost money.\\nAs the shepherd rejoiced over his lost sheep when\\nhe found it, as the woman rejoiced over her lost\\nmoney when she found it, so the angels rejoice over\\nthe return of even one lost soul to God.\\nWhy are the angels so glad?\\nBecause they know what a soul is worth. All\\nthe riches of the whole world are of no value com-\\npared with the soul of one little child.\\nYet people often think but little of their souls.\\nNot so the angels.\\nThey know so well what a dreadful thing it is to\\nbe lost. They know the awful state of those an-\\ngels whom God turned out of Heaven because they\\nsinned, and who now live in the dwelling-place of\\nlost spirits. They grieve to think that anybody on\\nearth should go there. They know that all those\\nwho do not love God cannot live with him in heaven\\nso they all rejoice when any one turns away from\\nsinful ways, and prays to God.\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nTHE LORD S PRAYER THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.\\nJesus often liked to be alone, that he might pray\\nto his Father.\\nHe would go sometimes to the quiet mountain\\ntop, and spend the whole night in talking to and\\nthinking of God.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nOne day when he had finished praying, his dis-\\nciples came to him and said\\nLord, will j r ou teach us to pray?\\nJesus then taught them a short prayer. It was\\nthe prayer which we call The Lord s Prayer. I\\ndare say you all know it\\nOur Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be\\nthy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done\\nin earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our\\ndaily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we\\nforgive them that trespass against us. And lead\\nus not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:\\nfor thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the\\nglory, for ever and ever. Amen.\\nThis is not an easy prayer for little children, but\\neven they may understand some of its meaning.\\nIt begins, Our Father which art in Heaven.\\nGod is our Father because he made us; but he\\nis more our Father because Jesus died to make us\\nhis children. It is through Jesus that we dare to\\ncall God Father. He is our Father in Heaven, so\\nwe must trust him with reverence. Heaven seems\\nnear to us when we pray.\\nHallowed be thy name, means, Let God s\\nname be honored.\\nThy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth\\nas it is done in Heaven. How is God s will done\\nin Heaven? It is done always, it is done cheerfully,\\nit is done perfectly. How is God s will done on\\nearth? Alas! only a few do it at all, and even\\nthose who do it best, do it very imperfectly. But", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "mfi mm\\nTHE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nmost men only do their own will, or Satan s will,\\nso we may well pray, Thy will be done.\\nGive us day by day our daily bread. It is God\\nwho gives us our daily food, and we may ask him\\nfor that which is necessary for us.\\nForgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them\\nthat trespass against us. What are trespasses?\\nThey are sins. I have heard one little child say\\nto another who has done him a wrong, I don t love\\nyou, and I won t forgive you. Have you ever said\\nso? I suppose you would like God to forgive you\\nyour sins? You have sinned more against God\\nthan ever a brother could sin against you. What\\nif God should turn away his face from you how\\nunhappy it would make you feel!\\nJesus said, If you will not forgive those who sin\\nagainst you, your Heavenly Father cannot forgive\\nyou your sins against him.\\nBefore you pray to be forgiven, in your heart\\nforgive all those who have done wrong to you then\\nwill your Heavenly Father also forgive you.\\nLead us not into temptation, but deliver us from\\nevil. This is a prayer to God to keep us from\\nlistening to Satan, who is often watching us and\\ntrying to tempt us to do evil. We are so weak that\\nwe ask God to help us and save us.\\nFor thine is the kingdom, the power, and the\\nglory, for ever and ever. Amen. So the prayer\\nends with giving God all honor as the High and\\nLofty One, who ever lives as the King over all.\\nWhen Jesus had finished this prayer, he said to", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 75\\nhis disciples, Yon may ask God for anything you\\nwant, it shall be given you.\\nThen he said, Suppose a boy should come to his\\nfather, and say, Father I am hungry, will you give\\nme some bread Do you think the father would give\\nhim a stone instead? No; no father would give\\nhis child what he knows he cannot eat.\\nDo you think then that God will give us what is\\nof no use to us, instead of something that we have\\nasked him for, and that we much want? Oh, no.\\nThen Jesus said, Suppose a child should say,\\nFather, will you give me some fish? would he give\\nhim a serpent? Or if he said, Father will you give\\nme an egg? would he give him a scorpion?\\nNo, you know that no father would give poison-\\nous, hurtful things to a dear child, when he asked\\nhim for food.\\nDear children, your father knows how to give\\nyou good things, but he would not give you things\\nthat were not good for you.\\nYour father knows how to give you good things,\\nbut God only can give you the best things.\\nYour father can give you a house to live in, and\\nclothes, and food, and toys, and money, perhaps,\\nbut God can give you his Holy Spirit. Why is this\\nthe best of ail? Because the Holy Spirit will teach\\nyou to be good, and if you are good you will be\\nhappy. It is better to be good than to have all the\\nfine things in the world if you are good you will\\nbe like God, and live one day with him forever,\\nand that will be best of all.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nOne summer morning, Jesus sat down upon a\\nmountain plain, and called his disciples around him.\\nThere were a great many people there besides, and\\nthey all listened to the most wonderful sermon ever\\npreached.\\nThough the sermon was long, the people who\\nheard it were not tired, and they went away saying,\\nWhat wonderful teaching is this of Jesus! He\\nspeaks as if he knew more than any other teacher\\nthat we ever heard. Jesus began by telling them\\nwho the happy people were.\\nHe did not say, Blessed are the great, the rich,\\nthe famous. No he taught them, saying, Blessed\\nare those who feel that they are poor, and helpless,\\nand wretched.\\nBlessed are those who grieve over their sins, and\\nwish they were better and holier than they are.\\nBlessed are the meek and gentle-spirited.\\nBlessed are those who long to be quite good, as a\\nhungry and thirsty man longs for food and drink.\\nBlessed are the merciful and kind-hearted.\\nBlessed are those who wish to be good in their\\nhearts, to feel right as well as to do right.\\nBlessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be\\ncalled the children of God.\\nJesus said, You, my disciples, must be like a\\nlight in a dark place, you must be so good, that\\nmen may learn of you to love God and goodness.\\nYour goodness must not be like that of the Phari-\\nsees, for they do right that men may praise them.\\nThey are like a cup that is washed clean outside,", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 77\\nbut is unwashed and dirty inside. They do not care\\nabout having sinful thoughts and feelings, as men\\ncannot see into their hearts. You must do right,\\nnot that men may say, How good you are, but that\\nGod, your Heavenly Father, may be praised by\\nyour goodness.\\nThen Jesus said, You must be kind and forgiving\\nto one another. I do not mean only to those who\\nare kind and loving to you, but even to those who\\nare unkind, and are your enemies. You must be\\nlike your Father in Heaven, for he is kind and good\\neven to the unthankful and the unworthy.\\nYou must not be always looking out for the faults\\nof others. Look into your own hearts, for your\\nown faults. You will see how many you have, and\\nhow great they are, so you will learn to think\\nkindly of other people s faults.\\nIf you wish to go to Heaven you will meet with\\nmany difficulties in the way. It is easy to walk in\\nthe way that leads to hell. It is like a broad and\\nsmooth road, pleasant to travel on. If you walk in\\nthis road you can be as unkind, as naughty, as\\nselfish as you like. But if you walk in the narrow\\nway you will often find it rough so rough that only\\na few will venture in it. In a word, you must give\\nup seeking to please yourselves, and try to please\\nGod and to do his will rather than your own. You\\nmust be patient, and good, and loving. You must\\nfeel right and think right as well as do right.\\nBut though the narrrow way is hard, it has joys\\nwhich are never known in the broad and easy", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "78 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nway. There is pleasure in overcoming difficulties,\\nthere is peace in doing right, there is joy in God s\\nsmile, and his help is always ready for those who\\nask it.\\nJesus said, It is of no use for you to say that you\\nbelong to me, unless you really do what I tell you.\\nThe man who hears what I say, and who does what\\nI tell him, is like a man who built his house upon\\na rock. One day a heavy storm of rain came down\\nlike a flood. The wind blew loud and strong, and\\nthe wind and rain together beat upon that house,\\nbut it did not fall. Why? Because its foundation\\nwas a strong rock.\\nAnother man built his house upon the sand by\\nthe sea-shore. One day the sky became very dark,\\nand the large black clouds burst over his house in\\ntorrents of rain. The wind roared loud, and beat\\nhard upon the house, and it fell, and great was\\nthe fall of it. Why? Because its foundation was\\nweak, shifting sand.\\nThe foundation, or that on which the house is\\nbuilt, must be firm and strong, or the house will\\nnot stand. It does not matter how strongly the\\nhouse is built, if the foundation on which it rests is\\nweak. The house then will be sure to fall.\\nJesus said that those who heard what he said and\\ndid not obey him, were like the foolish man who\\nbuilt upon the sand.\\nChildren, if you do right out of love to Christ,\\nyou will not do right to be seen by others, nor will\\nyou yield to others when they tempt you to do", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 79\\nwrong, your reason for doing right is built upon\\nthe rock Christ.\\nBut if you do right to be praised by men, or if\\nyou know what you ought to do but do it not, then\\nyou are like a foolish man your goodness is with-\\nout a foundation.\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nTHE HEALIXG OF THE MAN WITH THE PALSY THE\\nSABBATH-DAY CUKES,\\nYou may be sure that the Pharisees did not like\\nsuch sermons as those that Jesus preached. They\\ndid not like that he should see through their outside\\ncovering of goodness, into the wicked selfishness of\\ntheir hearts.\\nThey showed their dislike by acting as spies upon\\nall he did and said, and were always trying to find\\nfault with him. They said that he made himself\\nequal w 7 ith God, and pretended to have more power\\nthan he really had.\\nJesus had been away from his house in Caper-\\nnaum for a few days, into the towns and villages\\nnear, to preach to the people there 4 When he re-\\nturned home again, a great many people came to\\nhis house. Some were sick people who came to be\\nmade well; some were people in trouble who came\\nto be comforted some came to be taught, some\\ncame out of curiosity, and some came to find fault.\\nAltogether there were a great many people there,\\nso that the doorway was quite crowded.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nJesus was interrupted in his teaching by a noise\\noutside the door. There seemed to be a great deal\\nof pushing and loud talking. What do you think\\nit was all about?\\nA poor man who was ill with palsy, so that he could\\nnot use any of his limbs, or turn himself round in\\nbed, or help himself in any way, wanted his friends\\nto take him to Jesus. Beside all his pains of body,\\nhe was very unhappy because of his sins, so he\\nwanted to be made well in body and mind too.\\nHis friends, seeing his great distress, said that\\nfour of them would carry him on his bed to Jesus.\\nThe beds in those countries were only a very thin,\\nsoft mattress, no bigger than a hearth-rug, and used\\nto be laid upon the ground.\\nThe four men went each to a corner of the bed,\\nand carried the sick man along the streets till they\\ncame to the ho7ise where Jesus was. When they\\ncame to it, they found that they could not get\\nthrough the door for the crowd. It was of no use\\nto push, or call out to the people to move; there\\nwas no room to carry a sick man along.\\nThe poor man said, Do not carry me home again,\\nI must see Jesus.\\nThe man s friends said, We cannot possibly get\\ninto the house. Then they thought of another and\\na strange way to reach the Saviour. There was a\\nstaircase outside the house which led to the roof.\\nThe roofs of all houses in those countries were flat,\\nso that people could walk as well upon the house-\\ntops as they could upon the floor of a room.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "THE CURING OF THE PARALYTIC.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "82 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHBIST.\\nThe four men carried their sick friend up this\\noutside staircase on to the flat roof. There was a\\ndoor in the roof leading to an inside staircase, but\\nthis was not large enough to let a man through\\nlying on his bed, so they made the opening larger\\nby breaking away some of the tiles. Then they let\\nhim down into the room where Jesus was sitting.\\nJesus was pleased to see their faith, and at once\\nspoke to the sick man.\\nFirst of all, he quieted the sorrow of his soul for\\nhis sins: he said, Be comforted, your sins are for-\\ngiven you.\\nThe people who came to find fault with Jesus now\\nsaid in their hearts, What a wicked man this Jesus\\nmust be, to pretend that he can forgive this man\\nhis sins, when God only can do so.\\nYou know that Jesus can forgive sin because he\\nis God, but then wicked men would not believe that\\nhe was the Son of God.\\nHe could see into their hearts too, and knew the\\nthoughts that were there.\\nHe said to them, You think that I cannot forgive\\nsins, but which is the easiest thing to do, to say to\\nthe man, Your sins are forgiven you, or to tell him\\nto get up and walk? I never say that I have power\\nto do anything, without really having that power,\\nand to show you how true this is, I say now to the\\nsick man, Arise, take up your bed, and walk back\\nto your home.\\nThen the poor man, who before could not move\\na limb, but was obliged to be carried to Jesus, now", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 83\\nrose, rolled up his bed, put it across his shoulders,\\nand walked home.\\nThe people who looked on feared and wondered\\nthey said, We never saw anything like this before.\\nStrange things have happened to-day.\\nThey could but feel that it was only God who had\\nthe power to put life into those palsied limbs, there-\\nfore he who could do this had also the power of God\\nto forgive sins.\\nThe enemies of Jesus found yet more fault with\\nhim. Now they said that he did not keep holy the\\nSabbath-day.\\nOne Sabbath morning Jesus went into a syna-\\ngogue to teach, and a man was there whose hand\\nwas so withered that he could not move it. Jesus,\\nsaw the poor man, and his enemies saw him too.\\nThey watched Jesus to see if he would heal him\\nor not; for, if he did so, they pretended that it\\nwould be as bad as working on the Sabbath-day.\\nHe called to the man with the withered hand, and\\nsaid, Stand up, so that all may be able to see you.\\nThe man stood up. Jesus turned to the fault-\\nfinders, and said, I want to ask you a question Is\\nit right to do good on the Sabbath-days or to do\\nevil? to save life or to kill?\\nJesus meant them to feel that if any one can do\\ngood and will not, then he does evil by refusing to\\ndo the good. He could cure this poor man, then he\\nought to do so, for it was a duty to save life even\\non a Sabbath-day.\\nJesus further said, Suppose one of you had a", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "84 A CHILD S LIFE OF CUBIST.\\nsheep which fell into a pit on a Sabbath-day, would\\nyou leave the poor sheep in the deep hole till the\\nnext day because you would not break the Sabbath?\\nYou know you would not. Is not a man better\\nthan a sheep? Why, then, should this poor man\\ngo on suffering pain till to-morrow, when I can\\nmake him well to-day?\\nJesus looked all around, to see if any one had\\nanything to answer. All were silent.\\nThen he turned to the man and said, Stretch out\\nyour hand. The man obeyed the command; the\\nhand was cured.\\nThe Pharisees were not glad to see the man made\\nwell. No, they were mad with anger, and said,\\nWe will kill this Sabbath-breaker.\\nAgain, on another Sabbath, while Christ was\\nteaching in the synagogue, he saw among his hear-\\ners a poor woman. Her back was bent down, and\\nshe could in no wise lift herself up.\\nFor eighteen long, weary years had this poor\\nwoman gone about bowed down under this affliction.\\nThe compassionate eye of Jesus saw her. He said,\\nWoman, come to me: she came, glad to be called\\nby the Healer. He laid his hands on her, and said,\\nWoman, you shall be cured. As soon as the words\\nwere spoken, her back was made straight, and she\\ncould walk upright, and she thanked God.\\nThe ruler of the synagogue did not dare to blame\\nJesus before all the people, so he turned to them\\nand said, Why do you come on th6 Sabbath-day to\\nbe healed? There are six days in the week besides;", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 85\\nin them men ought to work, and in them come and\\nbe healed.\\nThe Lord turned to the ruler, and said, You false\\nman you know that every one of you will take care\\nof his ox or his ass, and loose them from their stalls\\nand take them to their watering-place, even on a\\nSabbath-day. Why should I not, even on a Sab-\\nbath-day, loose this poor woman from her burden,\\nunder which she has been bowed down for years?\\nWhen Jesus had said these things, his enemies\\nfelt ashamed that he should have reproved them\\nbefore all the people, but others rejoiced at the\\nglorious things that were done by him.\\nAt another time, a Pharisee asked Jesus to come\\nto his house, to eat a meal with him, one Sabbath-\\nday. He did not ask him out of friendship, only to\\nspy his conduct. He had caused a man all swollen\\nwith dropsy to be there too; so this Pharisee and\\nhis friends watched Jesus to see if he would heal\\nhim. Jesus healed the man, and he asked the\\nPharisees if it was not right to cure on the Sabbath-\\nday? They made no answer, and Jesus knew that\\nit was of no use to try to teach them what was\\nright, if they were determined not to learn.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nTHE PAKABLE OF THE HIDDEN TREASURE PARABLE OF\\nTHE PEARL FEEDING THE MULTITUDE THE TRANS-\\nFIGURATION.\\nOne day Jesus went into a desert place with his\\ndisciples, for he wanted to be alone with them, that\\nhe might teach them quietly.\\nA great many people saw them go, and followed\\nafter them. When Jesus saw the crowds coming\\nto him, he was not angry at being disturbed. He\\nfelt pity for them they seemed to him to be like\\nsheep without a shepherd. He began to teach them\\nmany things, and to heal those that had need of\\nhealing.\\nWe do not know exactly what it was that Jesus\\ntaught that day, but the large multitude never\\nwearied of listening to him. We know that he\\nspoke to them of God s kingdom, and often talked\\nin parables.\\nIt may be that he said, The kingdom of God is\\nlike treasure hidden in a field. One day a man\\nfound this treasure: he said nothing to any one\\nabout what he had found, but sold all that he had,\\nso that he might have money enough to buy the\\nfield, and then the treasure would be his own.\\nJesus meant that he who would share in God s\\nkingdom must be willing to give up everything for\\nit: wealth, the good opinion of others, ease, self-\\npleasing, everything, in fact, that would prevent", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 87\\nhis having that greatest good treasure in Heaven.\\nIf necessary, all these should be given up for that.\\nPerhaps he told them the story of the beautiful\\npearl. How a man who bought and sold pearls,\\nwent to the countries and markets where they were\\nto be found, seeking for some which should be pure,\\nand large, and precious.\\nOne day he saw a pearl so large and costly, that\\nit was fit to be placed in the crown of a king. This\\npearl was worth so much, that he was obliged to\\nsell all that he had, before he was able to buy it.\\nWhen he had bought it, he felt now that he was\\nrich indeed.\\nJesus meant, some of you are going about, seek-\\ning for the pearl of happiness. Some of you seek\\nit in riches, but you will not find it there; some of\\nyou seek it in learning, but you will not find it\\nthere some of you seek it in pleasure, but you will\\nnot find it there; and some of you seek happiness\\nin always trying to have your own way, and in\\npleasing yourselves, but you will only find unhap-\\npiness there.\\nThe pearl or true happiness is only to be found by\\nbelieving in me, and learning of me, and obeying\\nmy voice.\\nYou must be willing to give up everything for\\nme, as the pearl merchant was willing to give up\\nall that he had, so that he might be able to buy that\\nlovely pearl.\\nAll who seek thus to enter into the kingdom of\\nGod will be sure to find, what is far better than a", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "88 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\ncostly pearl rest and joy. None ever seek in vain,\\nall are satisfied.\\nPerhaps Jesus said, Some of you are poor, I see,\\nand sometimes you feel afraid that you will not al-\\nways have food and clothing enough. Do not be\\nfearful, have trust in God. Look at the fowls of\\nthe air they do not sow seed for food, they do not\\nreap, nor store up their food in barns, yet your\\nHeavenly Father feeds them. It is your Father\\nwho feeds them. Did you ever know a father on\\nearth feed his fowls, and starve his children?\\nYou know that you never did. You may be quite\\nsure, then, that the Heavenly Father is not less kind\\nthan an earthly one.\\nThink of the beautiful lilies, too, how they grow\\nup in all their loveliness, with no care on their part\\nas to how they shall grow. They do not spin their\\nwhite robes, which are more beautiful and glorious\\nthan all the grandeur of your grandest king. Even\\nSolomon had no robes like theirs. But they take\\nno thought for heir clothing; God takes care for\\nthem, though they are only flowers. You may be\\nquite sure, then, that your Father will not let you\\nwant for proper clothing, if he thus clothes the\\nflowers of the field.\\nBe more careful to enter the kingdom of God\\nthan to enjoy any earthly good. Your Father\\nknows what you need, and he will not forget you.\\nSuch things as these, and many others, did Jesus\\nsay to the multitude, as they stood or sat around\\nhim in that desert place.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "THE FEEDING OF THE MULTITUDE.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nAll wondered at his gracious words, all said,\\nNever man spake like this man.\\nThe day was far spent, and still they crowded\\nround to listen to the Heavenly Teacher.\\nThen some of the twelve disciples said, Will you\\nnot tell the multitude to go home now; the day is\\nnearly gone, and this is a desert place? Send them\\ninto the towns and villages round about, so that\\nthey may buy themselves food, for they have noth-\\ning to eat.\\nJesus said unto them, They need not depart;\\ngive ye them to eat.\\nThey replied, We have only a little food our-\\nselves five small barley loaves, and two fishes.\\n(These loaves were only as large as a good-sized\\nbiscuit.)\\nThe disciples thought that it was no use to offer\\nthem to the vast crowds around them. The Master\\nsaid, Make all the people sit down upon the grass.\\nThen they sat down by hundreds and by fifties.\\nJesus took the loaves, and when he had given\\nthanks, he broke them into pieces, and sent his dis-\\nciples round to the people with the loaves and the\\nfishes which he had divided.\\nI cannot tell you how it was that the loaves and\\nfishes were enough for all that were there, but Jesus\\nmade enough for all and every man, woman, and\\nchild was satisfied.\\nJesus said, Do not let the pieces that are over be\\nwasted; go round and pick them up and put them\\ninto baskets.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 91\\nHow many people do you think there were to\\neat of these five loaves and two fishes?\\nThere were five thousand men, beside women and\\nchildren. I dare say one hungiy man could have\\neaten those five little loaves and two small fishes,\\nbut Jesus had made them enough for five thousand\\nmen. Beside that, when the disciples had gathered\\ntogether all the pieces, there was so much left that\\nthey filled twelve baskets with them. So you see\\nthere was more at the end of the meal than there\\nwas at the beginning.\\nBut though Jesus could thus create, or make some-\\nthing out of nothing, as only God can, yet he would\\nnot allow waste. He did not say, Never mind the\\nbroken pieces, I can always create more. No, he\\nsaid, Take care of the pieces, so that nothing be lost.\\nNotwithstanding the many and notable miracles\\nwhich Jesus wrought continually before the eyes of\\nhis disciples, their faith in him appears, nearly up\\nto the time of his death, to have been feeble and\\nwavering. There was, no doubt, much of the na-\\ntional temper in this. The Jewish mind was na-\\nturally more inflexible and perverse in the matter\\nof belief than that of the Gentiles generally. Our\\nLord had repeated occasion to reprove the infidelity\\neven of his own disciples, and to commend the faith\\nof Gentiles.\\nThey might have known by the wonders that he\\ndid, and by his teaching, that he was more than a\\nmere man, but they only judged of him by what\\nhe seemed to be.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "92 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nOnce, however, his three favorite disciples saw\\nhim look quite different from his usual appearance.\\nOne day he took Peter, James, and John to the\\ntop of a high mountain, where they were quite\\nalone. He went there to pray, and as he prayed he\\nwas changed before them. His face did shine as\\nthe sun, and his clothes were like robes of light.\\nSo exceeding white were they, that the disciples\\nknew that their splendor was not of earth, but of\\nHeaven.\\nTwo men then came from Heaven to speak to\\nhim. They were Moses and Elijah.\\nMoses, who was the giver of the Law to the\\nJews, came to speak to him who was the End of\\nthe Law. After Christ was offered up upon the\\ncross, all the Jewish sacrifices, which only pointed\\nto his death, were to be done away with, as no\\nlonger needful. Elijah, the prophet, was there to\\nspeak to him, of whose coming the prophets had\\nforetold. Now their prophecy is ended in fulfil-\\nment Christ has come.\\nThey talked together of the great event so soon\\nto happen the death of Jesus at Jerusalem, for the\\nsake of sinful men.\\nThis death was the wonder of the bright angels\\nin Heaven they could hardly understand it. Now\\nthat Moses and Elijah have come from Heaven, it is\\nthat which they talk about. Jesus, too, felt deeply\\nthe need there was for his death, when he saw how\\ndeeply man had fallen. He thought much of it,\\nhe talked about it, he prayed about it.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 93\\nAt last Moses and Elijah went back to Heaven.\\nThen a cloud of light came all around the disciples,\\nand they were afraid as they entered into it.\\nOut of the cloud came a voice, and they heard\\nthese words, This is my beloved Son, in whom I\\nam well pleased hear ye him\\nMoses and Elijah are gone; they taught of a\\nMessiah to come. He is come, he is Jesus who is\\nmy beloved Son, hear and obey him now.\\nThis was the meaning of that voice.\\nWhen the disciples heard it, they fell down on\\ntheir faces; they were so afraid that they dared not\\nlook upon the glory around them.\\nJesus came and touched them Do not be afraid,\\nhe said. They lifted up their eyes, they saw no one\\nthere but Jesus. Moses and Elijah were gone, the\\nbright cloud had passed away, the voice spoke no\\nmore.\\nJesus said, You have seen my glory, but do not\\ntell any one what you have seen, until I am risen\\nfrom the dead.\\nCHAPTER X.\\nTHE STRIFE OF THE DISCIPLES AS TO WHO SHOULD BE\\nGREATEST HE MAN WHO WAS BORN BLIND THE\\nSTORY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD.\\nSometimes Jesus sent out his disciples into the\\nvillages, to teach other people what he had before\\ntaught them. Once when they were returning to", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "94 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nCapernaum, after one of these journeys, they began\\ntalking together, and at last their words were sharp\\nand hasty they disputed among themselves.\\nWhat do you think it was that they quarrelled\\nabout? It was about which of them was best, who\\nloved Jesus most, who worked the hardest to teach\\nothers, and who should have the first place in the\\nkingdom of God.\\nWhen they came to Capernaum, they went to\\nthe house where Jesus was.\\nJesus looked up to them and said, What was it\\nthat you were quarrelling about as you walked\\nalong? They were all so ashamed of themselves\\nthat they could not give him any answer. Besides,\\nthey knew that if he could tell that they had been\\ndisputing, he could also tell what it was about.\\nI dare say that each of them thought that he was\\nthe best, and that not one of them was so meek and\\nlowly as the disciples of so good a Master should be.\\nJesus called to a little boy, who was near, to\\ncome to him.\\nHe put him into the midst of the disciples, and\\nsaid, This child is the least of you all, he knows the\\nleast, he thinks you are better than he is. Be like\\nthis little child among yourselves be humble, think\\nbut little of yourselves, and much of the good of\\nothers. Be meek and lowly, and do not care for\\ngrandeur. Great things and little things done for\\nme are of the same worth, if both are done out of\\nlove to me. All you do is worth only the love that\\nleads you to do it.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 95\\nOne Sabbath-day, as Jesus was leaving the temple\\nat Jerusalem with his disciples, they saw, in pass-\\ning along, a man begging, who had been blind from\\nhis birth.\\nThe disciples said, Master, why is this man blind?\\nIs it as a punishment for his own sins, or for the\\nsins of his parents?\\nJesus answered, Do not suppose that those people\\nwhom you see suffer most pain are the most wicked.\\nThis man is not blind for any sin of his own, nor\\nfor any sin of his parents, but that the power of\\nGod may be seen by his cure. I will remove his\\nblindness; as long as I am in the world, I am the\\nlight of the world.\\nWhen he had said these words, he spat on the\\nground and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the\\neyes of the blind man with the clay, and said, Now\\ngo and wash yourself in the pool of Siloam. The\\nman went to the pool, and he came back seeing.\\nThis blind beggar was well known many had\\nseen him as he sat daily by the wayside asking for\\ncharity. The neighbors were astonished, and said,\\nIs not this he who sat by the wayside begging?\\nSome said, Yes, it is the same man. Others, It is\\nnot he, but somebody like him. The blind man\\nsaid, I am the very man; I once was blind.\\nThey asked, How is it that your eyes are opened?\\nHe answered, A man named Jesus put some clay\\nupon my eyes, and told me to wash in the pool of\\nSiloam. I went and washed, as he bade me, and\\nthen my eyes were opened, so that I could see.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nThey said, Where is this man Jesus?\\nHe answered, I do not know where he is gone.\\nThen they took the blind man to the Pharisees,\\nand they asked him how it was that his eyes were\\nopened.\\nHe told them, as he had before told his neighbors,\\nthat Jesus had cured him.\\nOh said some of the Pharisees, this Jesus is not\\na good man, for he has broken the Sabbath-day by\\ncuring you.\\nOthers said, He must be a good man, for God\\nwould not give a wicked man the power to do such\\na wonderful work as this.\\nSo they could not agree among themselves about\\nJesus. They turned to the blind man and asked,\\nWhat do you think of him? He opened your eyes,\\nyou ought to be able to tell whether he is a good\\nman or not.\\nHe answered, He is a prophet, a man of God.\\nThe Jews then said, Surely there must be some\\nmistake you were not really blind before, you only\\npretended to be so.\\nThen they called the man s parents, and asked\\nthem, Is this your son? You say he was born\\nblind: how is it then that he can now see?\\nThe parents answered, This man is our son, and\\nhe was born blind; but how it is that he can see\\nnow, we do not know. He is grown up, and quite\\nable to answer any questions himself that you may\\nwish answered. You had better ask him how it is\\nthat his eyes are opened.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST, 97\\nWhen they heard what the parents said, and how\\nit was quite true that the man was born blind, they\\ncalled him to them again.\\nThey said, Give God the praise of your cure, for\\nwe know that this Jesus is a sinner.\\nThe man answered, Whether what you say is\\ntrue or not, of one thing I am quite sure, that he\\nhas cured me. I was blind, but now I see.\\nAgain they asked, What did he do to you? How\\ndid he open your eyes?\\nThe man replied, I have told you once already,\\nbut T ou would not believe me. Why do j r ou wish\\nme to tell you again? Is it because you wish to\\nbecome his disciples?\\nThen they were very angry, and said sharp,\\nunkind things to the poor man. You are the dis-\\nciple of that false teacher! You are the disciple of\\nthat Sabbath-breaker But we follow the teaching\\nof the true prophet, Moses, who was sent of God to\\nteach us his will. As to this man Jesus, we do not\\nknow where he comes from The man said, How\\nstrange this is: you Pharisees, who pretend to be\\nso wise, and learned, and good, can you not tell a\\nfalse teacher from a true one, or know good from\\nevil? Has not this Jesus opened my eyes, although\\nI have been blind all my life before, as my par-\\nents have told you, and as every one in the town\\nknows?\\nNo one could do this unless God gave him the\\npower, and God does not give such power to wicked\\nmen. So wonderful a cure as mine was never\\n7", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "98 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nheard of before, and if Jesus was not sent by God\\nhe could not have done it.\\nThe Pharisees were now still more angry, and\\nsaid, You wicked, ignorant man! How dare you\\npretend to teach us, who are so much wiser and\\nbetter than you are?\\nThen they drove him away from them, turned\\nhim out of the synagogue, and said they would not\\nlet him worship with them any more; a most seri-\\nous penalty, as it deprived him of his rights as a\\nJew, and made him an outcast from his father s\\nhome. When Jesus heard of this, he sought the\\nman out. And when he had found him, he said,\\nDo you believe in the Son of God?\\nThe man had not seen Jesus before, for he had\\nleft him when he sent him to the pool to wash. He\\ncame back seeing, but the Saviour was gone away.\\nThis, therefore, was the first time that the man\\nsaw him who had restored his sight.\\nIn answer to the question of Jesus, he said, Lord,\\nwho is the Son of God, that I might believe in him?\\nJesus said, You see him now, it is he who is talk-\\ning to you. Then the man knew that it was the\\nsame person who had cured him; he said, Lord, I\\nbelieve, and he worshipped him.\\nJesus first of all gave sight to the eyes of his\\nbody, then he opened the eyes of this man s mind,\\nso that he might see in him the Saviour.\\nJesus says, I am the light of the world he that\\nfolloweth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall\\nhave the light of life.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 99\\nJesus said, I am the Good Shepherd.\\nYou know that a shepherd is a man who takes\\ncare of sheep. Many of the good men that we read\\nof in the Bible were shepherds. Jacob and his sons\\nwere shepherds. David w r as a shepherd before he\\nbecame a king, and many others that we read of in\\nthe Bible were shepherds too.\\nIn Eastern countries, shepherds are very fond of\\ntheir sheep. They lead them into sw T eet pastures\\nby day, and at night, should any wild beast come\\nnear the flock, the3 r will hasten to save the sheep\\neven at the risk of their own lives.\\nWhen a lamb is tired or ill, they will not let it\\nwalk, but put it into the folds of their loose dress\\nand carry it in their bosom. They gently lead their\\nflocks, for it would not do to drive them fast under\\nthe burning sun of those Eastern lands.\\nWhen a silly sheep or lamb strays away from the\\nfold, how carefully does the shepherd look over the\\nmountain slopes and behind the rocks and bushes to\\nfind the wanderer L When it is found, how greatly\\ndoes he rejoice over the lost sheep!\\nThe shepherd goes before his sheep, and they fol-\\nlow him. He does not drive his sheep, as shepherds\\ndo here. They know his voice, and he calls them\\nby their names.\\nA few years ago, a gentleman was travelling in\\nJudea, and he was watching one of these shepherds\\nas he tended his flock. He saw that the shepherd\\noften plucked some grass and called one or other of\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2the sheep to him. He went up to him and said,", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "100 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST,\\nThe sheep come when you call them, but I suppose\\nthey would come to any one dressed as you are.\\nThe shepherd said, Will you try, sir? So the\\ngentleman and the shepherd changed clothes.\\nThe gentleman, dressed as the shepherd, plucked\\na handful of grass, and called a sheep, but it would\\nnot come; it did not know the stranger s voice.\\nThe shepherd, who was dressed as the gentleman,\\nthen called a sheep, and it came directly, even\\nthough he had no food to offer it.\\nThere! see 5 sir, the shepherd said, it is my voice\\nthey know, no matter how I am dressed. A\\nstranger they will not follow.\\nJesus is like the good shepherd of whom I have\\nbeen telling you. If they believe in him, grown-up\\npeople are the sheep, and believing children are the\\nlambs of the fold. The good shepherd will seek\\nafter the sheep that has wandered Jesus came to\\nseek and to save those who have gone astray from\\nGod, and are lost in the ways of sin. The good\\nshepherd will risk his life to save his sheep. Jesus\\nhas laid down his life for the sake of his sheep.\\nThe good shepherd feeds his flocks with sweet\\npasture; Jesus feeds his people with truth for the\\nsoul. He puts good thoughts into their hearts.\\nHe gives them the Holy Spirit. Are you one of\\nthe lambs of Christ s flock?\\nThe sheep obey the shepherd s voice, they come\\nwhen he calls them, they go where he leads them.\\nDo you follow Jesus? Do you obey his voice?\\nWhen you want to go in the path of your own", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "JESUS BLESSING THE CHILDREN.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "102 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nsinful will, do you stop and say, No, the Good\\nShepherd does not lead me here, I will go in the\\nway that he leads?\\nHe leads from all selfishness, pride, anger, deceit,\\nenvy, and every sin.\\nHe leads to gentleness, meekness, truthfulness,\\nlove, and all goodness.\\nCHAPTEE XI\\nJESUS BLESSES THE CHILDEEN THE EICH YOUNG MAN\\nIn one of the towns beyond the river Jordan\\nsome people might be seen talking earnestly to-\\ngether. Jesus of Nazareth was coming into their\\ntown, and all day he had been teaching them and\\nhealing their sick. It was about him they spoke.\\nSurely, said one, He must be Israel s promised\\nSaviour. Yes, said another, no prophet has ever\\nyet done such wonderful works as we see him do.\\nAnd how strange are his teachings, how full of\\nlove his words! and he heals the sick so tenderly!\\nsaid a third.\\nHe is greater than our father Abraham, said a\\nyoung Hebrew mother; how I should like his bless-\\ning on my child She looked fondly on her baby as\\nit lay asleep in her bosom it was her first-born son.\\nLet us take our children to him, said the parents\\nof the group, and ask him to put his hands on them\\nand bless them. The parents took their little ones,", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 103\\nand went to the place where Jesus was sitting with\\nhis disciples.\\nWhat are these children coming here for? said\\nPeter, James, and John. Take them away; the\\nMaster cannot be troubled with young children.\\nThey are not sick, they do not want healing; you\\ncannot bring them here.\\nBut Jesus said, Come back.\\nHe turned to his disciples and said, I am very\\nmuch displeased with you: why do you send them\\naway? It is true they have not come for healing,\\nbut they want a blessing. Let the little ones come\\nunto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the\\nkingdom of Heaven.\\nSo the children came near to the gentle Jesus,\\nand he took the babies in his arms, and put the\\nlittle ones on his knee, and placed his hands on the\\nheads of the others, and gave them his blessing.\\nOh, how happy were those parents as they went\\nto their homes, saying, We knew he would notice\\nthe children. He seemed pleased to have them\\nbrought to him.\\nAmong the many people who came to Jesus was\\na rich young man, and he was a ruler of the syna-\\ngogue. He seemed to be very much in earnest, for\\nhe came running to the Saviour. He looked upon\\nhim as worthy of great respect, for he knelt before\\nhim as he spoke to him. He came to ask the most\\nimportant of all questions that any one can ask,\\nGood Master, what shall I do that I may have\\neternal life? He had wealth, he had position, he", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nhad the good opinion of others, but he felt that he\\nhad not eternal life. The good things of this life\\ncould not make him happy he wanted a better life\\nthan they could give, so he came to ask Jesus how\\nhe should obtain it.\\nJesus said, If you wish for a life of endless happi-\\nness, keep the commandments.\\nWhich? inquired he.\\nYou know them, replied the Saviour; do not kill,\\ndo not steal, do not say unkind and untrue things\\nof others, obey and honor your father and your\\nmother, and love your neighbor as yourself.\\nMaster, I have kept these laws from my youth\\nuntil now what more need I do?\\nJesus looked at him as he asked this question;\\nand as he looked he loved him.\\nHe saw before him a kind-hearted man, one of\\nthose whose outward conduct was without fault.\\nBut the Saviour looked into his heart, and saw that\\nall this outward goodness did not spring from love\\nto God. Something there was loved more than\\nGod that something was his riches. He cared\\nmore for his treasure on earth, than for treasure\\nin Heaven.\\nJesus said, If you wish for eternal life above\\neverything else, then go and sell all that you have,\\nand give away your money to the poor you shall\\nthen have treasure in Heaven and come and fol-\\nlow me.\\nThese words of Jesus fell sadly on the ear of the\\nrich ruler: he could not do this one thing that Jesus", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 105\\nasked him. Part of his riches he might have been\\nwilling to have given up, but all no, the sacrifice\\nwas too great, even if eternal life was the reward.\\nHe had come to Jesus gladly, but he turned away\\nfrom him with sorrow, for he could not follow him\\nand give up his possessions.\\nWhen he was gone, Jesus looked round about on\\nhis disciples, and said, How hard is it for a rich\\nman to enter into the kingdom of Heaven\\nHow is it so difficult? asked the disciples.\\nBecause, said the Master, he who would follow\\nme into eternal life, must be willing to give up all\\nfor me.\\nWhere this rich ruler was wrong was, that he\\ncared more for his money, his rank, and his ease,\\nthan to please God. He thought that he was very\\ngood, but Jesus showed him that his heart was sin-\\nful, even if his outward conduct was good. God\\nwas not chief and first with him. If he had been\\nkind and good to his neighbor, and so kept part of\\nthe commandments, he had not kept the first part,\\nwhich is to love God with all the heart, and soul,\\nand strength. He loved himself best.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XII\\nMAKY AND MARTHA THE RAISING OF LAZARUS FROM THE\\nDEAD BLIND BARTIMEUS THE CALLING OF ZACCHEUS\\nMARY ANOINTS JESUS* FEET\\nAbout a mile and a half from the city of Jeru-\\nsalem, at the bottom of the Mount of Olives, was\\nthe village of Bethany.\\nIn one of the houses there lived a brother and\\ntwo sisters. Their names were Lazarus, Mary, and\\nMartha. They all three loved Jesus dearly, and\\nhe loved them, too, very much.\\nHe would often go to see them while he was stay-\\ning at Jerusalem, for it was a pleasant walk to\\nBethany from that city.\\nMartha was the mistress of the house. She liked\\nto show her love to Jesus by being very busy and\\nmaking him nice things to eat. Mary liked best to\\nsit at the feet of Jesus and to hear him talk.\\nMartha was once vexed with Mary because she did\\nnot come and help her, and she said to Jesus, Lord,\\nbid my sister come and help me.\\nJesus said, Martha, you need not take so much\\ntrouble on my account; but one thing is needful,\\nand Mary is wise to listen to the good things which\\nI talk about you had better choose the same good\\npart too.\\nSo Jesus, instead of sending Mary away to help\\nMartha get him a feast, told Martha to sit by Mary s", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST, 107\\nside and have a feast from him of things good for\\nthe soul.\\nOne day Lazarus was taken very ill. He became\\nworse and worse. The sisters said, Let us send to\\nour dear friend Jesus, and tell him. Jesus was\\nthen in Peraea, about a day s journey from Bethany.\\nThis was the message that they sent: Lord, he\\nwhom thou lovest is sick.\\nJesus told the man who brought the message to\\ntell Martha and Mary that this sickness would not\\nend in the death of Lazarus.\\nThis message comforted the sisters they thought,\\nHe will surely come himself and heal him.\\nBut Jesus stayed on in the place where he was\\nteaching the people when the message came.\\nOh, what a weary time that was at Bethany at\\nthe house of Lazarus! He died on the evening of\\nthe day that the messenger returned from Jesus.\\nThe next day the sisters said one to another,\\nSurely our dear friend will come to-day; but the\\nshades of evening closed over Bethany, and Jesus\\nhad not come.\\nIn those hot countries people are obliged to bury\\ntheir friends a very short time after death. So\\nMary and Martha had to bury their brother before\\nJesus came.\\nAll the next day they waited, but they waited in\\nvain. He seemed to have broken his promise: he\\nhad always been faithful and true before, but now\\nhe seemed false. He said the sickness would not\\nend in death but Lazarus was dead.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "108 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nAt last they sent again to tell him that Lazarus\\nwas dead.\\nJesus then said, Let us go to Bethany, our friend\\nLazarus sleeps: I will go and awake him.\\nThey said, Lord, if he sleeps he will get better.\\nBut Jesus spoke of the sleep of death, while they\\nthought that he spoke of the rest of sleep. So\\nJesus told them plainly that Lazarus was dead.\\nWhen Jesus was near Bethany, Martha heard\\nthat he was coming, and she went to meet him.\\nShe said, Lord, if you had but come before, my\\nbrother would not have died but even now I know\\nthat God will do whatever you ask him.\\nJesus knew what she was hoping for, and said,\\nYour brother shall rise again.\\nMartha said, Yes, Lord, I know he will rise\\nagain at the last day. She hardly liked to say, But\\nwill he rise again now?\\nJesus said, It is from me that all life comes: the\\nsouls of those that believe in me shall never die,\\nand, even if their bodies are dead, I can make them\\nlive again now, as well as at the resurrection-day,\\nwhen all dead bodies will rise from the grave. Do\\nyou believe this?\\nShe said, Yes, Lord, I believe you are the Son of\\nGod, and can do all things.\\nWhen she had said so, she went back to the house\\nto her sister Mary, and whispered in her ear the\\nwelcome words, The Master is come, he asks for\\nyou.\\nPoor Mary was sitting in the house with a great", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "THE DISCIPLES PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "110 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nmany friends, some of whom had come from Jeru-\\nsalem to comfort her and her sister in their trouble.\\nShe was broken-hearted with grief, but at these\\nsoftly-spoken words of Martha s she felt that he\\nwho could indeed comfort her was come. She rose\\nup hastily, and went out to Jesus.\\nThe Jews who were in the house had not heard\\nwhat Martha had said to Mary, and they thought\\nthat she was going to the grave of Lazarus to weep\\nthere. So they followed her.\\nJesus had not yet come into the village; he had\\nstayed in the place where Martha had left him.\\nWhen Mary saw Jesus, she fell down at his feet,\\nand could only cry out, Lord, if you had but come,\\nmy brother would not have died. She could say\\nno more: her tears fell fast.\\nThen the Jews that were with her wept too; the\\ngrief of the sisters was so great.\\nThe sight of all this sorrow went to the heart of\\nthe Man Christ Jesus. He sighed a deep, bitter\\nsigh.\\nTell me where you have buried him.\\nThey said, Lord, come with us and we will show\\nyou. So they walked to the grave, and Jesus wept.\\nHe loved Martha, and Mary, and Lazarus, and his\\ntender heart could not bear to see this dreadful\\ngrief, and not to share it.\\nSome of the Jews, when they saw his tears, said,\\nHe must have loved Lazarus very much.\\nOthers, who were not very kind, said, If he can\\nmake blind people see, he couJd have made the sick", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. Ill\\nman well; so if he had loved him he would not have\\nlet him die at all.\\nAt last they came to the tomb: it was a cave. A\\ngreat stone lay against the opening, so as to shut it\\nup close.\\nWhen Jesus saw the grave of his friend, he\\nagain gave a deep sigh. He said to the people\\nround him, Take away that stone. Martha said,\\nLord, he has been dead four days, and so by this\\ntime his body has begun to decay away and smell\\nbadly.\\nJesus said, Did I not tell you, that if you believed\\nyou should see the wonderful power of God?\\nThen they took away the stone from the grave,\\nand Jesus looked in and saw the body of Lazarus\\nlying dead.\\nJesus prayed to his Father in heaven he said,\\nFather, I thank thee that thou hast heard me, and\\nI know that thou hearest me always, but for the\\nsake of the crowd that stand by I speak, that they\\nmay believe that thou hast sent me.\\nWhen Jesus had finished, all the people stood by,\\nwondering what he would do next; and Martha\\nand Mary hoped he would make Lazarus alive\\nagain.\\nThen Jesus cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come\\nforth\\nThe dead man heard the voice of him who is the\\nResurrection and the Life. The grave cannot hold\\nthe dead against the command of the Prince of Life\\nfor Life is stronger than Death.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "112 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nLazarus came forth, bound hand and foot with\\ngrave clothes wrapped around him.\\nJesus said, Loose from him the clothes, and take\\nthe cloth from his face, and let him go home.\\nYes, Jesus had not disappointed them. He had\\nkept his word the sickness did not end in death,\\nfor Lazarus was alive and well.\\nEvery one who saw this miracle was astonished,\\nand many believed that Jesus was the Son of God;\\nbut some of the ill-natured ones went to the Phari-\\nsees, who were the enemies of Jesus, and told them\\nof this new and greatest wonder that Jesus had\\ndone. What came of their telling these things to\\nthe Pharisees you shall now hear.\\nWhen Lazarus was raised from the dead, some\\nJews went to the Pharisees at Jerusalem, and told\\nthem that this wonder of bringing a man back to\\nlife after he had been dead four days, had led many\\nto believe on Jesus as the Son of God.\\nThe Chief Priests, and Scribes, and Pharisees\\nthen held a meeting or council together, to talk\\nover what they should do to Jesus. They said We\\nmust not let him go on working wonders, or else\\nevery one will think he is the Saviour, and will\\ncome and make him king; then the Eomans will be\\nangry, and fight us, and kill us all.\\nThe High Priest Caiaphas said It is at any rate\\nbetter that one should die for all, than that all the\\nnation should perish.\\nYes, they said, we must try to seize Jesus, arid\\nwhen we have taken him, we will find some excuse", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "MARY AND MARTHA.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "114 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nor other for having him put to death. They then\\nsaid that if anybody knew where Jesus was, he\\nmust come and tell them, that they might take\\nhim.\\nThe feast of the Passover would soon be held at\\nJerusalem, and as the Jews from all parts of the\\ncountry came to it, so they hoped to catch him then.\\nThey looked for Jesus everywhere, but they could\\nnot find him. Do you think he will come to the\\nfeast? Do you think he will be afraid and stay\\naway? These were the questions that they asked\\none another, as they met in the temple and in the\\nstreets of Jerusalem.\\nWhere do you think Jesus went after he raised\\nLazarus from the grave? He did not stay at Beth-\\nany, for that was too close to Jerusalem. He went\\nto Ephraim, which was a very quiet village in the\\ndesert of Judea, and several miles north of Jeru-\\nsalem. There he was not known, and there for a\\nshort time he could talk with his disciples undis-\\nturbed. He wanted to prepare them for his death,\\nwhich was so soon to take place at Jerusalem.\\nHe said The Chief Priests, and Scribes, and\\nPharisees will take me, and they will say I must\\ndie. They will then give me up to the Komans,\\nwho will put me to death. They will laugh at me,\\nand mock me, and spit on me, and whip me, and at\\nlast they will kill me; but I shall rise from my\\ngrave after I have been dead three days.\\nThe disciples did not like to hear of all these sad\\ntroubles happening to their Master. They were\\n8", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 115\\nvery much astonished that he should talk so, and\\nthey were frightened.\\nThey did not understand how it could he; but\\nJesus told them that if they would but look at what\\ntheir own prophets had written in their Scriptures,\\nthey would see that the Saviour would have to suffer\\nand die. However, they did not yet understand.\\nAfter all these things had taken place, then they\\nunderstood.\\nJesus could not stay long at Ephraim.\\nHe went from thence to Jericho, which place was\\nabout six hours walk from Jerusalem. At this\\nplace he could meet the people who were coming\\nfrom his own country Galilee, as they, too, were on\\ntheir way to the feast at Jerusalem.\\nJust as Jesus came to Jericho he met a large\\ntravelling party from Galilee. The people knew him\\nat once, and remembered all the mighty works he\\nhad done while he lived among them. They began\\nto praise and honor him as he joined their company.\\nWhen they came to the gate of the town, they\\nsaw a poor blind man named Bartimeus sitting\\nthere, and begging of all those who came in and\\nout of the town.\\nBartimeus heard the noise, as it were, of a great\\ncrowd coming along the road.\\nWhat is the meaning of all the noise I hear? he\\nasked of some one near him.\\nJesus, the prophet of Nazareth, is coming along\\nthis way, and a great many people are with him,\\ncrying after him.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "116 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nThe poor blind man thought: Jesus of Nazareth!\\nWhy he is the very person I wanted to meet they\\nsay he cures blind people, I hope he will cure me.\\nSo he cried very loudly Jesus, thou son of David,\\nhave mercy on me.\\nHush, said the people, don t make such a noise,\\nyou will disturb the Saviour; it is not likely that\\nhe will stop this procession just to attend to a poor\\nblind beggar like you.\\nBut I want to be cured of my blindness, and now\\nis the time. So he cried yet louder, Jesus, have\\npity on me.\\nThen Jesus heard his cry of distress, and he stood\\nstill. Bring that poor man to me, he wants me to\\ndo something for him.\\nThe people knew that he never raised a hope to\\ndisappoint it, that he never called any one to come\\nto him unless he meant to help him. They said to\\nthe poor man: Be glad, arise, and go to Jesus, he\\ncalls you to him.\\nThen the blind man, in his haste to go to the\\nSaviour, threw down his cloak and went.\\nJesus said, What is it that you want me to do\\nfor you? Lord, that I may have my sight.\\nJesus said: You shall see, because you believed\\nI could cure you, I will give you your sight.\\nDirectly Jesus spoke these words, he opened his\\neyes, and he could then see.\\nFull of thankfulness, he joined the crowd which\\nfollowed Jesus, shouting his praises.\\nJesus did not go on to Jerusalem with this large", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 117\\ntravelling party. Just outside the town of Jericho\\nlived a man named Zaccheus. He was a tax-\\ngatherer and a rich man. He was short, and as he\\nwanted to see Jesus, whom all the people were\\npraising, and of whom he had heard so much, he\\nclimbed into a sycamore-tree.\\nNow, he thought, I shall be above the people, and\\nI shall get a good sight of the procession as it passes\\nalong the road.\\nJesus, as he went by, saw Zaccheus up in the\\ntree, so he said to him Zaccheus, make haste and\\ncome down, for I am going to stay in your house\\nto-day. Then was Zaccheus very glad indeed. He\\nmade haste down from the tree, that he might take\\nJesus home w r ith him.\\nWhen the multitude saw this, they were very\\nmuch surprised, and said It is a strange thing that\\nthe Son of God should go and lodge at the house of\\na man who does not bear a good character.\\nThe heart of Zaccheus was full of love to him\\nwho had so honored him. He showed his love by\\nhis sorrow for his past sins. Perhaps he had not\\nbeen kind to the poor; now he said he would give\\naway half his money to the poor. Perhaps he had\\ntaken from people more money than he ought to\\nhave done for the taxes; so he said: If I have\\nwronged any one, I will give him back four times\\nas much as I have wrongfully taken from him.\\nJesus was very glad to see him repent of his sins,\\nand begin to do right, and he said that he was one\\nof those to whom his salvation had come.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "118 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nThen he told the multitude who were displeased\\nwith him because he went to the house of a sinful\\nman, that he came into the world on purpose to seek\\nand to save that which was lost. The worse a man\\nwas, the more he needed some one to bring him\\nback, like a lost sheep, to the fold.\\nWhen Jesus left Jericho, he went to Bethan}^\\nIt was on a Friday that he went; the very next\\nFriday after that, he was crucified.\\nThe Jewish Sabbath, as you know, is not on our\\nSunday, but on our Saturday; it begins after sun-\\nset on Friday and ends at sunset on Saturday. This\\nlast Jewish Sabbath before the death of Jesus was\\nspent by him with his friends at Bethany.\\nA man named Simon invited Jesus to come and\\neat his Sabbath meal with him. Lazarus, whom\\nhe had raised from the dead, was invited too, and\\nthe busy Martha waited upon Jesus while he sat\\nat meat.\\nMary was also there. She had brought with her\\na box of very precious ointment as a present for\\nJesus. With thLs she rubbed his feet those feet\\nwhich were so often tired, as he went about doing\\ngood and pleasing not himself; and with the hair\\nof her head she lovingly wiped them. Very fra-\\ngrant was the scent of this sweet ointment; as\\nMary broke the seal of the box to pour it out, the\\nwhole house was filled with its delicious odor. But\\nsweeter far to Jesus was the love which led her to\\nmake this offering.\\nIt cost much money, but Mary thought nothing", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 119\\nwas too good or too costly for Jesus. She was glad\\nto show her love by giving him the very best of\\nwhat she had.\\nThen said one of the disciples, Judas Iscariot It\\nwas very wasteful of you, Mary, to spend so much\\nmoney for such a little use; you had better have\\nsold the ointment, and given the money to the\\npoor.\\nDid Judas care for the poor? No, he kept the\\nbag in which the money for the poor was put, and\\nhe was a thief, and stole some of the money that\\nwas in it. He thought If all the money that the\\nointment was worth had been put into the bag, I\\ncould have taken some for myself without its being\\nmissed.\\nJesus said to Judas: Do not blame Mary, she\\nhas not been wasteful. This was a gift of love,\\nand love is not to be measured by money. There\\nwill always be poor people in the world for whom\\nyou can care, and you can do them good whenever\\nyou please. You will not have me with you long, for\\nthe day of my death is near, and Mary knows this.\\nAs soon as ever the sun had set on this Jewish\\nSabbath evening, numbers of Jews came from the\\ncity of Jersalem to see Jesus and to see Lazarus.\\nThese Jews had come from all parts of the coun-\\ntry by thousands, to eat the feast of the Passover\\nat Jerusalem during the coming week. They had\\nheard, when they reached Jerusalem, of the won-\\nderful miracle Jesus had done in raising Lazarus\\nfrom the grave, so they w r alked to Bethany to see", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "120 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nLazarus for themselves. Then many of them be-\\nlieved that Jesus was the Son of God.\\nThis made the Chief Priests and Pharisees still\\nmore angry, and they said We must put Lazarus\\nto death as well as Jesus, because by reason of him\\nmany Jews go away and believe in Jesus.\\nCHAPTER XIII\\nCHRIST S TRIUMPHANT ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM HE\\nTEACHES IN THE TEMPLE THE TRIBUTE-MONEY JUDAS\\nSELLS HIS MASTER\\nOn the next day,* which was the first day of the\\nweek, Jesus went from Bethany to Jerusalem, with\\nhis disciples and a large number of people.\\nAs he was going along the road, he said to two\\nof his disciples Go into the village close by, and\\nyou will see an ass and her young one tied up.\\nUntie them and bring them to me.\\nIf the man to whom they belong asks you what\\nyou are doing, say to him, The Lord wants them.\\nThen he will let you bring them.\\nThe two disciples went and found all as Jesus\\nhad said, so they untied the ass and brought it to\\nhim.\\nSome of the multitude now threw their cloaks\\nupon the ass, and Jesus sat thereon and they all\\nshouted his praises.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "*^H\\nQM\\nTHE ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "122 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST,\\nAs soon as it was known in Jerusalem that Je-\\nsus was on his way to the city, great numbers of\\npeople came out to meet him with branches of\\nthe palm-tree, which they waved about as they re-\\njoiced. Others took off their cloaks and laid them\\non the ground, so as to make a carpet for Jesus to\\nride upon.\\nThen the multitude again praised God with a\\nloud voice, for all the wonders they had seen Jesus\\ndo, and said It is true that he has raised Lazarus\\nfrom the tomb.\\nThey cried Blessed- be the King that cometh in\\nthe name of the Lord, peace in Heaven, and glory\\nin the highest.\\nThere were some Pharisees in the crowd, and\\nthey said to Jesus Teacher, why do you not rebuke\\nyour disciples for crying out so?\\nJesus told them that the coming of the Messiah\\nwas so great an event that should the multitude\\nremain quiet, God would give even the stones a\\nvoice to rejoice at his approach. Yes, it was\\nenough to make the very dullest shout and be\\nglad.\\nNow Jesus v/as within sight of Jerusalem. He\\ncould see its towers glittering in the sunlight.\\nThere was the well-known temple of God, and the\\nvarious buildings of which every Jew was so proud.\\nAs he drew near to the city, tears of pity filled his\\neyes.\\nWhy did Jesus weep? He saw the vast crowd\\naround him, and heard the multitude cry, as with", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST, 123\\nthe voice of one man, Behold the King of Israel.\\nHe knew that in a few days this same crowd would\\nshout, Crucify him, crucify him. It was not for\\nhimself, however, that he wept. He wept over the\\nsin of the people in refusing to have him as their\\nSaviour. He wept to think of the heavy woes\\nwhich were so soon to come upon this very city, as\\na punishment for its great wickedness.\\nAt length Jesus came through the city gate, and\\nrode into the streets of Jerusalem. Every one came\\nout of his house to see the throng and to ask who it\\nis that the multitude is praising.\\nIt is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth, people cried.\\nJesus then went into the temple, and the blind\\nand the lame came to him to be cured, and he made\\nthem quite well.\\nThe Chief Priests and the Scribes looked on, and\\nwere much displeased to see the wonders that Jesus\\ndid, and to hear the praises of the multitudes. Even\\nthe children cried, Hosanna to the Son of David.\\nThen the Chief Priests said to Jesus: Do you not\\nhear what a noise these children make? Why do\\nyou not stop them?\\nI hear them, said Jesus. Have you read in the\\nPsalms of David that God has made praise to come\\nout of the mouths of babes and sucklings?\\nJesus then left the temple, and when the evening\\ncame he went back to Bethany.\\nDarker and deeper grew the hatred of the Scribes\\nand Pharisees against Jesus. They had meant to\\nhave seized him when he came to Jerusalem, but", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "124 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nnow they did not dare to take him, for the whole\\ncity was calling him King.\\nVexed and disappointed, they said: We are no\\nnearer getting him into our power than we were\\nbefore; the whole world is gone after him. Then\\nthey thought among themselves how they should\\nget him, and said We must take him by deceit and\\ncunning, if we cannot by force. We must not take\\nhim at the time of the feast of the Passover, lest\\nthere be an uproar among the people, and lest they\\ntry to get him away from us. We had better seize\\nhim before the feast, or afterwards before will be\\nbest. We will watch him while he is teaching the\\npeople, and try to make him say something which\\nwill seem to be against our law, or against the\\nRoman government.\\nThe next morning Jesus returned from Bethany,\\nand went to the temple to teach the crowds who\\ncame to hear him.\\nThe Chief Priests and Pharisees were there, seek-\\ning how they might destroy him; but they could\\nnot do anything, for all the people hung round him\\nto hear him, and listened with great attention.\\nAt evening Jesus again went back to Bethany.\\nThe next morning Jesus returned to the temple\\nat Jerusalem. At an early hour a large crowd had\\ngathered there, waiting for his coming from Beth-\\nany; and there, like beasts of prey, were Christ s\\nenemies, seeking how they might catch him.\\nThey sent spies to him, who pretended to be good\\nmen who really wanted Christ to teach them what", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 125\\nwas right. They asked him a question which, in\\nwhatever way he answered it, they hoped would be\\nsure to offend some of the parties at Jerusalem.\\nThey were very sly; they seemed to treat Christ\\nwith respect, for they dared not do otherwise when\\nevery one was looking on him as a prophet of God.\\nThey said to him Teacher, we know that you say\\nwhat is right, and are not afraid to speak the truth.\\nNow tell us what you think. Ought we to give\\ntribute to Caesar, or not?\\nJesus knew that if he said, No, do not give this\\ntax money to the Roman Emperor Caesar, then the\\nEomans would say that he was speaking against\\nthe government of the country, and they would\\nthen put him in prison for rebellion. If Jesus said,\\nYes, you ought to pay the tax, then the Jewish\\nchiefs would be offended, and say that he was not\\na friend to their nation, because he taught the peo-\\nple to pay taxes to an emperor who had conquered\\nthem, and whom they hated.\\nJesus saw through all their craft, and said Why\\ndo you try to catch me in my words? Show me\\nthe money that you pay for the tax. Then they\\nbrought him a Eoman penny.\\nJesus looked at the coin and said Whose image\\nis stamped upon this piece of money?\\nThey said, It is the likeness of Caesar.\\nThen Jesus said Give to Caesar that which be-\\nlongs to Caesar, and give to God the things that are\\nGod s.\\nThis wise and true answer could not give offence", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "126 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nto any one. His enemies wondered exceedingly at\\nit, and they held their tongues.\\nAgain and again one party or another came to\\nhim, to try to make him say something for which\\nthey could blame him, but in vain.\\nThis was the last day that Jesus taught in public.\\nThis Tuesday evening he went to Bethanj and\\nremained there quietly with his disciples until\\nThursday afternoon.\\nDisappointed and angry, the enemies of Jesus\\nagain met in council. We will have his life, they\\nsaid how shall we take it?\\nJust then Judas came to them.\\nHe said: So you want to get Jesus into your\\npower? I will help you, but you must pay me for\\nmy trouble.\\nThey said, We will give you thirty pieces of\\nsilver. This was about the price of a slave.\\nPerhaps they offered this small sum in order to\\nshow how they hated and despised Jesus, by putting\\nupon his life only the value of a slave s life.\\nJudas said: I will take the money and betray\\nJesus. I know where he goes at night, and I will\\nshow you where he is when he is alone with his dis-\\nciples. There will then be no crowd near to inter-\\nfere, and you can take him away quite easily.\\nIt was on Wednesday evening that Judas left the\\ncouncil to seek for a convenient time to betray\\nJesus. This time soon came.\\nThe enemies of Christ said: Now he will soon be\\nin our power, and then we will kill him and they", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CUBIST. 127\\nrejoiced with a wicked joy. They were like Satan\\nhimself, for he is always glad at wickedness and\\nCHAPTER XIV\\nTHE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER THE LAST SUPPER JESUS\\nCOMFORTS HIS DISCIPLES\\nYou have been told that this week the feast of\\nthe Passover was held at Jerusalem and that many\\nthousands of Jews had come up from all parts of\\nthe country to keep it.\\nDo you know why this feast was held, and what\\nthe Passover meant?\\nIt was the chief of the Jewish feasts, and it was\\nkept at Jerusalem every year in remembrance of\\nthe deliverance of the Jews from the land of Egypt.\\nAbout fifteen hundred years before this time, the\\nJews were slaves to the Egyptians, who treated\\nthem very cruelly. God heard their cry of suffer-\\ning, and sent Moses to bring them out from the\\nland of Egypt into Canaan, or Palestine.\\nBut Pharaoh, the Egyptian king, would not let\\nthem go; so God sent ten dreadful plagues upon the\\nEgyptians. The last was the worst, and after that\\nPharaoh let the children of Israel go.\\nThis last plague was the death of the first-born.\\nGod said that he would send an angel to pass over", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "128 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nall the land of Egypt to kill the first-born son in\\nevery house, from the kingly house of Pharaoh to\\nthe house of the poorest beggar.\\nBut God said The angel shall not go into any of\\nthe houses of the Israelites or Jews if there is the\\nblood of a lamb sprinkled upon the door-posts, the\\nangel shall pass over those houses.\\nGod also said You must take a lamb for each\\nfamily, it must be a lamb that has nothing the\\nmatter with it, it must have no disease. You must\\nkill it and sprinkle the blood on your door-posts for\\nthe angel to see. Then you must roast it whole\\nand eat it. If you cannot eat it all, then you must\\nburn what is left with fire, and not leave any till\\nmorning. This was because meat in that hot coun-\\ntry turns bad or corrupt in a very short time, and\\nit was not fit that any part of a sacrifice to God,\\nsuch as this lamb was, should become corrupt.\\nThey were to eat the lamb with bread made with-\\nout yeast or leaven. It was called unleavened\\nbread. Now leaven is a kind of corruption, and\\ncauses fermentation in the bread in which it is used.\\nThey were to eat bread made without yeast, to\\nteach them to put away sin in their hearts, which is\\nlike leaven in corrupting and spreading throughout\\nevery part.\\nThey were to eat it also with bitter salad or\\nherbs, to remind them of the bitter and hard bond-\\nage that they had suffered in Egypt. They were to\\neat it standing, with their shoes on their feet and\\ntheir staff in their hands, so as to be quite ready to", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "THE LAST SUPPER.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "130 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nstart at once for their journey that night from the\\nland of Egypt. As they ate it they thanked God for\\nsending his angel to pass over their houses, while\\nhe stopped at the houses of the Egyptians.\\nThis was the passover night. Every year after\\nthat, when the same day came round again, the\\nJews ate a meal in the same way to remind them\\nof that night when the loud wail echoed through\\nevery Egyptian habitation when the first-born in\\neach family was dead. The passover was ever after\\nto be annually observed, a season of holy glad-\\nness.\\nThe passover lamb was a type of Christ. Sin\\nand Satan are worse taskmasters than the Egyp-\\ntians ever were, and theirs is a harder service than\\nthat suffered by the Jews of old.\\nJesus has come to set us free from their power.\\nWe deserve punishment for our many sins. Jesus\\ngave himself up as a sacrifice for sin. He was with-\\nout any fault or sin himself, and God will pass\\nover our sins for the sake of Jesus, if we seek to be\\nforgiven through his death. So Jesus is called our\\nPassover.\\nOn the first day of the Feast of the Passover the\\ndisciples of Jesus asked him where he meant to keep\\nthe feast. To what house shall we go? said they,\\nfor Jesus had no house of his own.\\nJesus said When you go into the city you will\\nsee a man with a jug of water in his hand; follow\\nhim. Notice the house where the man goes in, and\\nthen say to the master of that house The Teacher", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHB1ST. 131\\nsays to you, Where is the guest chamber, that I\\nmay eat the passover with my disciples? He will\\nshow you a large upper room ready furnished, where\\nyou may make the supper ready.\\nSo Peter and John went to Jerusalem, and found\\nall happen just as Jesus had said.\\nThey found the man with the jug of water, and\\nthey went to the master of the house where he\\nstopped. He took them up-stairs and showed them\\na room with a table and couches, and all the cups\\nand dishes that they wanted for the supper.\\nThen Peter and John got some wine, and the\\nbread without leaven, and the bitter herbs, and had\\nthe lamb killed all ready for the evening.\\nWhen the evening came, Jesus and his disciples\\nreturned from Bethany, and went up into the room\\nwhere the supper was to be held.\\nBefore they began to eat their supper, Jesus rose\\nfrom his place at table, and took off his robe or\\nupper coat, and tied a towel round his waist after\\nthe fashion of a servant.\\nThen he took a jug and poured some water into\\na basin, and began to wash his disciples feet, and\\nto wipe them with the towel that was tied round\\nhis waist. This act of Jesus astonished the disciples\\nvery much.\\nThat their Divine Master, whom they loved and\\nreverenced so greatly, should do for them such a\\nlowly service, may well have surprised them. Still\\nthey held their tongues, and obeyed his wish by\\nallowing him to wash their feet. All but Peter", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "132 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nhe, with his usual hastiness, said, Lord, dost thou\\nwash my feet?\\nJesus said Yes, let me do it now, I will tell you\\nthe reason why by and by.\\nBut this did not satisfy Peter; he said, Thou\\nshalt never wash my feet.\\nJesus reproved his self-will by saying, If I do not\\nwash your feet, you cannot be mine.\\nThis was to teach Peter that every true disciple\\nmust give up his own will entirely to Christ s will,\\nand that it is Jesus who makes the heart clean.\\nPeter was frightened at the idea of having no\\npart in Christ, so he cried out: If it is so, Lord,\\nwash not my feet alone, but also my hands and my\\nhead.\\nNo, replied Jesus, that would be too much. He\\nthat has bathed does not need to be washed again,\\nexcepting his feet.\\nChrist meant that as Peter had, according to the\\nusual custom, bathed before coming to the supper,\\nhe was clean, excepting the dust that had come\\nupon his feet while walking along the road to the\\nhouse. This dust was what Jesus removed in wash-\\ning his feet. Then Peter let Jesus do what he\\nwished.\\nWhen Jesus had finished washing all the disciples\\nfeet, he laid aside the towel, and put on his robe\\nagain.\\nNow, he said I will tell you why I have done\\nthis. You call me your Master and Lord, and so\\nI am. If I, then, your Lord and Master, can do", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 133\\nkind and lowly acts of service for you, then you\\nought to be willing to be kind and loving to one\\nanother. Be humble and do not think yourselves\\nbetter than others. It is far better to wait upon and\\ndo good to others than it is to be served yourselves.\\nIf ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do\\nthem.\\nJesus, having washed his disciples feet, sat down\\nwith them to supper. As they were eating, Jesus\\ntalked to them. He seemed to be very sorry about\\nsomething.\\nWhat was it that troubled him so much? Was\\nit the thought of the cruel death he was about to\\ndie?\\nNo it was because he was sorry that Judas was\\nso wicked. He could hardly bear to think that any\\none who had been like a friend so long should be\\nso false as to be willing to give him up into the\\nhands of his enemies.\\nAt last he said out aloud: One of you, my dis-\\nciples, will betray me.\\nThen they all looked at one another, for they\\ncould not understand what Jesus meant. Judas\\nknew, for he was guilty, but the others did not\\nknow. They all felt very grieved to think that\\nany one of them could be so wicked as to give up\\nhis dear Master to those who wished to put him to\\ndeath. They wanted very much to know who it\\nwas that could do this wicked deed, but they did\\nnot like to ask Jesus. At last Peter whispered to\\nJohn, Do you ask Jesus who it is.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "134 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHBIST.\\nJohn was the best loved of all the disciples, and\\nhe was next to his Master at this supper.\\nYou must not suppose that people in those East-\\nern countries sat on chairs at their meals, as we do.\\nNo; they leaned on couches or sofas, which were\\nplaced round the table. They lay on one side, rest-\\ning their left arm on the table, and their feet were\\nturned out away from the table. Sometimes two,\\nor even three people, would lie upon one couch,\\nand so the head of one came near to the bosom\\nof him who was reclining above him on the same\\ncouch. It was John who was thus lying on Jesus\\nbreast now. He liked to be close to one whom he\\nloved so dearly, and he could speak many a lov-\\ning word as he lay thus in the bosom of his\\nMaster.\\nWhen Peter told John to ask Jesus who it was\\nthat should betray him, John whispered to Jesus,\\nLord, who is it?\\nJesus whispered to John It is he to whom I shall\\ngive the morsel of lamb, when I have dipped it in\\nthe sauce of bitter herbs.\\nIt was Judas turn to have the next morsel from\\nthe hands of Jesus. Then John knew that it was\\nJudas who would betray Christ. Judas had seen\\nthe whisperings, and his guilty conscience told him\\nthat his intended sin was found out. As the others\\nseemed sorry, he pretended to be sorry too, and\\nasked Jesus very softly, Master, is it I?\\nJesus answered, You have said rightly.\\nAs soon as he had eaten what Jesus gave him,", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 135\\nJesus said to him, Make haste, and do what you\\nmean to do.\\nThen Judas went away from the room out into\\nthe night.\\nThe disciples could not think what Jesus meant\\nby what he said to Judas. They thought, as Judas\\nkept the purse, that Jesus told him to go and buy\\nwhat they should want next day, or that he was to\\ngive some money to the poor.\\nJudas knew that Jesus meant, As you have made\\nup your mind to betray me, do so soon.\\nWhere did Judas go?\\nHe went to the Jewish Council, and said Jesus is\\nnow at supper with his disciples in Jerusalem. He\\nwill soon go from thence to the Mount of Olives.\\nThere is a garden there to which he often goes. I\\nknow the place well, and I will show it to you by\\nand by.\\nThen were they very glad, and promised to send\\nsome of their servants, and some Eoman soldiers,\\nwith Judas, to take him.\\nAs soon as Judas had left the room, Jesus said\\nI shall not be with you much longer. I shall want\\nyou to remember me when I am gone I shall not\\nlike you to forget me.\\nJesus broke one of the thin cakes of passover\\nbread into small pieces, and said Look at this\\nbroken bread my body will soon be broken on the\\ncross for you eat this, and think of me. Then he\\ngave thanks, and passed the bread round to them,\\nand they each ate one of the broken pieces.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "136 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nAfter that he poured out some red wine into a\\ncup, and said This wine is to remind you of my\\nblood, which is so soon going to be spilt for you\\ndrink it and think of me.\\nThis blood of mine is like a seal to a new agree-\\nment. Sacrifices need no more be offered, after my\\nbody is offered as a sacrifice for sin. The blood of\\nno more lambs need be shed, after my blood is shed\\nfor man s sin. After I am gone, when you eat\\nagain of this bread and wine, be sure you think of\\nme. Think of my love in dying for you, think how\\ngreat must man s sin be to need such a sacrifice as\\nlife.\\nThis is the last meal that I shall eat with you.\\nBe sure you love one another when I am gone\\naway, even as I have loved you.\\nPeter said: Lord, where are you going? Jesus\\nanswered I am going where you cannot follow me\\nat least, not now. Peter said: Lord, why cannot I\\nfollow you? I am willing to die for you.\\nJesus said All of you will forsake me; this very\\nnight you will be afraid, and run away, and leave\\nme alone with my enemies.\\nThen Peter began to boast, and said I am sure\\nI shall not leave you, even if all the others do. I\\nwill lay down my life for your sake.\\nJesus gently said: Will you lay down your life\\nfor my sake? Peter, Peter, before the cock crows\\nto-morrow morning, you will have said three times\\nthat you do not even know me.\\nPeter said, again and again, that he was quite", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "138 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nsure that Jesus was mistaken. So, too, all the dis-\\nciples said.\\nJesus then began to comfort his disciples. He\\nsaid Do not be troubled because I go away from\\nyou. I shall go back to my Father s house, and it\\nshall be your house too. I will get a place there\\nready for you. I know you will like to be where I\\nam, and so you shall be. I myself will come for\\nyou. Trust in me. While I have been with you\\nhere, you have been used to ask me for what you\\nwanted. You may still ask me, pray to me for\\nanything, when I am gone away from you.\\nBe sure to do as I tell you, for if you love me,\\nyou will keep my commandments.\\nI shall be very near to those who obey me, and\\nmy Father will be near too as close as if we lived\\nin the same house with them.\\nMy Father will send the Holy Spirit to you when\\nI am gone, and he will teach you many things that\\nyou do not understand now and after I am dead,\\nhe will help you to remember what I have taught\\nyou while I was with you.\\nThen Jesus gave them his blessing he said My\\npeace I give to you not such as the world gives,\\ngive I to you. It is a real, true peace, that the\\nworld knows nothing about; I give it only to my\\ndisciples.\\nJesus then said, Let us rise from the supper table,\\nand go away from this house; but he could not\\nleave off talking to and comforting his disciples.\\nHow very great was his love and care for others, if", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 139\\nhe could at such a time forget his own greater sor-\\nrow in the grief that he knew his disciples would\\nfeel when they found their Master roughly taken\\nfrom them. He prayed a last prayer with them,\\nand for them a beautiful prayer, in which he most\\nlovingly committed them to the care of his Heavenly\\nFather. They then sang a hymn, and went to the\\nMount of Olives.\\nCHAPTER XV\\nTHE AGOXY IN GETHSEMANE BETEAYED BY JUDAS JESUS\\nCAERIED BEFORE THE HIGH PRIEST\\nAt the bottom of the Mount of Olives was a gar-\\nden it was called Gethsemane. The name means\\nan oil-press; for most likely near there the oil was\\npressed out of the olives, ready for use.\\nThe garden itself probably consisted of a grove of\\nolive-trees; and in that grove, among those large\\ntrees, Jesus could pass many quiet hours unnoticed.\\nThe olive-tree is very tenacious of life, and will\\nlive to a great age. The tree is mentioned very\\nearly in Scripture. It was with an olive leaf in her\\nmouth that the dove returned to Noah, apprizing\\nhim thereby that the waters of the flood had abated.\\nIt is often mentioned as indicating plenty, prosper-\\nity, and strength.\\nWhen Jesus reached the garden, after his last\\nsupper with his disciples, it was about midnight.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "140 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHBIST.\\nThe full moon was shining brightly but softly, and\\nthe trees threw large dark shadows across the path.\\nThere were many quiet spots for prayer in this\\ngarden that was one reason why Jesus chose to go\\nto it so often.\\nNow this is his last visit to it, for his work on\\nearth is nearly done. He began this work by going\\nalone into the wilderness to pray; he prepares him-\\nself for its end by prayer too.\\nJesus said to his disciples I am going to pray I\\nwish you to stay here, while I go a little farther\\ninto the garden. Peter, James, and John, you\\nthree may come with me.\\nThey went a little farther in, and Jesus said to\\nthem I feel full of the greatest sorrow, it is like a\\nheavy weight, that almost crushes me to death. I\\nam going to pray, I want you to pray too. Then\\nJesus went a little way from them, and kneeled\\ndown under the shadow of an olive-tree and prayed.\\nGreat and bitter was the sorrow that filled his\\nsoul. He grieved over the rage of his enemies, and\\nover the blindness of the people, who would not see\\nin him their Saviour. He also shrank at the\\nthought of his coming death. Death came into the\\nworld through sin. Sin was the cause of all the\\nsuffering in the world, and he was now about to\\nfeel the punishment of sin for man s sake. The\\nreason of the great agony of Christ, no sinful man\\ncan understand. Because Jesus was holy, he felt,\\nas none of us can feel, the exceeding sinfulness of\\nsin.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "V\\n4 sS\\ng\\nit\\nTHE BETRAYAL BY JUDAS.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "142 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nThis was the chief cause of his present anguish\\nof spirit. He was now suffering for the world, and\\nthe burden seemed heavier than he could bear. It\\nwas like a bitter drink that he did not know how to\\ntake.\\nHe prayed: my Father, thou canst do all\\nthings; take away this cup from me; but if man-\\nkind can be saved in no other way ihan by my\\ndrinking it, I will drink it all. Let it be as thou\\nwilt, not as I will.\\nJesus then went to look at the three disciples;\\nthey were not praying they were not even awake\\nno, they were fast asleep.\\nJesus was grieved that they showed so little feel-\\ning for him in his time of trouble. He remembered\\nPeter s boasting and said to him What could you\\nnot watch with me one hour?\\nHe told ^hem all to keep awake and pray. Then\\nhe went away L hv second time and prayed again\\nO my Father, if *jhis cup may not pass from me\\nexcept I drink it, thy will be done.\\nAgain Jesus returned to the three disciples, and\\nagain they were fast asleep. He left them and\\nwent back to his place of prayer, and kneeling down\\nhe prayed yet more earnestly in the same words as\\nbefore.\\nThe conflict was over that sharp season of trial\\nin which his sweat was as drops of blood falling to\\nthe ground. An angel from heaven came to com-\\nfort and strengthen him. He was now quite ready\\nto offer himself as a sacrifice for the sins of the", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 143\\nworld. He know that this was the will of God\\nthe true end of the work that he came to do.\\nJesus now returned to Peter, James, and John,\\nand found them asleep again. He said You may\\nsleep on now; I will wake you no more to watch\\nand pray with me. Soon, however, your sleep will\\nbe rudely broken, for my enemies are near. Al-\\nready they are coming; arise, let us go hence.\\nA number of people now entered the garden.\\nThey were the servants of the Jewish council, with\\nsome Eoman soldiers, and Judas was among them.\\nThe soldiers had swords, and the other men had\\nheavy sticks. They had lanterns and torches, to\\nlook into the caves and corners, lest Jesus should\\nhide himself in them. They did not want them,\\nthough; for it was quite light with the full moon,\\nand Jesus would not run away and hide himself.\\nJudas had said to the men beforehand: Whoever\\nI kiss, he is the person that you are to take hold\\nhim fast.\\nThen he went up to Jesus and kissed him, and\\nsaid, Hail, Master!\\nJesus said, Why have you come here?\\nHe then went forward up to the men and did not\\nwait for them to find him out.\\nHe said, Who is it that you want?\\nJesus of Nazareth, they replied.\\nJesus said, I am he.\\nAs soon as he had said this, the men went back\\nand fell to the ground, struck by his calm, majestic\\nlook. The servants of the Jewish council must", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "144 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nhave known that he was a prophet, and the doer of\\nmany wonderful works hence their fear.\\nAgain Jesus asked, Whom seek ye?\\nAgain they answered, Jesus of Nazareth.\\nI have told you before that I am he. I will go\\nwith you, but I command you to let my disciples go\\naway.\\nHow thoughtful and unselfish was the love of\\nJesus, to care for the safety of his disciples in that\\ntime of danger to himself.\\nThey began to bind him, but they did not dare\\nto touch the disciples. Hasty Peter drew a sword,\\nintending to cut through the head of Malchus, who\\nwas the High Priest s servant, but the sword\\nslipped, so he only cut off his ear. Jesus at once\\ntouched his ear and made it quite well. It was the\\near of a man who was an enemy that Jesus healed.\\nHe forgave injuries, he did not revenge them.\\nHe turned to Peter and said: Put away your\\nsword. These men could not take me if I did not\\nwillingly give myself up to them. If I were to ask\\nmy Father, he would at once give me, instead of\\nyou twelve apostles, more than twelve legions of\\nangels.*\\nBut if I were to do so, how would the old writings\\ncome true, which say I am to suffer and die? It is\\nmy Father s wish, and my own wish too, to give\\nmyself up now.\\nWhile the men were binding Jesus fast, He said:\\nWhy do you come with swords to take me, as if I\\nA Roman legion was composed of six thousand men.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 145\\nwere a thief? When I was with you teaching in\\nthe temple, you did not try to take me. You\\nthought the people would not let you have me, but\\nthat j ou would be sure of me if you came when I\\nwas alone. But 3 r ou could not take me even now,\\nhad the time not come when God allowed you to\\ndo so.\\nThen all the disciples, when they saw Jesus thus\\nin the hands of his enemies, were afraid and ran\\naway, and left him quite alone. All, even boasting\\nPeter, fled.\\nThe soldiers led Jesus away to the house of the\\nHigh Priest.\\nPeter soon followed, for he wanted to see what\\nthe wicked men would do to Jesus. Another dis-\\nciple was with him, and this disciple was known to\\nthe High Priest. He spoke to the woman who\\nkept the door of the High Priest s house, and said\\nLet this friend of mine come into the house with\\nme.\\nSo Peter went into the hall. This was a square\\nyard or court, and the rooms of the house were built\\non the sides of the open space.\\nThe night was cold, so the servants made a fire\\nin the hall or court-yard, and Peter went to the fire\\nto warm himself.\\nPresently the woman who kept the door came to\\nthe fire too. She looked very hard at Peter, and\\nsaid Why, you are one of the disciples of Jesus of\\nGalilee!\\nPeter was frightened he did not want any one\\n10", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "146 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nto know that he belonged to Jesus, lest they should\\nkill him too. So he said before all the servants:\\nNo, I am not; I do not even know the man about\\nwhom you spoke.\\nPeter did not like to stay by the fire any longer\\nhe went into the passage between the court-yard\\nand the street door. Then, after a little while,\\nsome one else saw him and said Surely, you are\\none of the disciples of Jesus?\\nNo, said Peter, you are mistaken I am not.\\nPeter went again into the hall, and about an hour\\nafterwards some one said It is quite certain that\\nyou are one of this man s disciples. You talk like\\na man from Galilee; your speech is not like that of\\nthe men of Jerusalem.\\nThen one of the servants of the High Priest, who\\nwas a relation of the man whose ear Peter had cut\\noff, said Did I not see you in the garden with\\nJesus? Yes, I am sure I did.\\nPeter was now more frightened than ever. He\\nbegan to curse and swear, and say: I don t know\\nwhat you mean; I know nothing about the man.\\nThis was the third time that Peter had denied\\nthat he knew Jesus, and directly afterwards he\\nheard a cock crow.\\nThen Peter remembered how he had boasted to\\nhis Master that he loved him so dearly that he\\nwould die for him. He remembered, too, how\\nJesus had said that before the cock crew he would\\nhave said three times that he did not even know\\nhim.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 147\\nThe door of the room where Jesus stood bound\\nwas open, and Peter turned to look at him. Jesus\\nhad heard the cock crow too, and he turned and\\nlooked at Peter.\\nIt was such a look! It was so full of sorrowing\\nlove that Peter could not bear it. He went out of\\nthe hall at once and began to cry as if his heart\\nwould break. He really did love Jesus, and he felt\\nso sorry that, out of fear for himself, he had said\\nthat he did not even know him.\\nPeter showed that his sorrow was real, for he was\\nnever afraid to speak the truth after that. He\\nalways owned that he knew and loved Jesus and\\nmany years afterwards, he was willing to die for\\nChrist rather than give up preaching about him.\\nCHAPTER XVI\\nJESUS DELIVERED OVEK TO PILATE THE TRIAL BEFORE\\nPILATE HE SENDS HIM TO HEROD HEROD INSULTS HIM\\nAND SENDS HIM BACK TO PILATE JESUS AND BARABBAS\\nJESUS SCOURGED THE DEATH OF JUDAS\\nAs it was in the middle of the night that Jesus\\nwas taken prisoner, they could not bring him before\\nthe Jewish council until the early morning.\\nThe High Priest, however, during the night asked\\nhim many questions about his disciples, and about\\nhis teachings.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "148 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nJesus said You might have known if you had\\ncome to listen to me when I taught in the Jewish\\nplaces of worship, and in the temple, where all the\\nJews came to hear. Why do you ask me if I have\\nsaid anything wrong? Ask those who have heard\\nme whether I have said anything contrary to the\\ntruth.\\nThen one of the officers hit Jesus on the face, and\\nsaid Don t speak so to the High Priest.\\nJesus quietly said If I have spoken what was\\nwrong, prove it if not, you should not smite me.\\nAs soon as ever it was day the Chief Priests, and\\nScribes, and Pharisees met together in council, and\\nbrought Jesus before them, to ask him questions\\nbefore they condemned him to death.\\nMany wicked men came forward to say that they\\nhad heard Jesus teach w r hat was wrong. One,\\nhowever, said one thing, and another something\\nelse, so thej r contradicted each other, and their wit-\\nness against Jesus was of no use.\\nJesus stood quite still. When he heard all these\\nthings said of him, he did not get angry and say:\\nYou are telling untruths about me.\\nThen the High Priest stood up in the midst of the\\ncouncil, and said to Jesus: Do you hear what these\\nmen say about you? Why do you not tell us\\nwhether they are speaking truth or falsehood?\\nBut Jesus held his tongue and answered nothing.\\nThe High Priest then said I command you, in\\nthe name of the living God, to tell us whether you\\nare or are not the Son of God.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 149\\nThen Jesus said If I say I am it is of no use you\\nknow r ou do not mean to let me go free again.\\nSoon, however, you will see me prove that I am the\\nSon of God, for my kingdom will spread, and you\\ncannot hinder it.\\nAll of them said to him Then you really mean to\\nsay that you are the Son of God\\nI do, said Jesus; it is quite true.\\nThe High Priest rent his robes, to show his great\\nhorror that Jesus should have spoken what he\\ncalled blasphemy. To blaspheme is to speak irrev-\\nerently of God, and they thought that Jesus, whom\\nthey looked upon as only a poor man, did not speak\\nof God with reverence when he said that he was\\nGod s Son.\\nThey said We need not call any more witnesses\\nto tell us whether they have heard him teach wrong\\nthings, for we have heard him ourselves speak\\nagainst God, and pretending to be his Son. He\\nteaches falsely, and he must be put to death.\\nThe Jews, as I told you before, were conquered\\nby the Eomans, who did not allow them to put any\\none to death without their leave.\\nLess punishment than death the Jews might give\\nthemselves, but they did not want to send Jesus to\\nprison, nor to scourge him they wanted him to be\\nput to death.\\nThey said: We must take him to the Eoman\\nGovernor Pilate: what shall we tell him is his\\nfault? Pilate will never put him to death because\\nhe says that he is the Son of God for Pilate is a", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "150 A CHILD S LIFE OF CUBIST.\\nheathen, and does not care anything about our God.\\nWe must find out something else to say against\\nhim. They thought a little while, and then they\\nsaid: We will tell Pilate that he pretends to be a\\nking, that he tells the people not to pay taxes to the\\nBoman government, and that he goes about from\\none part of the country to another teaching the peo-\\nple to rebel against the emperor. Pilate will listen\\nto this story of treason against the government,\\nthough he will not care about false religious teach-\\ning. As soon as Pilate goes into the judgment-hall\\nin the morning we will take Jesus to him.\\nWhile they were thus talking, they gave up Jesus\\nto their servants, who ill-treated him.\\nThey covered over his eyes, so that he could not\\nsee; then they hit him, and said: You pretend to\\nbe the Son of God, and to know all things; if this\\nis true, you can tell us who it is that hits you,\\nthough you cannot see.\\nBut Jesus w T as calm and gentle, and spoke not a\\nsingle word. They spat upon his face, they beat\\nhim about, they laughed at him, and looked at him\\nwith eyes full of hatred. They were like wild beasts\\nbut Jesus was quiet as a lamb.\\nThe Chief Priests, and Scribes, and Pharisees\\nnow led Jesus to the judgment-hall to Pilate, that\\nhe might try Jesus as a prisoner and condemn him\\nto death.\\nThey would not go into the hall themselves, but\\nstood outside. They wanted to eat the Passover\\nthat evening, and they said that they should not be", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 151\\nable to do so, as they would be defiled if they\\nentered the house of a heathen. Just as if their\\nevil passions of hatred and anger did not make\\nthem more unclean and unfit for this religious ser-\\nvice than going into the house of a Eoman and a\\nheathen would do.\\nPilate, therefore, went outside the hall to speak\\nto the Jewish council. He said to them Why have\\nyou brought this man Jesus to me?\\nThey answered Should we have brought him to\\nyou, if he were not an evil-doer?\\nPilate said I have not heard of any disturbance\\nof the public peace caused by him; I expect that\\nou do not like him, and have brought him here\\nbecause you cannot agree with him on some point\\nof your religion. You had better settle this matter\\namong yourselves, so take him and judge him\\naccording to your own laws.\\nThis, however, did not suit the Jewish council.\\nThey replied The emperor will not let us put any\\none to death without your leave, and we want to\\nhave this man punished by death.\\nPilate then went back again into the judgment-\\nhall, and called Jesus to him to question him again.\\nAre you the king of the Jews?\\nJesus answered Do you ask me because you your-\\nself think that I am, or because my enemies tell you\\nthat lam?\\nPilate said I only repeat what your own nation\\nhave said to me. What have you done to make\\nthem say so?", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "152 A CHILD S LIFE OF CUEIST.\\nJesus answered I am a king, but not in the sense\\nin which you, a Roman, will understand me. My\\nkingdom will not interfere with the kings of earth.\\nIf my kingdom were of this world, then my ser-\\nvants would fight for me, as do the soldiers of\\nearthly kings for them and then the Jews would\\nnot have been able to take me and bring me before\\nyou.\\nThen you mean to say that you are a king? said\\nPilate.\\nYes, Jesus replied; I was born into the world\\nthat I might set up a kingdom in the souls of men.\\nAll that love truth, obey my laws and mind my\\nteaching.\\nLove truth! cried Pilate; what is truth? Is\\nthere such a thing?\\nBut Pilate did not wait for an answer. He cared\\nonly for the things of this world, such as riches,\\nand ease, and fame. He cared nothing for the\\nworld to come the world we cannot see nor for\\ntruth, and holiness, and God.\\nHe did not care to hear what truth was, but\\nwent outside the hall to the Jewish council. He\\nthought that Jesus was a verj r harmless man, with\\nsome strange notions on religion, but not guilty of\\ntrying to set up a kingdom to overthrow the Roman\\ngovernment. He therefore said, I can find no fault\\nwith this man Jesus.\\nThen they all cried out fiercely, some one thing\\nand some another, but all speaking against Jesus.\\nPilate turned to Jesus and said Do you hear all", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "THE CROWNING WITH THORNS.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "154 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nthese things that the people cry out against you?\\nWhat answer can you give to their charges?\\nBut Jesus never spoke a word, so that Pilate\\nwondered exceedingly.\\nThen they cried out again He misleads the people\\nfrom Galilee to Judea.\\nGalilee, did you say? asked Pilate.\\nYes, they said he was brought up at Nazareth\\nin Lower Galilee.\\nThen he belongs to a place of which Herod is the\\ngovernor; I will send Jesus to him.\\nSo Pilate sent Jesus to Herod, who was now come\\nup to Jerusalem to attend the Passover.\\nHerod had long wanted to see Jesus, and he was\\nvery glad that Pilate had sent him. He had heard\\nso much of the wonders that Jesus had done while\\nhe lived in Galilee that he was very curious to see\\nhim work some miracle now.\\nBut it was no part of the Saviour s work to\\nsatisfy a vain curiosity.\\nHerod did not want to learn the truth when he\\nasked Jesus about his teaching, so he answered none\\nof his idle questions.\\nThe Chief Priests and Scribes had followed Jesus\\nto Herod, and began loudly to complain of him.\\nWhat a difference between all their angry noise\\nand the Saviour s calmness!\\nHerod was vexed with Jesus, because he would\\nnot work a wonder just to please him, nor answer\\nany of his idle questions so he and his soldiers be-\\ngan to mock him. They threw a beautiful white", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 155\\nrobe over him, such as the Jewish kings wore, and\\nlaughed at him, and said: Are you a king? Thus\\nrobed, Herod sent him back to Pilate.\\nWhen Pilate saw Jesus brought back from\\nHerod, he called together the Jewish council and\\nsaid You have brought this man to me as a person\\nwho misleads the people. I have questioned him,\\nbut I can find no fault in him with regard to those\\nthings for which you blame him. I have sent him\\nto Herod, as you know, and he says, too, that he\\ncan see no reason why Jesus should be put to death.\\nI will therefore have him whipped, and let go.\\nYou know that I always release a prisoner to you\\nin honor of the feast of the Passover.\\nYes, they replied, do so now, according to custom.\\nI will, said Pilate; you know that there is a man,\\nnamed Barabbas, now in prison for robbery and\\nmurder. Choose, then, whom I shall let go free,\\nBarabbas, or he who is called your king.\\nThe Chief Priests had told the multitude to ask\\nfor Barabbas, so the vast crowd cried, as with the\\nvoice of one man: Away with this Jesus, and set\\nBarabbas free\\nPilate was a Eoman judge, he knew that it was\\nhis duty to punish the guilty and set free the inno-\\ncent. So he ought to have done what he knew to\\nbe right, and let Jesus go instead of listening to his\\nenemies. He had a great many soldiers, who could\\nsoon have sent all these wicked people away. Pilate\\nthought: If I do not please them, they will write to\\nthe Eoman emperor, and tell him of the many cruel", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "156 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nthings I have done to them, and then perhaps\\nCaesar will not let me be governor any longer, and\\nperhaps he will kill me. Pilate was afraid to do\\nright, and this wicked fear led him to the great\\ncrime of allowing the Saviour to be put to death.\\nPilate spoke again to the people: This man is\\ninnocent, but Barabbas is guilty, let Jesus go\\nfree.\\nThe only reply was: Crucify him, crucify him!\\nFor the third time Pilate said: I have found no\\nreason why he should be crucified, but I will have\\nhim whipped.\\nThat will not do! they cried. He is a false\\nprophet, he has deceived us, he must be crucified.\\nPilate found that all he said was useless, for the\\ncrowd became more and more noisy.\\nThen he called for some water, and washed his\\nhands before them all, and said I wash my hands,\\nto show you that I am innocent of the blood of this\\ngood man. If you will have him put to death, the\\nfault is yours.\\nThen all the people said If we put him to death\\nas an innocent man, let us and let our children bear\\nthe blame. We will answer for his blood.\\nWhat an awful speech! Not many years after\\nthey had crucified the Saviour the Eoman soldiers\\ncame and pulled down all the houses and streets of\\nJerusalem, and put many thousands of Jews to\\ndeath by crucifixion. The Jews ever since then\\nhave had no home in their own land, but have\\nwandered about living in strange countries.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "JESUS CARRIES THE CROSS.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "158 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nPilate now gave Jesus to the soldiers that they\\nmight scourge him. They took him away into the\\ncommon hall, and the whole band came together to\\nsee him scourged, and to mock him. They took off\\nhis robes, so as to lay bare his back, and whipped\\nhim with ropes tied in knots till the blood ran\\ndown, and his back was dreadfully cut and sore.\\nThen they put on him a cloak of purple or red, of\\nthe same color as the robes of the Eoman emperor.\\nThey then said: Our king must have a crown, so\\nthey twisted a thorny plant into a wreath, and put\\nit on his head.\\nOur king must have a sceptre, said they, mock-\\ningly so they took a reed and put it in his hands.\\nThen they bowed the knee before him, and said\\nwith rude laughter: king of the Jews!\\nThey mocked him, they beat him with their\\nhands, they spat upon his face, and took the sceptre\\nout of his hands to hit him on the head.\\nPilate now went out to the people, and said I\\nwill bring Jesus to you again.\\nThen he brought out Jesus, all bleeding as he\\nwas, dressed out with the purple cloak and crowned\\nwith thorns.\\nBehold the man he cried can you believe that\\nhe would wish to make himself king?\\nPilate hoped they would be sorry when they saw\\nhim looking so sad, with all the cruel marks of the\\nill-treatment of the soldiers. But, no, they had no\\npity. Jesus had pity for every one, but no one had\\npity on him.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 159\\nThey cried out fiercely Crucify him, crucify him\\nYou must crucify him yourselves, then, said\\nPilate, for I see no reason why I should do so.\\nThe Jews replied: The emperor wishes you to\\ngovern us by our own laws, and by our own laws\\nhe ought to die. He has spoken against God. He\\nsays that he is the Son of God.\\nPilate then was exceedingly afraid he asked\\nJesus: From whence then do you come? Are vou\\nthe Son of God?\\nHe might well think that there was something\\nGod-like in the prisoner before him.\\nNo man would have so meekly borne pain, and\\ninsult, and injury. He never defended himself\\nfrom the evil speaking of his enemies, and his ma-\\njestic calmness was in bright contrast to the haste,\\nand hate, and violence of his enemies.\\nTo the question, Are you the Son of God? Jesus\\ngave no reply. The worldly heathen Pilate could\\nnot understand in what sense he wished to be\\nthought the Son of God.\\nAgain Pilate wondered at his strange silence.\\nWhy do you not answer me? he asked. Do you\\nnot know that I have power to crucify you, or\\npower to set you free?\\nYou could have no power to take my life, replied\\nJesus, did not God will, for his own wise purpose,\\nthat I should die.\\nWhen Pilate heard this, he tried more earnestly\\nto save him, but the Jews cried out: If you let this\\nman go, you are not true to the Emperor Caesar;", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "160 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nfor whoever makes himself a king, as Jesus does,\\nis an enemy to Caesar.\\nThen Pilate sat down in the judgment-seat in the\\nouter paved court but before he gave him up to the\\nsoldiers he tried once more to save him.\\nHe said Look on your king.\\nThey cried with fearful madness: Away with\\nhim, away with him! crucify him, crucify him!\\nFor the last time, Pilate said: Shall I crucify\\nyour king? They said: We have no king but\\nCaesar.\\nThere was not a man there who did not hate the\\nvery name of the emperor, yet they cried out for\\nhim, because they hated the Saviour more. Pilate\\nsaw it was useless to speak to them again, so he\\nsaid to the soldiers: Take Jesus away and crucify\\nhim.\\nJudas, who betrayed Christ, heard Pilate sentence\\nJesus to death he saw him led away by the Eoman\\nsoldiers to be crucified.\\nHe felt very miserable and unhappy to think that\\nhe had told the Chief Priests where to find Jesus.\\nPerhaps he thought that Jesus would be sure to get\\naway from his enemies, as he knew that he could\\ndo anything; but now, when he saw him led away\\nto death, he could bear it no longer.\\nHe went to the Chief Priests and Elders, and\\nsaid I have brought back the thirty silver pieces; I\\ncannot keep this money, for it is the price of the\\nlife of an innocent man.\\nPilate, the judge, had said that Christ was inno-", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 161\\ncent; now the man who betrayed him said the\\nsame\\nThe Chief Priests ought to have sent after Jesus\\nat once to stop his death, and say that a mistake\\nhad been made.\\nBut these wicked men, when they heard what\\nJudas said, only replied It is nothing to us if he is\\ninnocent, we care only to have him killed.\\nThen Judas threw down the money on the floor;\\nhe had gained it in such a wicked way that he\\ndared not keep it.\\nThe Chief Priests took up the money, and said\\nWe must not use it for God s temple-service, be-\\ncause it is the price given for a man s life; we will\\nbuy some ground with it, to make a burying-place\\nfor strangers. So they bought a field with the\\nmoney.\\nJudas went away as soon as he had thrown down\\nthe money. He felt so full of misery that he went\\nand hanged himself.\\nI suppose he tied a rope round his neck, and then\\nfastened the other end of the rope to a tree. After-\\nwards the rope broke, and Judas fell down and his\\nbody burst. Such was the sad end of a covetous\\nman.\\nThe soul of Judas went to its own place, to that\\nplace in the unseen world for which his life h*ve\\nwould make him most fit.\\n11", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVII\\nTHE CRUCIFIXION AND DEATH OF JESUS\\nAfter Pilate had passed sentence on Jesus, the\\nsoldiers took off the clothes in which they had\\ndressed him up and put his own on him again.\\nThey led him out of Jerusalem to a little hill close\\nby, called Calvary. It was the place where evil-\\ndoers were put to death.\\nThey laid upon Jesus the cross to which they were\\ngoing to nail him, but after he had carried it a little\\nway he could bear it no longer. The cross was\\nheavy, and he was weak and faint.\\nYou know that, the evening before, he had gone\\nthrough that dreadful agony in the garden. Since\\nthen, his disciples had run away from him, Peter\\nhad denied him, the Jewish council had vexed him\\nwith questions, Pilate and Herod had tried him,\\ntheir servants had mocked him, and the soldiers had\\ncut his back with their heavy scourges, and crowned\\nhis head with thorns. He had had no sleep all\\nnight long; no wonder that his strength was gone.\\nThe very soldiers now took pity on him when\\nthey saw how weary he was, and they made a man\\nnamed Simon carry his cross for him.\\nAs they walked along a great many people went\\nwith them to see the crucifixion.\\nSome of them were very sorry for Jesus; there\\nwere women there who cried bitterly.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 163\\nIn all his suffering, Jesus ever had an ear for\\nthe sorrow of others. As he heard their cries he\\nturned round and said most kindly Do not cry for\\nme, cry for yourselves and for your children. Jesus\\nknew that very soon God would send a heavy woe\\nto the Jewish nation, because of their sins, espe-\\ncially that sin of putting him to death.\\nAt last they come to Calvary. Two thieves are\\nthere, to he crucified at the same time as Jesus\\none on his right hand, and one on his left.\\nThe soldiers offer Jesus wine, mixed with some-\\nthing to take away his senses, so that he may not\\nfeel the pain of dying. Jesus is burning with fever-\\nish thirst, so he takes the offered wine, but he will\\nnot drink it when he finds what is mixed with it.\\nHe wishes to know all that happens while he is dy-\\ning; he will not shrink from any of the pain.\\nThe soldiers take off nearly all his clothes, and\\nlift him up to the cross. They tie him to it first,\\nand they put nails into his tender hands and feet,\\nand hammer them into the wood of the cross.\\nThe sight of all this agony does not move his\\nenemies to pity; but even now, when Pilate has\\ngranted their wish, they cannot leave off mocking\\nhim.\\nSee! the lips of Jesus move in prayer. What\\ndoes he say? Father, punish my enemies for their\\ncruelty and wickedness? No! that is not what he\\nsays. The words are very wonderful, he prays:\\nFather, forgive them they know not what they do.\\nThe soldiers meanwhile divide his clothes among", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "164 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nthemselves; then they sit down and watch the\\ncross, the multitude standing around.\\nPilate had written on a piece of parchment, which\\nwas afterwards nailed on the cross, the reason why\\nJesus was put to death namely, because he said\\nhe was a king. He wrote it in three languages\\nHebrew, the tongue of the Jews Greek, the tongue\\nof the people who lived in Greece; and Latin, the\\ntongue of the Romans. This was done that every\\none might be able to read it in his own speech.\\nThe words Pilate wrote were these: This is Jesus\\nthe King of the Jews. The Chief Priests did not\\nlike this; they said to Pilate: Write, not the King\\nof the Jews, but that he said, I am the King of the\\nJews. But Pilate said I will not alter what I have\\nwritten.\\nThe people who read this parchment, as it there\\nhangs nailed over the head of the Saviour, laugh at\\nthe would-be king. Come down from the cross,\\nthey cry, if you are a king You who cured the\\nblind, you who healed the sick, you who raised the\\ndead, you who saved others, save yourself now!\\nAh, you cannot! If you are the Son of God, God\\nwill not leave you to die on the cross. Come down,\\nand we will believe on you.\\nSuppose Jesus had come down, suppose Jesus had\\nsaved himself why, then he could not have saved\\nthe world. He chose to die that sinners might live.\\nOn each side of Jesus is a cross a thief is nailed\\non each. One of them is grown so hardened in\\nwicked ways that he mocks at the Holy One beside", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "JESUS NAILED TO THE CROSS.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "166 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nhim. Yes, even in dying he cannot leave off scof-\\nfing. But the other one is sorry. He reproves the\\nmocker, and says: You and I hang on this cross as\\na punishment for our evil doings we deserve to die\\nbut Jesus has done nothing amiss. Then he turns\\nto Jesus, and says: Lord, remember me when thou\\ncomest into thy kingdom.\\nThe poor thief believed that Jesus was a Heavenly\\nking, though he was crucified like a sinner. Jesus\\nattends at once to his prayer, and promises him\\nbliss. He says: To-day you shall be with me in\\nParadise.\\nAt the foot of Christ s cross three women stand,\\nwatching with aching hearts the dying Saviour.\\nOne of them is Mary, the mother of Jesus.\\nThings that she had treasured up in her heart\\never since he was a baby she thinks of now. She\\nthinks of the angel s words, Hail, Mary, you are\\nmore blessed than any woman, when he came to\\ntell her that God would send her a baby who would\\nbe the Son of God.\\nShe remembers how the shepherds came to him\\nwhen he lay in the manger, and how they had heard\\nthe angels sing his cradle soug. She thinks of the\\nwise men who came a long, long journey to worship\\nthe Infant King. She thinks of his obedient, sin-\\nless boyhood, his constant love to her. She thinks\\nof him when he was grown up, how disease fled at\\nhis touch, how raging seas were calm at his word,\\nbow devils owned his power, how the grave gave up\\nits dead at his command. These thoughts pierced", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 167\\nher heart like swords. There he hangs dying a\\nshameful death. Oh, why?\\nMary understood the reason much better soon\\nafterwards, but her mother s heart is nearly break-\\ning now. The sight of her grief pains Jesus too.\\nHe sees close by him John, his best-loved disciple;\\nso he says to his mother, Behold your son and to\\nJohn, Behold your mother.\\nJohn knew what Jesus meant, and from that time\\nhe took Mary home with him, to live with him as\\nhis own mother. How full of love and thought for\\nothers was Jesus to the very last\\nWhat is this strange darkness, coming on at mid-\\nday, as if night were near? Why does the sun hide\\nhis light, as if he would not shine upon such an\\nawful deed as the crucifixion of the Son of God?\\nThe darkness deepens as the end draws near; for\\nthree hours the whole land is covered with gloom.\\nOne loud cry of agony now bursts from the lips\\nof the sufferer: My God, my God, why hast thou\\nforsaken me?\\nAll the meaning of those awful words we cannot\\ntell. Jesus felt that bitter sorrow that we might\\nnever know it.\\nBurning with thirst, the Saviour asks for a cool-\\ning drink. The soldiers offer him some of their own\\nwine. They fill a sponge with it and put it to his\\nlips. Jesus drinks it, and speaks for the last time.\\nThe words are no words of sorrow now, but of tri-\\numph. It is finished. Yes! the work he came\\ndown from Heaven to do is all done now.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "168 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nHe bows his head, he dies!\\nNow the earth quakes, the rocks are rent, the\\nveil in the Jewish temple, before the Holy of Holies\\nis rent asunder; old things are passed away.\\nIt was nine when Jesus was nailed to the cross;\\nit was three o clock in the afternoon when he died\\nthe very hour when the Jews began to kill the\\npassover lamb. Behold the Lamb of God\\nCHAPTER XVIII\\nTHE BURIAL OF JESUS THE WOMEN AT THE TOMB HE\\nIS RISEN APPEARS TO MARY MAGDALENE\\nIt was about three o clock on Friday afternoon\\nwhen Jesus died. The Jewish Sabbath began at\\nsunset that evening.\\nThe Jews said It is against our law to have any\\none hanging, either dead or dying, on the cross on\\na Sabbath-day we must bury the bodies of Jesus\\nand of the thieves before night.\\nThey went to Pilate, and said Will you bid your\\nsoldiers break the legs of those evil-doers so as to\\nkill them quite, that we may be able to bury them\\nbefore our Sabbath begins?\\nThen Pilate told his soldiers to do as the people\\nwished. They went to one thief; he was not dead,\\nso they broke his legs, and that killed him then", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "THE CRUCIFIXION.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "170 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nthey went to the other thief, and broke his legs, so\\nthat he died. They then went to Jesus, but he was\\ndead already, so they did not break his legs.\\nThen came true the old prophecy: A bone of\\nhim shall not be broken. The Jews never broke a\\nbone of their passover lamb, which, as I have before\\ntold you, was a type of Christ. This lamb was a\\nwhole sacrifice offered up to God.\\nBut though they did not break the legs of Jesus,\\n3 T et a soldier, to make quite sure that he was dead,\\npierced his side, and there came out of the wound\\nmade by the spear blood and water.\\nYou remember how the evening before, when\\nJesus sat at supper with his disciples, that he poured\\nout some wine and said Drink this, to remind you\\nof my blood which will be shed for your sins.\\nThe blood is shed now.\\nThe bodies of the thieves were taken down from\\ntheir crosses, and buried in a place set apart for\\nevil-doers. But the body of Jesus was not buried\\nthere. When he was alive, he gave his life for the\\nsin of the world; when he died, he died as a sinner,\\nfor sinners. His sacrifice is offered, God has ac-\\ncepted it now. He will no more be treated as an\\nevil-doer.\\nSeven hundred years before, the prophet Isaiah\\nsaid that when the Saviour came he would be put\\nto death with evil-doers, and be counted one of\\nthem, but that his grave would be that of a rich\\nman s. How this old prophecy came true I will tell\\nyou.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 171\\nIn the Jewish council there were one or two good\\nmen who loved Jesus, and would not consent to\\nwhat the others did when they wished to put him\\nto death. One of these was named Joseph of Ari-\\nmathea, and another Nicodemus, who once came to\\ntalk to Jesus by night.\\nJoseph was very rich, as well as good and just.\\nHe went to Pilate and said Will you give me the\\nbody of Jesus, so that I may bury it?\\nPilate said I should not think that he is dead yet,\\nfor people do not generally die so quickly as that\\nwhen they are crucified, but I will call the captain\\nof the soldiers and ask him.\\nThen Pilate asked: Is it true that Jesus of Naz-\\nareth is dead? Yes, he is quite dead, the captain\\nreplied.\\nThen you may have the body, said Pilate to\\nJoseph. So Joseph and his servants took down the\\nbody of Jesus from the cross very carefully. They\\nwashed off all the blood-stains from his brow, his\\nside, his hands, and his feet. Then Nicodemus\\ncame, with a large quantity of costly spices, which\\nsmelt very sweetly, to cover over the body of Je-\\nsus, so as to prevent its turning bad. Then they\\nwrapped it round with clean fine linen cloths, and\\ncarried it to Joseph s tomb.\\nThis tomb was in a garden. It was quite new;\\nno one had been buried in it before. It was cut out\\nof a rock. When they had laid the body of Jesus\\nin the tomb they rolled a very large stone to the\\nopening, so that no one could get in.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "172 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nSome women, who were friends of Jesus, had\\nwatched him when he hung upon the cross; now\\nthey watched where his body was laid. They said\\nto one another As soon as the Sabbath is over, we\\nwill come to the grave, and rub the body of Jesus\\nwith sweet ointment. Then they went home, to\\nget the things ready to make it.\\nThe enemies of Jesus did not like that he should\\nbe buried in such a sweet, quiet place, all by himself.\\nThey went to Pilate early the next morning, and\\nsaid Sir, that deceiver, Jesus, said when he was\\nalive, After three days I shall live again. Will you\\nlet us have some soldiers to guard the tomb for\\nthree days? for perhaps his disciples will come by\\nnight and steal away the body, and then say, He\\nhas risen from the dead. That deceit will be the\\nworst of all.\\nPilate said You may have a guard of soldiers,\\nso as to make all as safe as you can.\\nSo they went away, and set some Eoman soldiers\\nto watch the grave. They put the seal of the\\nEoman governor on the stone at the mouth of the\\ngrave. No one could now move it away without\\nbreaking the seal.\\nIf the disciples had come to the guard and said,\\nLet us have the body of Jesus, they would have re-\\nplied, No, you will break the seal if you move the\\nstone, and the governor would know it, and we\\nshould be punished.\\nOn Friday evening Jesus was laid in the quiet\\ngrave; all Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, he lay", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "THE ANGEL AT THE SEPULCHER.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "174 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nthere. The place was guarded well, by seal, by-\\nstone, by soldiers and bright angels watched within\\nthe tomb at the Saviour s head and feet.\\nAs they looked at that pale and silent face, they\\ncould see in it no sign of pain. All suffering from\\nmen, and for men, was past forever. The scourged\\nback, the wounded brow, the torn hands and feet,\\nthe pierced side do not hurt him now.\\nHe rests from this labor of redeeming men, as\\nGod rested from creating on the first Sabbath day,\\nthousands of years ago.\\nThe Sabbath that Jesus lay in the grave was no\\nrest-day for the broken-hearted disciples. They\\nwere filled with grief to think that their dear Master\\nwas dead. They had lived with him long, and loved\\nhim much. They could hardly believe that One\\nwhom they had seen work such wonders, and even\\nmake dead men live, should at last have to die\\nhimself. All their hopes are gone now that the\\nMaster is dead. There is no one to teach them now.\\nSoon, however, their sorrow will be turned into\\njoy. The dark night is passing away, and before\\nthe dawn of the morning of the first day of the\\nweek, Jesus will have left his grave.\\nJesus lay in the tomb from Friday evening until\\nSunday morning. Just before the break of day,\\nthere was a great earthqake. An angel of God\\ncame down from Heaven to the tomb of the Saviour.\\nHe broke the seal, he rolled away the stone from\\nthe opening of the grave and sat upon it. His face\\nwas bright as the lightning, his robes were pure and", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "A CHILD 9 S LIFE OF CHRIST. 175\\nwhite like snow. The soldiers dared not look at him,\\nthe} r shook with fright: they could no more move\\nto hinder the angel than if they were all dead men.\\nJesus left the tomb he was alive again even as\\nhe said he should be.\\nHis enemies could not keep him in the grave,\\nwhen he chose to take his life again. In vain had\\nthey sent a guard of brave soldiers to watch the\\ntomb; they were weak as dead men. In vain had\\nthey sealed the great stone that lay before the\\ngrave; they could not hinder God s angel from\\nrolling it away.\\nThe soldiers went to the Chief Priests, and told\\nthem what had happened. They told the Jewish\\nelders, and all of them said Do not tell any one\\nwhat you have told us here is a large sum of money\\nfor you to keep quiet and hush up the story. If\\nany one should ask questions, say the disciples came\\nin the night, and stole away the body when we\\nwere asleep. The soldiers did as they were bid;\\nthey took the money and told the lie.\\nAs soon as ever the sun rose, the women, who\\nhad been getting ready the sweet ointment to rub\\nthe body of Jesus, came with it to the grave.\\nAs they walked along they said: Whom shall we\\nget to move away the great stone that is rolled be-\\nfore the grave?\\nThey did not know that the enemies of Jesus had\\nsent some soldiers to hinder any one from moving\\naway the stone. The soldiers, however, were gone\\naway.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "176 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nAt last the women came to the grave, but the\\ngreat stone was rolled away\\nThen they went into the grave, but they did not\\nsee the body of Jesus. Somebody has stolen him\\naway they exclaimed with anxiety.\\nThen Mary of Magdala, who was one of the\\nwomen, ran away from the grave to tell Peter and\\nJohn. She said to them: They have taken away\\nthe Lord out of the grave, and we know not where\\nthey have laid him.\\nWhile Mary was gone, the other women stood\\nwondering at the empty grave.\\nAs they stood there, two bright angels in shining\\nrobes came to their side.\\nThe women, afraid, bowed down before them.\\nOne of the angels said: Do not fear; I know\\nyou are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He\\nis not here, he is risen, as he said. Come, see the\\nplace where the Lord lay. Do you not remember,\\nwhen he was teaching you in Galilee, how he said,\\nthat he must be given up into the hands of wicked\\nmen, who would crucify him, but that the third\\nday he should rise again\\nThen, when the angels reminded them, the\\nwomen remembered these words of Jesus.\\nNow, go quick]} 7 said the angels, and tell the\\ndisciples that the Lord has risen.\\nThen the women, with fear and joy, went as fast\\nas they could from the grave, to tell the disciples\\nwhat they had seen and heard.\\nAs they went along they met Jesus himself. He", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 177\\nspoke to them first, and then they worshipped him.\\nThey knelt at his feet and held him fast, in their\\njoy at once more seeing their Lord.\\nJesus said Go, tell my brethren that they shall\\nsee me soon, for I am risen from the dead.\\nThey then found the disciples, and told them the\\ngood news that Christ was risen. The news seemed\\nto the disciples too good to be true. They said It\\nis like an idle tale; we cannot believe you, you\\nmust be mistaken.\\nNow, while the women had gone to tell the rest\\nof the disciples, Peter and John, who, I suppose,\\nlived together in another part of Jerusalem from\\nwhere the rest lodged, went with Mary of Magdala\\nto see the grave.\\nJohn ran the fastest, and he reached the grave\\nfirst. He did not go into the grave he only looked\\nin, and saw nothing but the linen clothes. Then\\nPeter came up, and he went right into the grave.\\nHe saw no body, only the clothes neatly folded up.\\nThen John went into the grave too; he thought, if\\nany one had taken a way the dead body, they would\\nhave carried it away in the grave-clothes but here\\nthey were, not lying on the ground as if they had\\nfallen off, but neatly folded as if they had been\\ntaken off. He thought of what Jesus had said\\nabout his rising again, and he began to believe it\\nwas true.\\nPeter and John now went back to their own\\nhome, but Mary stayed by the empty grave, weep-\\ning. As she wept, she stooped down to look again\\n12", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "178 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\ninto the tomb, and she saw two angels, one sitting\\nat the head, the other at the feet, where the body\\nof Jesus had lain.\\nThey kindly asked her: Woman, why do you\\nweep? She answered: They have taken away my\\nLord, and I do not know where they have laid him.\\nHe, who always comforted the mourner, was\\nnear her now, but she knew it not.\\nShe turned round, when a man said to her:\\nWoman, why do you weep? What are you look-\\ning for?\\nShe thought he was the gardener, and said:\\nSir, if you have taken him out of the tomb, tell me\\nwhere you have laid him, and I will take him away.\\nThe man said: Mary! That one word was\\nenough she knew that tone so well. She turned\\nto him, and said: Master! Now her sorrow was\\nturned into joy.\\nHe said You must not think that you can keep\\nme on earth, for I shall soon go to Heaven, to be\\nwith my Father and your Father, with my God and\\nyour God. Go and tell my brethren this.\\nJesus had before told the other women to say to\\nthe disciples that he had risen from the dead; and,\\nlest they should think that he had returned to stay\\nwith them on earth always, he told Mary to say\\nthat he should soon leave them on earth to go up\\ninto Heaven.\\nMary then went to the disciples with the message\\nof Jesus, but they said We cannot think what\\nyou say is true; you must be mistaken.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST, 179\\nCHAPTER XX\\nJESUS APPEARS TO TWO DISCIPLES OX THEIR WALK TO\\nEMMAUS, AND TO THE OTHER DISCIPLES DOUBTING\\nTHOMAS BLESSES THE DISCIPLES AND TELLS THEM TO\\nPREACH THE GOSPEL\\nOn the afternoon of the day that Jesus left the\\ngrave, there were two men walking to the village\\nof Emraaus, which was a short distance from Jeru-\\nsalem. These men were the disciples of Jesus, but\\nwere not of the number of the twelve apostles.\\nAs they walked along, they talked of all the\\nstrange things that had happened in Jerusalem dur-\\ning the last few days.\\nWhile they were talking, a stranger came up to\\nthem and said May I know what it is that you\\nare talking about so earnestly? You seem to be\\nvery sad.\\nThey said We are talking about Jesus. Surely,\\nif you are only a stranger here, and have lodged in\\nJerusalem but one night, you must have heard\\nsomething of him, for every one is talking about him.\\nTell me something about him, said the strange\\nman. Then one of them began: Jesus of Naza-\\nreth was a wonderful prophet, and worked many\\nmiracles. No one ever spoke as he did, and his\\nteachings were not like those of the Scribes and\\nPharisees. Many people believed in him, but the\\nchief priests and our rulers hated him. They con-", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "180 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\ndemned him to death, and last Friday he was cru-\\ncified.\\nWe are very sad at this, because we hoped that\\nhe was the promised Saviour, but now we are\\nafraid that he is not.\\nIt is three days ago since he was put to death.\\nSome women whom we know went to his grave\\nthis morning, and said that they could not find his\\nbody. They told us, too, that they had seen two\\nangels, who said that he was alive! Peter and\\nJohn, two of his disciples, went to the grave too, and\\nthey found the grave empty as the women had said,\\nbut they did not see Jesus. All these things puz-\\nzle us very much; we do not know what to believe.\\nThe stranger said: Think over what your old\\nprophets have written, hundreds of years ago, about\\nChrist. Did they tell you that he would come as a\\ngreat king? No, they said, he would be meek and\\nlowly, that men would not own him, but would\\nthink meanly of him. They said he would be a\\nman of sorrows, and know well what it was to\\ngrieve.\\nThey told you, too, that Christ must suffer and\\ndie, for he came to be the Saviour, not of the Jews\\nalone, but of all the world. He was to save it by\\ndying for it.\\nDo you not remember that it is written He was\\nwounded for our sins, he was bruised for our iniqui-\\nties; by his stripes we are healed, and the Lord\\nhath laid on him the punishment of us all?\\nMany other things did the stranger say. He told", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "THE JOURNEY TO EMMAUS.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "182 A CHILD S LIFE OF CUBIST.\\nthem what Moses had written of Christ, fourteen\\nhundred years before; what David had said in the\\nPsalms of him, and how the prophets had told long\\nbeforehand of those things which had just hap-\\npened at Jerusalem.\\nSee how true all this is of Jesus of Nazareth, and\\nstill believe in him as the promised Christ. Do not\\nbe cast down because he was crucified, for it was\\nnecessary that he should suffer all these things, to\\nsave the world, before he entered into glory.\\nThe two friends listened very earnestly to the\\nstranger, and they began to understand the old\\nsacred writings in a new way.\\nThe road to Emmaus did not seem long to them,\\nthey were so interested in his talk. At last they\\nreached the village, and the stranger seemed as if\\nhe were going farther on.\\nOh, do not leave us, they said stay with us, for\\nthe day is nearly gone.\\nThey wanted to hear more of his gracious words,\\nfor they brought hope and comfort to their sorrow-\\ning hearts.\\nWhen they sat down to take some food, the\\nstranger took up a piece of bread. He asked a\\nblessing, and then gave the bread to the two men.\\nAll at once, by this well-remembered act, they knew\\nthe Lord. He was a stranger to them no longer,\\nfor often had he before thus given them food. It is\\nthe Lord they cried.\\nThey looked to where he sat, but the seat was\\nempty, the Lord was gone from their sight!", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 183\\nThey said to one another Did not his words make\\nour hearts very warm and glad, while he explained\\nthe Scriptures to us as we walked along the road?\\nIt is true that the Lord has risen from the dead.\\nThis news was too good to keep to themselves\\nthey longed to make others as glad as Jesus had\\nmade them.\\nThough the day was nearly gone, they went back\\nto Jerusalem that very hour, to tell the disciples\\nthat they had seen the Lord. They found them in\\na room, with the door locked, lest their enemies\\nshould come in and interrupt them. All the eleven\\nwere there, except Thomas. As soon as they had\\nlet the two friends into the room, they said to them:\\nJesus has risen from the dead some women have\\nseen him, and so has Peter. (How kind of Jesus to\\ngo to Peter before he went to any of the other\\napostles! Perhaps he said: I forgive you, Peter,\\nfor denying me.)\\nThen the two friends said, We have seen Jesus\\ntoo and they told them how sweetly he had talked\\nto them but that they thought he was a stranger,\\nuntil he gave them the bread.\\nWhile they were talking together, Jesus stood\\nbefore them, and said Peace be unto you. They\\nwere all very much frightened, for how could he\\nget into the room the door was locked? They\\nthought it was the spirit, not the body, of Jesus\\nthat they saw. Jesus had pity on their fears; so\\nto quiet them, he said Come and touch me, look\\nat my hands and my feet, for it is I myself. You", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "184 A CHILD 9 S LIFE OF CHBIST.\\ncannot see a spirit, as you can see me Then the\\ndisciples looked at his hands and his feet, and saw\\nthe mark where the nails had been. Still they could\\nhardly believe for joy and wonder.\\nJesus said: Have you anything here that you can\\ngive me to eat? They gave him some broiled fish\\nand some honeycomb, and Jesus ate them.\\nSo they believed that it was indeed the body of\\nJesus that was raised from the dead, and not his\\nspirit, that they saw. Then Jesus told them why\\nhe had died, and he said that when he was gone\\nback to heaven, they must go and teach everybody\\nwhat he had taught them.\\nThe same day at evening the risen Lord ap-\\npeared again to his disciples, who were assembled\\nwith closed doors for fear of the Jews. When the\\napostle Thomas, who was not present, w r as told of\\nthis, he said, Except I shall see in his hands the\\nprints of the nails, and put my finger into the prints\\nof the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I\\nwill not believe.\\nA week later, the disciples were again met to-\\ngether with closed doors, when Jesus appeared\\namong them. After blessing them, he called on\\nThomas to reach forth his finger, and put it in the\\nprint of the nails, and to thrust his hand into the\\nwound in his side, and to be not faithless, but be-\\nlieving. And Thomas said, My Lord and my God.\\nJesus said to him You believe, because you have\\nseen me; but blessed are those who believe even\\nthough they do not see.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "THE ASCENSION INTO HEAVEN.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "186 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nThen they went back to their old homes by the\\nSea of Galilee, and began to catch fish as they used\\nto do.\\nOne night Peter said I am going out fishing six\\nother disciples said We will go with you. So they\\nall got into a boat, and went out to sea.\\nAll night they threw their nets into the still\\nwater, but they did not catch a single fish.\\nWhen the morning came, they saw some one\\nstanding on the shore, but they could not tell who\\nit was.\\nHe called to them: Children, have you anything\\nto eat? No, they answered.\\nThe man said to them Put down your net on the\\nright side of the ship, you will find some fish there.\\nThey did so, and now the net was so full that\\nthey could hardly drag it along.\\nJohn said to the other disciples It is the Lord\\nPeter could not wait till the boat came to land,\\nbut he jumped into the water, and swam to Jesus.\\nJesus knew that they were tired and hungry with\\nworking all night, so with thoughtful love he had\\nsome food ready for them. They saw, when they\\ncame to land, a coal fire, some fish ready cooked,\\nand some bread.\\nJesus said: Bring here the fish that you have\\ncaught. Then Peter went to the boat, and drew\\nthe net out of it. How many fishes do you think\\nthere were in it A hundred and fifty-three but for\\nall that there were so many, the net did not break.\\nNow, said Jesus, come and take some food. He", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 187\\ngave them all some bread and fish, and helped them\\njust as he used to do.\\nWhen they had finished eating, Jesus said to\\nPeter: Do you love me, Peter, more than the rest\\nof my disciples?\\nHe said Yes, Lord, you know that I love you\\ndearly. Peter was humble now; he did not say\\nnow that he loved Jesus more than the others.\\nJesus said to him Feed my lambs.\\nAgain Jesus asked Peter, do you love me?\\nAgain Peter answered Yes, Lord, you know that\\nI love you dearly.\\nJesus said to him Feed my sheep.\\nFor the third time Jesus said to Peter: Do you\\nlove me dearly?\\nPeter was very grieved that Jesus should ask him\\nthree times if he loved him it seemed as if he did\\nnot believed him. So he said, very sorrowfully:\\nLord, you know all things, you know that I love you.\\nJesus said: Feed my sheep.\\nWhat did Jesus mean by telling Peter to feed his\\nlambs and sheep? He meant that Peter was to\\nshow his love by his actions, and that he was to\\nteach grown-up people and children about him, and\\ntell them of his great love in dying for them.\\nCan you think why Jesus asked Peter three times\\nover if he loved him? How many times did Peter\\nsay that he did not know Jesus? Three times?\\nYes. So Jesus wanted to hear Peter say that he\\nloved him for every time that he had said he did\\nnot know him.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "188 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nHow sorry Peter must have felt, how ashamed\\nand humbled! The love of Jesus in forgiving him\\nhad melted away his proud and boastful spirit.\\nThen Jesus told Peter that he knew that he loved\\nhim, and one day he should indeed lay down his life\\nfor his Master s sake. He said: Some wicked men\\nwill crucify you, because of your love to me. You\\nwill never again be afraid to tell people that you\\nknow and love me. And Peter never was.\\nAfter this Peter was one of the first to speak\\neverywhere the truth about Jesus. Christ crucified\\nfor man s sin, Christ risen and seated at God s\\nright hand in Heaven, was the good news he\\npreached without fear, even to the enemies of Jesus.\\nJesus said to the apostles: I want you, and all\\npeople who love me, to come and meet me on a\\nmountain in Galilee. I will tell you when. So\\nthey all met together at the time Jesus had told\\nthem to do so. There were more than five hundred\\nof them. Jesus came to these disciples and said:\\nYou will soon see me no more, but I shall always\\nbe near you, to help and comfort you.\\nGo everywhere, and teach every one the things\\nthat I have taught you. First of all, go to the\\npeople of Jerusalem. Tell them that I forgive them\\nfor putting me to death; that I died to save them.\\nWhen Jesus had talked some time with them, he\\nleft them. He did not live with his disciples as he\\nused to do before he died. He only came to ther\\nsometimes.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY GHOST.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "1M) A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nCHAPTER XXI\\nTHE ASCENSION INTO HEAVEN THE DESCENT OF THE\\nHOLY GHOST\\nThe apostles had now gone back to Jerusalem,\\nand they saw Jesus there.\\nIt was forty days since he rose from the dead,\\nwhen he led them out as far as Bethany, which\\nwas a village on the eastern slope of the Mount of\\nOlives.\\nJesus gave his parting words to his disciples, and\\nput his hands on them and blessed them. As he\\ndid so, a cloud came between him and them, and in\\nthat cloud Jesus was carried up into Heaven. So\\nthey saw him no more.\\nThey could not help looking up into the sky long\\nafter he was gone from their sight.\\nAs they gazed, two angels stood by their side, and\\nsaid: Why do you stand looking up into Heaven?\\nJesus has gone away from you now, but one day he\\nwill oome back again.\\nThen the disciples returned to Jerusalem.\\nThey were not sad now, as they had been when\\nhe died. No; they knew now why he had died;\\nthey knew that he had risen from the dead they\\nknew that he had gone back to his Father and their\\nFather, and that he was gone to get a home ready\\nfor them in Heaven, so that they might live with\\nhim there always.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST. 191\\nWhat did the angels mean by saying that Jesus\\nwould come again from Heaven in a cloud?\\nThey meant that one day he will come from\\nHeaven to judge the world. Every one will see\\nhim then. At his voice every grave will open, and\\never} 7 dead body will live again.\\nOur Lord had told the apostles that though he\\nwas going to Heaven, he would send them another\\nComforter, who would be with them for ever, and\\nin whom he himself should be present with them\\neven God the Holy Ghost, who is one with God the\\nFather and God the Son.\\nTen days after came the Feast of Pentecost, and\\non the first day of this feast the disciples were all\\ntogether in a large public room in Jerusalem, when\\nsuddenly there came a sound from the skies as of\\na storm of rushing wind, and it seemed to fill the\\nplace where they were sitting, and they saw what\\nlooked like flaming tongues of fire dividing up\\namong them, and resting on each of them. And\\nas they sat there in awe-struck silence, they were\\nall filled with the Holy Spirit, and one after another\\nthey began to speak in strange tongues, and were\\nfull of great joy and enthusiasm, and praised and\\nthanked God for his gift. The most timid of the\\napostolic band was now ready to face the Sanhe-\\ndrim, or the Eoman authorities, charge upon them\\nthe murder of Jesus, and defy their power. To the\\nmultitudes who thronged the Jewish capital they\\npreached boldly the crucified and risen Christ, and\\nurged them to repent and believe on him. And", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "192 A CHILD S LIFE OF CHRIST.\\nmany believed and were baptized, and joined the\\ndisciples as followers of Jesus.\\nThe lessons of Christ s beautiful life are briefly\\nthese: That, however pure and amiable are our\\nnatural dispositions, we need to be taught of Christ,\\nand to be regenerated by the Holy Spirit, before we\\ncan do our Master s work effectively.\\nThat, since Jesus hath loved us and given himself\\nfor us, the only measure of our love for him should\\nbe his love for us and that the nearer we attain to\\na perfect and all-absorbing love for him, the fewer\\nwill be the clouds and doubts over our pathway,\\nand the more perfect and complete our peace and\\njoy.\\nThat it is only to those who, by long and constant\\ntrust in Jesus, have won this peace which passeth\\nall understanding, that the heavens are opened and\\nthey are permitted to know the blessedness of the\\nredeemed in glory, while they are still within this\\nearthly tabernacle. God has promised: He that\\novercometh shall inherit all things; and I will be\\nhis God, and he shall be my son.\\nMay God give to each of the readers of this book\\ngrace thus to overcome.", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "Deacidified using the Bookkeeper process.\\nNeutralizing agent: Magnesium Oxide\\nTreatment Date: July 2005\\nPreservationTechnologies\\nA WORLD LEADER IN PAPER PRESERVATION\\n1 1 1 Thomson Park Drive\\nCranberry Township. PA 16066\\n(724) 779-21 1 1", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4049", "width": "2892", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n014 226 537\\nr", "height": "4236", "width": "3053", "jp2-path": "childslifeofchri00newy_0200.jp2"}}